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  1. Lone-wolf
    I have been mulling over the idea of getting a trail rig for the wife to drive, then instead of me sloping of on my own she can join me for walks and trailing, so ordered a landfreeder for her, this will be painted purple/black and yes it will have a "powered by fairy dust" sticker, the build should start in a few days
  2. Lone-wolf
    Welcome. you say about getting a kit for sub £300 but what type of rig, crawler, rally, touring
  3. Lone-wolf
    Ha, more U turns than a brexit campain, looks like i will be getting the Tamiya landfreeder, this makes a lot of sense to me (yes me only) as i have been looking at building a car for my wife and painting it a nice purple colour, as i wanted to get a landfreeder before this is about best plan
  4. Lone-wolf
    I am inclined to stick with Carisma as its really good quality for the price, very happy with the Lynx, the scale ford is a next level car, just dont like the cream/orange colour, and not keen on painting outside of shell to change it, might wait and see if they bring out a kit version, might be worth looking into getting an axial builders kit though
  5. Lone-wolf
    so looking to next car toying with either of the above, the carisma scale ford works out cheaper and looks a very good bit of kit, just dont know about factory colour scheme
  6. Lone-wolf
    Is this motor over each axle? how do you rate this crawler
  7. Lone-wolf
    I sent you a link to one at hobbyking, an overlander RC6 is very good, i see you are local to me, im just up the hill
  8. Lone-wolf
    yes , pics with trx would be good
  9. Lone-wolf
    the upgrades have started, new shiny wheels and new tyres, just cheap tyres while i decide what nice ones to get, shame the steering servo is dead but new one should arrive tomorrow, then its ready for Ogden water on sunday
  10. Lone-wolf
    New wheels for my Carisma scale Lynx, only cheap Austar tyres, but going to get some better tyres.....if i dont get a better rig
  11. Lone-wolf
    Na, keeping out of the water, i have had so much bad luck with rigs breaking a few mins into a run that i wont encourage things to go wrong
  12. Lone-wolf
    so river runs was not such a good idea, fried the steering servo, turns out its not waterproof, now waiting on a new servo, so will keep out of the water from now
  13. Lone-wolf
    @Gaz, have you had much of a chance to do any crawling with this rig, and where would you place it crawler, trail runner or just a big basher type rig
  14. Lone-wolf

    Nice when you buy a model that is classed as waterproof, then first time you run into water steeering servo fries, then you look at spec for said servo and no, its not waterproof, not even splash proof

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    2. Tug

      Tug

      Just remembered, I also dunked a non-waterproof ESC in a river by mistake, dried it out and all was good, it ran for years after that. 

       

      Good times. 

    3. sunny

      sunny

      If you get any electrics wet just get a bowl of dry uncooked rice and leave the receiver/esc in it over night and it will be perfectly dry in morning

    4. bertberr

      bertberr

      Assuming the Mrs hasn't just cooked it up with the curry...

  15. Lone-wolf
    turns out i fried my steering servo, last time out, water got in from a river run, note to oneself carisma servo not waterproof
  16. Lone-wolf
    have you seen the new Fimi Xiaomi drone, looks pretty cool
  17. Lone-wolf
    I think i will struggle with masking, i am about as clumsy as a clumsy thing
  18. Lone-wolf
    some good advice in the above posts, i can see me coming back to this when i do my first shell paint
  19. Lone-wolf
    Is the Mobius still for sale, if so i will buy it
  20. Lone-wolf
    oh, that does look proper nice, wonder how much?
  21. Lone-wolf
    Not what i wanted, a red card to say my Runcam 2 was signed for so have to wait on that but yodel delivered a set of Austar 1.9 tyres, would of been nice if the new alloy beadlocks had arrived with them
  22. Lone-wolf
    before i got my carisma scale, i was advised on here to get one, and so glad i did, it really is a very good truck out of the box, and IMHO not a lot of upgrading to do, my next rig will defo be another carisma
  23. Lone-wolf

    New tougher laws coming in for RC flying, looks like i might be grounded later in the year, glad i found trail and crawlers

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    2. Davy Crockett

      Davy Crockett

      Same thing happens in many hobbies/interests...

      Majority of us on here enjoy our hobby responsibly but a very small minority act irresponsibly and are seen by many so we're all tarred with same brush.

      Similarly all drinkers need locking up and all football fans are hooligans in the eyes of the media brainwashed narrow minded cretins

      I'm a CAA qualified drone pilot and fly for part of my job, H&S and legal hoops I have to jump through have just increased massively thanks to misinformed media frenzy and jungle drums

    3. Bajadre

      Bajadre

      only changes ive heard is doing a online test questions for common sense and bigger geofences around airports etc the rest will be the same as usual use a spotter if fpving stay under 400ft and if on own stay in line of sight the new rules are a good thing tbf just the way they've brought them forward with all this airport sighting craps annoyed me I know a lot of flyers and we wouldn't dare fly near an airfield and endanger people

    4. freedivercam

      freedivercam

      Saw something saying if you are a member of the BMFA you are exempt from some of the rules, from memory you can fly to 1000ft non line of sight as long as you have some sort of FPV system, will see if I can find it again and update later!

      BMFA Membership is cheap too so worth while!

  24. Lone-wolf
    I have the Carisma scale Lynx and find it to be very good out of the box, to a point where i dont see me doing much up grades
  25. Lone-wolf
    The Carisma has a big following for good reason, great quality and very good crawlers, you wont be disappointed with it at all
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