Anyone into R/C?

Was really into them when I was a kid, only had electric ones though. Had a little Jeep Wrangler that I just loved, had that thing for years. It wasn't very big but was a lot of fun, had rechargeable batteries (something that seems hard to find today) and I remember it took 4 hours to charge the battery and it seemed like ages. I wanted to play with it all the time, finally some years later the gears in the motor stripped and it was all she wrote. I still have it, kept it for a keepsake due to it's sentimentality. Here's a few pics of it, you can tell it has been used, corners of the bumper are all beat off and whatnot. It used to have lights on top that got busted off in many of the bad rollovers it's been in. Tough old Jeep, it survived lots of years of hard use. I wish I could rebuild it and use it again, but I wouldn't even have the slightest clue where to find parts for something this old. I was only like 7 when I got it and am 20 now. Had a few other R/C's but this is the one that I am most sentimental about.

 

Well i just ordered this 1/18 madbeast, wanted a 1/8 version for awhile but didnt wanna spend that kinda cash on it. The 1/18 version comes rtr with a 2s lipo and charger and a 2.4 radio, just add the aa's for the tx, all that for $82 shipped Figured why not try it..

http://www.nitrorcx.com/03c101-mini-madbeast-blackred-rtr.html

 

Nice!

my 1/10 exceed mad crawler just came in the mail today. UPS lost the package for a week and a half

awesome crawler. sucks down batteries with the dual motors, but i can get some decent sessions in with the 7cell nimh i cut down to 6 cell to fit the tray properly.

curious how the mad beast performs. looking forward to hearing about it.

 

take the body off it and put it on a new r/c chassis.
what scale was it?

 

I raced on Saturday and I took first in 17.5 buggy. took 2nd in Stadium truck but get this, my radio batteries died half way through the race so I had one 70 second lap (a normal lap is about 20.5) I still worked my way back up into 2nd.

 

what would be a good electric starter truggy/short course starter rc truck for my gf, i want it to have a little speed so when i wanna play with it I can have some fun, but nothing too crazy for her.something around $150-200 at most.

 

Best one on that budget is just over $200, Traxxas Slash:

http://www.amainhobbies.com/product...-10-Scale-RTR-Electric-2WD-Short-Course-Truck

 

Fixed my SuperVee 27R last week.. cant wait for the ice to melt.

 

mad crawler is a fun little truck. only complaint so far is the turning radius sucks, but that was expected with full time locked diffs. already putting parts together for 4-wheel steer. truck already comes with the servo plate and steerable knuckles

i hope i never have to talk about water like that in reference to a boat. too cold for me

i've been looking at a boat though. i feel like it's a waste to have a lake in my back yard and no rc boat. how do you like the 27r from a size standpoint? handle's the chop pretty well?

 

a bit windy but here is the video of my win

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJmA9ch3l3Y

 

In the chop its terrible. Lake pretty much has to be glass for it to be able to run full speed. If I bought another boat, Id go for a Catamaran. Its a lot of fun though, when the conditions are right.

 

I live in florida, so i have a smaller calm lake behind my house, a river a mile away, and the ocean 4 miles away, so while the lake is always calm, i think i'm looking for something that can handle chop. does it flip and become uncontrollable when it's choppy, or just not have the power for chop?

 

Flips.. will also jump off the waves and dive. I think a cat would be a lot more stable. Its definitely powerful enough.

 

cool, i'll ad cats to my search. thanks

 

I think it's 1:24 scale but not sure, will look at it and see if it says so anywhere on it.
EDIT: Found out it's a 1:20 scale. I found a similar Jeep on eBay, same thing actually but different color. If it is a rechargeable model, I will probably buy it and swap bodies.

 

good job lady.

whats up with all those noobs parking at the end of the straight and shit? lol

 

I'd love to know that myself lol the other orange buggy and the purple buggy need to be in novice still.. they're doing like 14-15 laps and the winner will get 17-18 laps

 

For a rtr cat, i highly recommend a aquacraft motley crew, for a mono i say the revolt 30.

Iv had a spartan, impulse 31, mystic 29, miss geico, plus some others and aquacraft imo has a very nice rtr line up.

 

Thank you as always!

 

curious to ask, is anyone interested in the sc8.2e rtr? my buddies trying to get rid of his since he got a different car.