buggy bash!

Ah its sunday! a great time to be outdoor again. After church session, i went out for full blown breakfast, pick up my friend and away we go at out to the local off-road race track outskirt of town at 10.30am. Morning was hot, the sky was blue and clear added with pure white flaky clouds. We're carried load of equipment into the track and pit our self on our nitro r/c buggy for preparation to bash around the circuit. Our adrenalin fired up in seconds after we start our engine and hearing those tempting high reving nitro engine pump up those high pitch sound like F1 engine and the smells of methane smoke in the morning. We push our little machine around the track, we punch in the throttle, hit the bump and jump as high as we can. It feels like it hang on in the high in the mid air like a minutes. Certain time it jump as high as 1 storey building and landed perfectly on the dirt like stunt dare devil. That was awesome. Then we race side by side spewing huge amount of dust and leave trails like dusty sand storm. It went on and on till afternoon. The amount of people turn up from three to more than 20 racer. The track getting more crowded and the adrenalin pace was a huge rush. Sweats, scorching heat of the sun, sunburn, high pitch screaming noises of the engine, the smell of methanol smoke and voices of people shouting and cheering getting more and more. At the end by 6.30pm eveyrthing slows down as everyone brought their r/c buggy/truggy machine back to their pit for services, packing and ready to leave. The track owner and owner of our favorite local hobby shop Mr. Foo of Foo Brother Hobby Shop was their giving full support both technical and moral to the racer. Also would like to thank Skydark of Mcnet for the drinks. Anyone i was covered in dust and ready for a cool bath. What a day well spent!

Getting back to 1:18

I decided to play back my 1:18 scale r/c models NANDA NRX-18 which previously known as KYOSHO's. Went to our favorite local professional hobby shop for sapre servo steering parts and got me a microservo "PRO TOWER" 9G parts, small enough to leave more space for my HL micro ESC 320A and receiver. Also the owner of the shop Mr. Foo gladly to let me take a peek on his custom racing NRX-18 with greeny parts which he installed a performance electronic both ESC and brushless motor are from MAMBA. Cool. Also got new models from HQ models featured clone Skyline Calsonic body shell with typical no so.. but ok chassis with non intergrated electronics which a bit bulk for 1:18 scale. I was pretty dissappointed not able to grab me chrome 5 flange rims which usually one of my long awaited favorite stuff for *bling *bling upgrades. Mr. Foo going to organize a competition for 1:18 scale racing. I'll be training on my car and prepare for race too, Hope i could upgrade fully before the next race.

Saturday day out.

No surprise now i'm much back again into Radio Control scene after absent for years. The parts getting cheaper and the trends also pushing up way popular then ever. I've already put my investment into few hobby grade R/C models and daily wnet outdoor for fulltime spin around local ground if i'm not onto mountain biking for the day which pretty much explain why i'm relax a day after the ride. Last Saturday evening me and my buddy who's on bigfoot bettle doing some off-roading near the beach but i've settle some technical problem for 1 hours then manage to get going later on the dirt. I've spent 30 minutes fulltime swing around and jump on the dirt with my truck doing some big air and then flip tumble 360 degree and back on its wheel again ready to sprint all over the track. It was fun pastime and great way to be outdoor watching me driving along with friends remotely on miniature car/trucks. As usually there always few trade off after fun bashing around the dirt...yeah back at home always been maintenance work, lubricating, adjusting suspension setup, tunning the electronics and unlucky me i had broken servo which cost me few bucks to fix it but its no biggy.

A day on Youtube

Well today i skip my day on WHIRL WIND project and spend more time over the internet in Youtube watching several flash back videos from the past. Above are nostalgia from the past. Funny and yet it keep me laugh all day.

Opppss i suppose i should get back working on my track project.

Mini Radio Control 4x4!

After 3 months!...Found it! Thanks to my buddy who manage to inform me about the last available stocks of mini 4x4 at Toys World i manage to rush to the shop after office hours and bought this cool Hummer like 4x4 mini R/C truck at only USD $13 dollars. With 2 servo action and cool suspension setup....cheap eh? Check out this clip with similar models attached on this video. For you info this mini radio control came from Hong Kong under AULDEY brand http://www.auldey.com . Actually this toys were out sold for almost 3 months but return back with less than four stocks only at our local toy shop. So me any buddy quickly grab it quick last evening. He got pimped up HILUX replica. The stocks comes with crappy controller and sticker but i stripped it off leaving it beautifully plain. Next month i'm gonna place a few cash for upgrades and performance upgrades just enough to blast some dirt on the track and do some rock crawling. With my hands holding this cool piece of hardware i forgot about 3d models work for today. Time to take a break and enjoy..