Since I'm looking at adding another 1/18th scale machine (possibly another ECX Smash) for my oldest son to tinker with, I've been keeping an eye out for lower-cost vehicles that can take a little punishment. After seeing how "my" Smash has held up to some, ahem, student driving, I'm excited to see the news that […]
Great perspective from a fellow newbie on what makes an R/C crawler tick. If you're at-all interested in this type of machine, I encourage you to check these posts out. The author has written seven articles so far and it looks like he's planning on doing 12 total. Well worth the read. Anatomy of a […]
In the last week, the main topic of conversation between my oldest son and I has been rc cars. Since I've turned him loose with the Smash, he's been “all in” on learning about these cars. Alas, he learned quickly that these can be fickle machines. A few minutes into a family bashing session this […]
As mentioned on the latest podcast episode, we'll begin posting weekly pre-owned findings from around the online world. The hope is to give people a chance to see if they can get into the hobby and save some money at the same time. If you're already firmly planted in the radio-controlled world and are looking […]
Over-accumulation. It happens in every hobby. Josh and I discuss how we prefer to make room in our R/C garages, where you can look to get deals on used R/C equipment, and we also trade RS10 rock crawler stories. All this and much more in the latest episode of the RC Newb podcast!
