It's been a minute! Actually it's been almost a year 😓 Remember how I said I saved $300 on a G500? I've reduced that savings by half by purchasing another 1/24 scale Tetra X3. Am I a glutton for punishment? Probably. I really wanted to love this rig, but there were some disappointments I couldn't get past. PandaHobby did listen to all of the feedback and shortly after the X3 … [Read More...]
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PandaHobby Tetra X3 1/24 scale crawler
I saved $300 on a portal-axle G500 crawler! Or did I? I was at Hub Hobby, my local hobby shop, getting some body posts for the LaTrax Prerunner after they … [Read More...]
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RCX Expo 2022
I had an opportunity to attend RCX with my kids as it was during spring break. My expectations were set from a 2016 video by RC Sparks: … [Read More...]
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LaTrax Servo Replacement
At our last outing to the frozen lake ice track, the stock servo in the LaTrax Prerunner finally gave up the ghost 👻 I figured it was a matter of time as I've replaced the included servos in all of our other ready-to-run vehicles: Slash & SCX24. I had a … [Read More...]
1/18 scale studded tires
Rather than making a snow track in the back yard this year, I decided to venture out and try some ice racing on a lake. There's a group called MN R/C rally, rallycross and ice racers on Facebook and they create and maintain an ice track on Pickerel Lake in St. … [Read More...]
Garden Railway Track Work Part 3 – Paint and Ballast
Racing against incoming snow in 2021, I was working to get the track work (including ballast) down before it was buried for 4 months. The last step was to finish painting and add ballast over the top. The tracks were already covered with a silvery-gray … [Read More...]