Hi there, long time racer here
I've recently been propositioned by my dad to help him set up a sort of R/C club for his kids at school (private - money's no object, but we're looking at prices people won't automatically balk at anyway). We've narrowed it down, so far, to a few different options. If you guys have any helpful thoughts and suggestions, would you be kind enough to share?
So:
TT-01. Great deals on MSUK, and I personally think this is the best one to go for. Clear instructions, Tamiya's NukeProof ™ build quality, etcetera. Only issue is that this *is* a money is no object school, so we're worried that the kids'll appear for only their second week of racing scale cars with big grins and shiny new XRays and Losis and such.Ansmann Master Smacker. Very cheap and cheerful, but apparently build quality isn't so good and the instructions are lousy (considering this is schoolkids who A) will crash and B ) will need decent guidelines for something this complex we're talking about, these seem important points in the 'Cons' column. Something else to note there is that replacements need to be on the cheaper side of things ).DuraTrax Vendetta (buggy/TC). Seems great, potentially the winner here, but where on earth can you get them in the UK!? More to the point, they seem to be more expensive than the above deals on MSUK when you get them to race-state.
The main points of the exercise are to get the kids thinking mechanically, technically and tactically with building the cars from kits, doing a decent job on painting the body shells (individually if possible) and setting up. They'll ideally have their own choices to hop up with a variety of different parts offering different gains in performance, and while we're not aiming to be a proper R/C club with timing and so on (Stocksbridge R/C club is where we plan to get them all meeting up and racing competetively), we're hoping we can have some kind of open practice with the kids all getting into it together at the school as well.
Thanks for reading Hope you don't mind giving any suggestions you have for different car options
