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Monster Truck Madness – Reenacting Road House

Road House is one of the best ’80s movies. Featuring an in-his-prime Patrick Swayze as a tough bouncer, a gruff Sam Elliott as his mentor, a smokin’ Kelly Lynch as the town Doctor, Ben Gazzara as the evil town business magnate, and a host of other cast members that even includes legendary pro wrestler Terry Funk, it’s hard to find [...]

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Losing grip – Hitting the Traxxas Sledge with a sledgehammer

Right now, a lot of us want a Traxxas Sledge, the latest and want to be greatest bash machine out there. I want one too, but due to a limited budget am sadly not likely toget one. Anyway, suppose I do buy one (birthday is coming up), would I want to hit it with a sledgehammer? Would you? For reference, [...]

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Monster Truck Madness – Buyin’ and Sellin’

Hello everyone, Happy Thursday. There’s a very timely e-mail that just came in today, so let’s get right to it. Hi Doug, nice to email meet you. Got a question for you: I’m super intrigued by Horizon Hobby’s sale on the Losi LMT roller—$260 until 4/22 or supplies run out. However, I’m skeptical. Why the deep discount? Anything (like a V2, for [...]

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EVERYBODY'S SCALIN' - RC4WD TF2 LWB BACK TO THE TRAILS TRUCK…

It has been a while since we have revisited the RC4WD Trailfinder 2 Back to The Trails Truck.  Since getting the rig over the summer, the truck has had a few adventures. It’s made a trip to Kentucky, Horizon Fest, and USTE 2022. But with that much travel and wheel time on any rig will start to show no matter [...]

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Monster Truck Madness – Haulin’ the Mail

Never in my wildest dreams did I think that the r/c monster truck scene would be so popular so as to support scale hauler tires, but it’s good to be wrong sometimes. Last week the JConcepts Transporter tire was announced, as well as the accompanying Tribute Transport wheel that goes with it. A full sized monster truck spends the vast majority of [...]

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Monster Truck Madness - Playskool SST Monster Trucks and Pul…

The Playskool brand is one of the longest running lines of toys in the world. These days, they are best known for brightly colored baby-playthings. It wasn’t always this way though. Playskool is/was responsible for arguably the coolest line of toy trucks that ever existed- the SST (Super Size Trucks) line back in the 80’s. This series featured battery operated vehicles [...]

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EVERYBODY’S SCALIN’ – BEAT THE CREEK 2022!

Mark your calendars for May 14th-15th. Big Squid RC will be invading Maysville Kentucky for the 7th annual Beat The Creek! For a few years now I have been trying to get to this event. As life would have it, something would come up and make it so I couldn’t attend. Not this year, along with myself the Scalin’ Squids [...]

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Monster Truck Madness – Wakin’ Up the LMT

I just competed in my first racing event of the 2022 season this past weekend, so let’s talk about all of those Losi LMT changes I made recently. Here are several articles discussing this build. The TL;DR version is this- all the Treal, JConcepts, BowHouse RC and Spektrum goodies make my LMT feel like a COMPLETELY different vehicle than it was [...]

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EVERYBODY'S SCALIN' - BOWHOUSE RC N2R Steering Rack for Elem…

The Element RC Knightrunner is back in the shop for its next round of BowHouse RC mods. This time around we installed the N2R Steering Rack for Element Enduro IFS v2, along with N2R Aluminum Steering Bell Cranks for Element Enduro IFS, and Bump Stops for Element Enduro IFS. If you are interested in doing the steering rack, I would [...]

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Monster Truck Madness – Low CG LMT with BowHouse RC Goodies

Hello everyone, happy Thursday! My 2022 racing season starts off this upcoming weekend, and my Losi LMT is in the shop for one last set of upgrades before hitting the track! The stock battery tray sits very high at the rear of the vehicle. BowHouse RC makes an LCG battery tray to rectify this issue. Since I’d be lowering the battery box, I [...]

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EVERYBODY’S SCALIN’ – TIRES AND FOAMS FOR THE DODGE!

Farm Truck 2 has been a killer rig so far. From its maiden voyage at USTE 2022, to the miles it has driven in Juicebox Off-Road Park, the truck still drives like its brand new. Haven’t even had any bugs to work out, but when you use a GCM Racing Cmax 2 Chassis, Holmes Hobbies Crawlmaster, and a REEFS RC [...]

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Monster Truck Madness – Sledges, LMTs and Odd & Ends

Hello everyone and Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Starting off, anyone reading this at the time of publication should check out Horizon Hobby’s Flash Sale. Losi LMT Rollers are $150 off and the RTR Grave Digger and Sonuva Digger are discounted $200! Those are some crazy deals. And no, I’m not getting paid or kick backs or anything from this, I’m just [...]

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Monster Truck Madness – Rotten Apple LMT

They say go big or go home. On my LMT which, by the way is our original review test unit, I’ve decided to go big. I’ve been talking about my LMT a lot in recent weeks, whether painting the body or getting the parts together to upgrade it. You can read some of my past write-ups here. Alright, time to get [...]

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EVERYBODY'S SCALIN' - FRIXION RC 1" BRAVEN IRONSIDE SCALE TI…

Frixion RC has popped up out of thin air it seems, carrying an impressive catalog of scale and performance hop ups. We got our hands on a set of 1” Braven Ironside Scale tires with the Alien Kompound from Frixion RC. The tires look great, so we pulled in our FMS Model Toyota Land Cruiser into the scale shop and [...]

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Monster Truck Madness- Green, All the Way Down

Well, thar she blows, folks. My first ever airbrushed body. My Losi LMT is sporting this freshly painted JConcepts ’89 Ford. I think I went a tad dark on the shading and the letters didn’t quite come out perfect, but hey for a first time I’m pretty happy. And besides, if it turned out perfect I’d probably be sad about the [...]

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