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biggest and best of 2020

                                                          General post So this week as I was reading my January 2020(not a typo the digital issues are a month ahead I believe,) issue of RC Car action magazine they had a beast of a monster truck called the raminator by primal rc. I will give you an idea of scale, because obviously after seeing it I did some research on youtube and its scale is listed at 1/5 so basically a quarter scale. I will now real off the stats. LENGTH:1016MM HEIGHT: 610MM WIDTH: 813MM WHEEL BASE: 610MM  WEIGHT: 80LBS TIRE DIAMETER: 305MM RADIO SYSTEM: FLYSKY 6CH this is the interesting part it has all metal gears and servos as you would expect, but the bit that caught my attention is its got a 49cc pocket bike 2 stroke engine its running nearly a 50cc engine now even without testing one that is going ...

New one just in after a bit of a break Thunder Tiger SSK

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THUNDER TIGER SSK FROM START TO FINISH We did a thunder tiger ssk a few months back from start to finish as a side project from our usual buy do up and keep this one we did a little bit like wheeler dealers style, unfortunately my budget is not as big as wheeler dealers and the profit margins are a lot lower as with RC stuff it has a ceiling price. Here is a picture of when it arrived. The first job was to get it stripped and see what was what so to speak. The first problems we noticed was the front steering arms were shot 3 of the shocks were good 1 was broken. The centre spur was in good condition as was the chassis apart from needing a good clean and some replacement parts. witit the beauty of this hobby with love and care you can get a car truck whatever rebuilt from the ground up you dont need to condemn a car to the scrapyard just a little love and care and its going again. the first thing you will notice is the engine change it was changed from a thunder ...