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Monster Truck Madness – My First Airbrush Job
Hello everyone. I have started to attempt my first ever r/c airbrush job, and I’d like to share with you all how it’s going. I am painting a JConcepts ’89 Ford for my Losi LMT. I started by doing all of the normal stuff- trimming the body, reaming the holes and mounting it BEFORE paint, and then giving it a wash [...]
- 2/24/2022
- 3:22 pm
- Monster Truck Madness
- By: Doug
Monster Truck Madness – So Many Parts
Hello everyone and happy Thursday! The UPS man has been loving me lately, as I’ve had a steady stream of monster truck parts coming to my house with no signs of stopping. I’m preparing for the 2022 monster truck racing season and overhauling many trucks in the fleet- new bodies, new tires, fresh components, all that good stuff. The most dramatic overhaul [...]
Monster Truck Madness – Creating a BIGFOOT #10 Diorama
Hello gang and Happy Thursday. Thirty years ago last week, on January 31st, 1992, little seven year old Douglas was at the St. Louis Arena for the annual USHRA monster truck show. Being someone with a February birthday, this was always my present. The Arena is long gone, but I’m very thankful to of grown up going to monster truck shows there. [...]
- 2/10/2022
- 5:05 pm
- Monster Truck Madness
- By: Doug
Monster Truck Madness – Learning to Airbrush
Hello everyone, greetings from a snowy St. Louis, MO. As I write this, there’s about 6″ on the ground and it’s still coming down hard! I suppose it’s a good thing that right before the storm hit, I picked up my full airbrushing setup! Learning to FINALLY airbrush was my New Year’s Resolution, and I decided to not waste any time. I’ve [...]
- 2/3/2022
- 7:35 pm
- Monster Truck Madness
- By: Doug
Monster Truck Madness – Great to get back at it
Hello gang, happy Thursday! Last weekend I took part in my first solid axle monster truck race in four months- an eternity for me! I went racing at the Childress RC Racing event in Sullivan, MO. The racing surface was both on carpet and a relatively slick indoor tile floor. You’d go from 100% grip on carpet to the, well, less than [...]
- 1/27/2022
- 5:37 pm
- Monster Truck Madness
- By: Doug
Monster Truck Madness – Getting Ready to Race and New Tires
Oh yeah, it’s a race weekend! I’m preparing my monster truck fleet to do battle in Sullivan, MO this Saturday. Not only is it the first time I’ve competed in 2022….but the first time in four months! After the BIGFOOT 4×4 Open House last September, my race rigs went on the shelf. After a long Spring and Summer race season, [...]
Monster Truck Madness – Updated Big Boys
Hiya folks and happy Thursday! The week between Christmas and New Years is somewhat of a time vortex where it’s very easy for news to fall through the cracks. That’s when Primal RC announced an update to their gigantic 1/5 Raminator and the addition of a 1/5 mega truck on the same platform. I wanted to call attention to it here because [...]
Monster Truck Madness – Resolutions
Hey all and Happy New Year! Ya know, I’m generally not a person for resolutions. I’m always of the mind that there’s no better day to make a change for yourself than today, and that’s whether it’s in the middle of July OR Jan 1. However, I’ll admit that being a week into 2022, the time does feel ripe to put [...]
Monster Truck Madness - Ending the Year with Awesome BIGFOOT…
Hey gang, as 2021 comes to close, I wanted to share some absolutely stunning BIGFOOT replica monster trucks with you, built by my friend @TEAM_BIG_GUNZ_RACING on Instagram. These are his words-I’ve always admired the way Bigfoot #3 looked. To me, that is the best looking monster truck ever and I still feel the same way about that truck even till [...]
- 1/3/2022
- 11:08 am
- Monster Truck Madness
- By: Doug
Monster Truck Madness – What’s Under My Tree?
Hey folks, before I get to anything else- a very happy holidays to you and your family! It’s kind of crazy that as I write this, on Christmas Eve Eve, it’s 70 degrees and sunny in St. Louis….but I’ll take it! As I prepare for a weekend of lounging around with eggnog, I figured I’d answer a couple e-mails- Hey Doug, Longtime reader [...]
- 12/24/2021
- 1:13 pm
- Monster Truck Madness
- By: Doug
Monster Truck Madness – Building a 1/24 Mini-Monster Truck
Hello everyone! Maybe you’ve heard about how folks are building 1/24 scale mini solid axle monster trucks by combining Axial SCX24 running gear with a purpose built chassis and model tires? Well, I’ve got one built, I’ve got a FULL parts list, and I’ve run it. If you’re wondering whether you should build one or not, have a read! I want [...]
- 12/16/2021
- 3:49 pm
- Monster Truck Madness
- By: Doug
Monster Truck Madness – She’s Alllllmost Done
Heya guys, welcome to the Thursday Monster Truck Madness! Yes, once upon a time I ran this on Wednesday, but I think it’s slid to Thursday now for a year or more, so probably safe to say it’s now officially a Thursday thing, lol. Hey, lookey here! I have the Tiny Titan mini-monster truck nearly complete! Oh yes, finally! Apologies for [...]
- 12/10/2021
- 2:06 pm
- Monster Truck Madness
- By: Doug
Monster Truck Madness – Playin’ the Slots
I dunno about you all, but this time of year I always get nostalgic for slot cars. Some of my favorite Christmas presents back in the day were slot car sets. Heck, in recent years I even flirted with the new high-tech digital tracks (very fun!) by buying a layout. So imagine how cool it was to hear of the amazing [...]
- 12/2/2021
- 8:13 pm
- Monster Truck Madness
Uncategorized - By: Doug
Monster Truck Madness – Which Grave Digger should you buy?
Hello gang, and a very Happy Thanksgiving to those of you reading in the US! Due to the holiday season going full swing, I’m seeing e-mails and discussion on the monster truck group pages where prospective r/c monster truckers are asking which Grave Digger they should buy, either for themselves or (as most of the discourse I’ve personally seen) as a [...]
Monster Truck Madness – A Year of the LMT
Greetings gang, and welcome to the last “pre-holiday season” MTM! I use the quotes because these days, holiday season starts November 1st and NOT on the day after Thanksgiving as in years past! (and side-note, for those looking to shop early, today was a heck of a day with two big releases in the hobby!). Last year at this time I [...]
- 11/18/2021
- 3:55 pm
- Monster Truck Madness
- By: Doug
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