My custom 1/18 NRX Corvette

Another paint jobs for 1/18 corvette. Actually the shell came from HPI Micro RS4 models which I recently bought from local hobby stores. Very low CG (center gravity) looks good with matching wheels. With 3 color mainly Yellow, white and black I manage to spray according to my own paint theme. After scrubbing, cleaning, cutting and spray the shells looks marvelous with racing decals on. Lucky I got myself matching wheel sets BBS replica from HPI kits for 1/18 scale. Looks like my days well spent on doing creative stuff. Drooll!

The HBX Carbon pro kit and NRX-18 Carbon pro kit

Spent a week setting up this 2 speed freaks, everthing top notch to the end of the world but handling this stiff micro monster still qestionable since it only been 48 hours i've been try to tune it because the suspension and chassis doesn't flex much according to the terrains condition. But a plus when it comes to protecting the innear gear from crushed and misalign do to changing flex effect inside the chassis due to impact and rought terrains.

The rain doesn't stop us.

Was raining heavily last night, weather forecast on tv says its going to be a wet seasons and heavy flooding on certain part of the country. Will be like weeks. But for us nothing stop us from enjoying our gathering. We went over to near by inddor venue. Yup, we found it and enough space to drift around. We really enjoy our nights.

Yay! new spare set of NRX-18

Thanks to Mr. Foo our local hobby shop i manage to grab this extra spare set of NRX-18 at on;y 1/4 of its original price after booked for a week. Recently i've trashed my current NRX-18 with broken and worn out parts due to extreme speed after made several upgrades to the performance parts ioncluding switching to 7.2v 1700mah YEAH RACING LIPO battery with 25C to 40 current discharge burst rate and 6800KV CASTLE CREATION CM2068 brushless motor. Almost 40% of the parts worn out or damaged badly due to intense speed and stress force. Hopefull i can rip out this new parts from newly bought NRX-18 set and place it on my current active model.

Anotgher Miri MCNET R/c gathering

Its been few nights weve been gather around with our local city member forumer for our daily dosage of radio control activity at local open space r/c playground. From drag racing, circuit to drift. Everyone was enjoying them self. Lots of techinical work, discussion, chat, tech tuning and parts swapping among ourself. Can be a bit costly but it worth spending since its a very healthy activity and a way to get more friend through socialized activity, In just 1 month through R/C activity i've made more than dozen of friend of similar interest and hobby. We're almost family at instant. Yup we're always happy racing our cars together regardless size and speed.

World Most Dangerous Battery

I manage to grab some r/c parts upgrade sure to rise some hair rising speed and performance to the max. Got me two most crucial and missing link in my NRX-18 1:18 touring r/c car.
-YEAH RACING Lithium Polymer 1700mah 7.2 with discharge rate 25C to 40C burst battery
-CASTLE LINK CM2068 6800KV brushless motor.
First day of testing already causes major damages to the tyre, drive shaft, differential gear and body shell. So what? Mission accomplished! 89KMH! fuuu yeahh!!!! Its a competition performance car. I'm so damn happy about it.
My concern now is about the Lithium Polymer battery. Need to be take care with extreme caution. They are dangerous than nitro fuel, explosive if overcharge and discharge and very fragile. That thing is equivalent to hand grenade. lol. I hope it doesn't put my pocket burner r/c car in flames.

Youtube: 1/10 vs 1/18 race.

Another wonderfull evening to waste my time before heading home from work. Not much people around only me and my radio control companion Eru on the track enjoying racing among ourself. Sorry for the lousy youtube quality. Looks like the video conversion looks a bit crappy after transfer to youtube.
Anyways here'a a video clip of Eru and me runing around the car park circuit. I put my video cam on ERU 1/10 car and infront is me (the green yellow car). ERU on EZRUN brushless system while i'm on CASTLE CREATION: SIDEWINDER MICRO brusless system. Both on very power saving mode which is a bit slower setting but good enough to race since we need to save up the battery. Here's the recorded on board cam video.

God bless our happy evening.

Thank goodnesss no rain happened in that particular area, it does rain heavily a few kilometers away from the office but not at our racing circuit, maybe god bless us with luck and protect us from unlucky disaster...well it is raining seasons. Its just partially wet and we almost drift all the way. Not many people turn up for the race only me and Aki since the rain just drizzle around some unluck area. Another happy evening. Got me 3 packs of battery to last me almost 2 hours of play. It was nice evening with bring orange sunset. Really enjoy the scene and felt relaxed after being stuck in the office for hours.

Back to drift mode.

Ok, so looks like i'm back again into touring cars. At first i was thinking permanently swanted to stick to mini off-roader the mini truck. Then after long thoughts weighting between keeping either mini monster truck and 1/18 NRX-18 i decided to shift all the parts back to its original place on touring cars that is the old 4wd NRX-18. Its was a 3 hours setup to move the electronic parts from truck to touring car. Castle Creation: SIDEWINDER MICRO ESC, 4200KV brushless motor, HL AM receiver box, TOWER PRO 9G micro servo, gears and connector swapped place. Thankfully i got my old battery back plus its comes with 2x 1000mah 6V battery with 400mah charger from old forumer buddy under barter trade method with some of my R/C stuff. Was a good deal. Now with CIVIC TYPE-R chassis the urge to get out and bash rival player spark the flame. Time to drift.
What happened to my mini monster ? Welll, only time will decided. Surely it will resurrected in few days with more powerful configuration and spec.