Quote from thisnameistaken :

Knowing my luck it would be a child decapitator. At least with an R/C plane if something fails (apart from the radio link I suppose) you can probably crash it away from peoples children quite easily. If a blade goes wonky on a helicopter it's going to still be spinning at insane-o-speed even if it takes five minutes of careening around before it finds someone's face.

Dunno... They just look way too dangerous to me.

Edit: I did see a guy once using one to blow leaves off his lawn - some commercial pilot dude who lived across the street from my girlfriend at the time.

Well it's the same with real life. In a plane if say the engine falls off, you can glide it down to earth and try and find a field away from people. But in a chopper, you're just coming down and unless you try and use an ejector seat (keke), you're a dead man. Just sort of scream run for your life and cross your fingers. A little like golf really.

But planes can be deadly, you just need to watch Short Circuit 2 to see why. xD

if youre good you can still make a safe autorotation landing

Quote from Shotglass :

ah yea the good old days
back then i had my good old grasshopper with a sport tuned and a friend of mine had a tamiya f102 ... needless to say i couldnt keep up with him
but im sure i would have been able with the yokomo gear we put into the gfrasshopper for funsies once (lrp x motor with ipc and sanyo 2000s)

Cool I should have kept the Grasshoppers really, would have been awesome to put the decent stuff from my Tamiya in that thing! As it was it had barely enough oomph to do donuts on try tarmac. You had to find a spot where it was wet :P

Thought I'd show off my freshly painted (and already damaged, stupid wall >.<) Escort. The paint job is the same one I use in LFS for all the cars (that I've done it for anyway), and the number box also advertises LFS (I should get paid or something ).

Anyway:



I already want to repaint it, I made a few mistakes (though you can't really see them thanks to the low quality of my PDA camera) and it's bugging me that they are there.

Nice Shell,

Always Loved the Cossie Shells,

Looks Mint Mate even if a Few Mistakes hear and there never notice after a Few Mins Running,

Well if it was me Driving anyway,

That is very true. When I'm running it you cannot see the mistakes, but when I don't use it and put it on display they are there. :/

And because I get really bored at uni (hence why I got this R/C):

Linkage. My Xda IIi strapped to the front of the car works wonders, can't wait for my pinhole wireless camera to get here <3

Quote from mrodgers :

That's cool. I've been having an itch to learn to fly RC. Especially since the 5 yr old loves airplanes and I thought it would be cool go get one and I have the yard for it (nice and big).

I wrote that back in post 3 or so in response to someone else stating that they wanted to or do fly RC. Well, I picked up a little ole RTF plane about a month ago. Flying RC is WAY cooler than running on the ground (I did the racing thing back in the early 90's). I'm having a blast with the thing, though lately the windy conditions are killing my flying time. Can't wait til spring now when I pick up something a little faster and more aerobatic than my pusher prop trainer.

Heh Mike, My father owns a hobby shop here in our basement. I can pretty much get any plane I want for myself, its pretty neat, especially some of the newer electric things coming in.

I used to drive a 1:8 nitro buggy about 15 years ago, i still have it. Recently i started again but now i drive a 1:6 FG MonsterTruck. After buying the FG i discoverd MCD RC cars and are thinking i should have better bought one of these

Quote from dawesdust_12 :

Heh Mike, My father owns a hobby shop here in our basement. I can pretty much get any plane I want for myself, its pretty neat, especially some of the newer electric things coming in.

Hey guys! LFS RC discounts at Dawesdust's ole man's place!!!!! Please send me a GWS E-Starter, Spectrum DX6 w/ reciever, a couple of microservos, and a BL-21 brushless with matching ESC please!!! Oh, and a nice charger and a couple of Lipo batteries. $20 check is in the mail .

lol, is it bad that:
1) I know what most of that is
2) I think most of that stuff is about... 30 feet away from me right now
3) ??????
4) Profit!! :hide:

Hiya I got Savage SS whivch i alway fix but damn goood fun its in RWD now good fun on bmx track,

i got a tamiya M-03 mini cooper

i would like to find outdoor track in MK or around it.

jay

I learnt that using RTR R/C's is easier. I took my lil Escort outside for a blast around the minicarpark. Wet surface and covered in a light gravel. I've spent the last four hours cleaning the gravel out of it, and I also had to make a redneck repair.

The tub had some worn screw holes for the front diff housing (was like this out of the box, but it's too much hassel sending stuff back), so the screws that go into said holes just slide back out, which means that those screws fell out when I was trashing it about and the front diff house came open (as such got filled with gravel and water, not fun). So I double sided sticky taped the box, put some double sided tape on the screws (which have stuck rather well) and used a couple tie-wraps to keep it all in place. Seems to be holding up.

With RTR however, I could have just trashed it about, bring it inside and chuck it under my bed and charge the battery for next time. That said this lil Escort o' mine is way too much fun. Even if power is lost through the rims spinning in the tyres (remind me to buy some tyre glue), it was still a blast to throw about. Can't wait for my pinhole camera to show up so I can get some onboard footage of it

Got a Traxxas Revo 3.3 this tuesday. My first proper RC.

Offroad R/C's always look so silly. They do the job, but why do they have to do it and look daft. Needs to be more "normal" looking offroad R/C's.

Quote from dawesdust_12 :

lol, is it bad that:
1) I know what most of that is
2) I think most of that stuff is about... 30 feet away from me right now
3) ??????
4) Profit!! :hide:

1. No, it's not bad, your dad runs a hobby shop for crying out loud.
2. Same answer since you said it is in the basement.
3. ??????
4. Profit? All you have to do is sneak down in the dead of night, box it up, sneak it out later and send it. I'll send you $20. Pure profit for ya

@Matrixi, very nice. That thing's gotta rip. My bro-in-law has a 2.5 Revo and it rips. Until I pass over him with my plane and drop some BIG firecrackers from the bombdrop module, :hbomb: hehe.

@dawesdust_12: Nice South Park reference. Not a huge fan of the show but some of the episodes are pretty funny. (i.e. the WoW one)

Cen fun factor rally:






Thought I had other pics but I don't.

Currently needs:
Clutch
Driveshaft thing
A screw for the servo

It's winter though so I'm not fixing it,don't really want to stand outside in the freezing cold while kids from all over the neighbourhood come and watch me.
It's crazy,everytime I take the car out they just seem to appear and start jumping out infront of it.
Really annoying!

So what really happened to that cooper? O.o

Quote from Stew2000 :

So what really happened to that cooper? O.o

It was my first shell so naturally it got a bit wrecked.
The I decided to try the car in a field but the bumper was catching in the grass and making the car stop,so I cut the front off it.



Edit,more pics:

Quote from GlanzaGav :

It's winter though so I'm not fixing it,don't really want to stand outside in the freezing cold while kids from all over the neighbourhood come and watch me.
It's crazy,everytime I take the car out they just seem to appear and start jumping out infront of it.

Haha, this same thing happened to me when I was breaking in my Revo the first time at front of our yard. First there was one kid on a bike, then there was two kids, then five kids staring at my new RC.

I had to stop driving and take a break to get rid of them. :P

Oh, here's a short vid of my Revo. Still had break-in carburator settings on the car, so it might sound and look a bit sluggish. http://nismo.1g.fi/temp/revo2.avi

i owned a few tamiya RC's as kid..my favorite being the Clod Buster
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi ... n/8/86/Clodbuster0001.jpg

And i would love to have a RC plane, sadly it's forbidden to fly them in almost the whole of Belgium
Something like this would be huge fun.
http://video.google.fr/videopl ... 947353453839215&hl=fr
Although i wonder how long it will take before RC planes get forbidden by the US DOD (risk of being used as a remote surveillance tool, or maybe someone will even tape some semtex to a plane and fly it into a US officers quarters? :s )

edit :dyslexia got the upperhand in some words

I used to be pretty heavy into touring cars. Raced asphalt in the summers and carpet during the cold months.

My first was a TC3 racer which I upgraded quite a bit to lose weight and stiffen the chassis.

Later I moved up to the Factory team and transferred whatever mods that made sense. That car felt much more substantial than the previous, but because of the mileage on the old Racer model, it felt like it rolled smoother. My track always ran stock motors, but I would keep a 13 turn in my backup car so that I could have fun in practice sessions.

I abandoned the hobby when I wan old enough to take my real car to the track.

Quote from PAracer :

I abandoned the hobby when I wan old enough to take my real car to the track.

I don't think I'll be doing track days in my car for a few more years yet
My closest are Goodwood and Brands Hatch

A friend of mine is big into R/C racing, lastnight he managed to convince me to start racing them next season! lol!
I bought a car (Serpent 720 1/10th Nitro Touring Car: http://www.mytsn.com/products/product.asp?prid=4334)
I need to buy an engine and Radio gear next. Any recommendations? I dont like the radios with the mini wheel on them, i prefere the sticks!

I'm just looking for some tips in general, anything i should look out for etc...?