Stormbringer Posted June 16 Share Posted June 16 A right rust bucket 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimplyChunk Posted June 17 Share Posted June 17 5 hours ago, steephill said: Looks a right rusty pile of junk. another great tool for a weathered/old look is Citadels Nuln Oil. You can pick it up at a local games workshop or online. It dries looking like wet oil. I learned about it watching BareMetalHW on YouTube. He makes hot wheels cars look amazing btw. I've had a bottle for a while and @Skyesgaming and I are planning on using some on our models in September 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tug Posted June 18 Share Posted June 18 Took the Super SC5 out, it threw the pinion. Refitted that, then decided to swap the perished tyres that are on 17mm hexes for the original tyres on 24mm hexes. What followed was an immense amount of bodgery that may work, but it's not finished and quite possibly won't work when it is finished. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimplyChunk Posted June 19 Share Posted June 19 6 hours ago, Tug said: Took the Super SC5 out, it threw the pinion. Refitted that, then decided to swap the perished tyres that are on 17mm hexes for the original tyres on 24mm hexes. What followed was an immense amount of bodgery that may work, but it's not finished and quite possibly won't work when it is finished. The pinion being thrown is what bent the chassis on my BX-8E. It just free wheeled straight in to the tyre of my 1:1 car Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Kpowell911 Posted June 19 Popular Post Share Posted June 19 Not today but Sunday. Fathers Day. My daughter woke me up at 5am, so I took her into the spare room to give her Mum a well deserved rest. I Introduced her to the TRX4M and initial results are promising for her being an RC fan. She enjoyed watching it move, and even laughed at it crawling over her foot. She did seem more interested in the controller mind. She could definately work out that the controller was the thing making the blue thing move. PS she did smile honest 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormbringer Posted June 19 Share Posted June 19 A wee darling 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Rustic Ade Posted June 19 Popular Post Share Posted June 19 Daughters are awesome but you are now not your own man, you are her puppet 🤣 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post steephill Posted June 20 Popular Post Share Posted June 20 Fitted new Injora S5 compound pin tyres and soft silicone inserts. The other Injora pin tyres have been brilliant. So hopefully these are that bit better 🤞. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrCake Posted June 20 Share Posted June 20 Spent the evening repairing my nephew's Maverick. Not the nicest of cars to work on compared to things from my own stable and there was plenty of swearing but got there in the end. Loss of rwd caused by a sheared centre drive. Totally clean break and it looks like the replacement part is 'HD' so assume this is a known weakness. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Partydaz Posted June 21 Popular Post Share Posted June 21 Roll up....roll up lady's and gentlemen place your bets on if this traxxas servo will survive 7.2v 😅. The stock servo is literally throwing a wobbly jittering all over the place so found this in the parts bin. Got a little jump set up and going send it very lightly in the back garden to test it out 😆 ( Cat pic is because he was being nosey and begged me to take a picture ) 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormbringer Posted June 21 Share Posted June 21 Braw cat mate 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wombat Posted June 21 Share Posted June 21 On 20/06/2024 at 15:42, steephill said: Fitted new Injora S5 compound pin tyres and soft silicone inserts. The other Injora pin tyres have been brilliant. So hopefully these are that bit better 🤞. have not noticed them yet, will have to have a look. Got the origional injora pins and am well impressed. I am using them with the supplied foams, so looking forwards to your thoughts on them. I like the tread markings on the wall of those, as found with the origional pins i had to change my crawling style due to the total lack of sidewall tread 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steephill Posted June 22 Share Posted June 22 11 hours ago, wombat said: have not noticed them yet, will have to have a look. Got the origional injora pins and am well impressed. I am using them with the supplied foams, so looking forwards to your thoughts on them. I like the tread markings on the wall of those, as found with the origional pins i had to change my crawling style due to the total lack of sidewall tread I gave them a go yesterday before it started raining I use the pin tyres on my rhino with vented rims and the inserts are a huge improvement for side hills. The Rhino is quite heavy so the stock foams on a vented rim are way too soft. I run the pin tyres on one of my lcg rigs with an non vented rim, that works alright because it's a light truck. So far I'm impressed, but I need to do more testing, if it stops bloody raining. For 15 quid a set they're very good value. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post MrCake Posted June 23 Popular Post Share Posted June 23 Hiked 20 minutes up into the woodland that I like to use for RC as it is quiet. Got to my spot and realised the batteries were at home. Sat on a log swearing for a bit before heading back down to the car and going home. I surprised myself though and the want of needing some RC was stronger than I realised so got the batteries and headed straight back out and up into the woods again! 2 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post wolfie1 Posted June 23 Popular Post Share Posted June 23 Its a totally lovely day here today so put the drone up and ran 4 sets of batteries through it, took an aerial photo of our house and the bit of land we are buying from the farmer (the bit thats cut, it took me 50 minutes with the mower to cut all that!) 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rustic Ade Posted June 23 Share Posted June 23 7 hours ago, wolfie1 said: Its a totally lovely day here today so put the drone up and ran 4 sets of batteries through it, took an aerial photo of our house and the bit of land we are buying from the farmer (the bit thats cut, it took me 50 minutes with the mower to cut all that!) Nice patch of turf you are getting yourself! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfie1 Posted June 23 Share Posted June 23 (edited) 24 minutes ago, Rustic Ade said: Nice patch of turf you are getting yourself! Thanks, did originally try to buy a bigger bit and was going to build an off road rc track but farmer was worried we may build a house there, the thought hadnt even crossed our minds and tbh thats the last thing we would have done. But im happy with what we are buying so cant complain whatsoever, probably space to build a 1/8 or 1/10 track though 🙂 Edited June 23 by wolfie1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bunnie Posted June 24 Popular Post Share Posted June 24 Had a play with the settings and tried the GPS for the 1st time. Very happy with the results. Gone are the days where i was 6s mad. I don't need any more than 4s for park bashing. I just need to one by one test all my other cars and set them up to how I like them. Hopefully the weather stays like this till the weekend 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimplyChunk Posted June 25 Share Posted June 25 (edited) 3 hours ago, bunnie said: Had a play with the settings and tried the GPS for the 1st time. Very happy with the results. Gone are the days where i was 6s mad. I don't need any more than 4s for park bashing. I just need to one by one test all my other cars and set them up to how I like them. Hopefully the weather stays like this till the weekend I can't wait to get a GPS and try my Pirates for outright speed. That's supposed to be 6s compatible but I've only ever run it 4s and it's fast enough feel wise as is. I've already taking it down to a 15T from a 16T pinion on those 4s lipos. I'm guessing it would have to come all the way down to 13T if I did put a 6s in it lol Edit: How you finding your DDF-350? I love mine to death 🙂 Edited June 25 by SimplyChunk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunnie Posted June 25 Share Posted June 25 4 hours ago, SimplyChunk said: I can't wait to get a GPS and try my Pirates for outright speed. That's supposed to be 6s compatible but I've only ever run it 4s and it's fast enough feel wise as is. I've already taking it down to a 15T from a 16T pinion on those 4s lipos. I'm guessing it would have to come all the way down to 13T if I did put a 6s in it lol Edit: How you finding your DDF-350? I love mine to death 🙂 The ddf-350 is spot on. I've had various radio gear both cheap and top end and this does the job perfectly. Only downfall is you can only have 10 models on it so I've got another one on the way 😬 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimplyChunk Posted June 25 Share Posted June 25 4 hours ago, bunnie said: The ddf-350 is spot on. I've had various radio gear both cheap and top end and this does the job perfectly. Only downfall is you can only have 10 models on it so I've got another one on the way 😬 then you got to remember which group of models go to which of the controllers 😄 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunnie Posted June 25 Share Posted June 25 7 minutes ago, SimplyChunk said: then you got to remember which group of models go to which of the controllers 😄 Nothing worse than going out and forgetting the transmitter 😩 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post steephill Posted June 26 Popular Post Share Posted June 26 Some tyre testing on some new sections on the crawler course. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormbringer Posted June 26 Share Posted June 26 Im impressed 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfie1 Posted June 26 Share Posted June 26 1 hour ago, steephill said: Some tyre testing on some new sections on the crawler course. Every time i come on here you have a different crawler on your course, how many of them things do you have! 😱 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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