Old Soldiers Never Die
Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 9:50 am
Hello, my name is Todd. I'm from Northeast PA.
Thanks to Melvinsarmy for steering me to this site.
I started out on oval with my brother Joel in an old school gym run by Marshall's Hilltop Hobbies, running Fox's and Falcon's. Later, when Marshall's got his own outdoor dirt oval, Joel switched to RC10's which I could not afford so I went with the Traxxis Bullet and dabbled with a little carpet with a Bolink pan then a Bolink Legend. Also tooled around with a Kyosho Raider and a Futaba FX10. Got out for a while but then got the itch and picked up an RC10B2S and REALLY got in deep with a RC10B3FTW with extra goodies from RPM, HG, Robinson, LRP,.ect. Only ran maybe two sticks thru the B3 when family obligations made it a shelf queen.
Fast forward about 10 years and I find myself working for the DoD and getting deployed to Baghdad. I hear thru the grapevine that on base there is a Baghdad International Raceway. So I forward shipped the B3 and the B2 (for spares).
So here's my "Old Soldier" doing battle out here in Baghdad with B4's, B4T's, SC's, and nitros:











Last two pic are of our track.
As for the "Old Soldier", anybody know where I can get another Worlds wing for him? I've got the B2 one on him now and that's dying. Military server blocks ebay and it's a PITA to get on the MWR computers. And I ain't posted enough to shop here.
Thanks,
-Todd
Thanks to Melvinsarmy for steering me to this site.
I started out on oval with my brother Joel in an old school gym run by Marshall's Hilltop Hobbies, running Fox's and Falcon's. Later, when Marshall's got his own outdoor dirt oval, Joel switched to RC10's which I could not afford so I went with the Traxxis Bullet and dabbled with a little carpet with a Bolink pan then a Bolink Legend. Also tooled around with a Kyosho Raider and a Futaba FX10. Got out for a while but then got the itch and picked up an RC10B2S and REALLY got in deep with a RC10B3FTW with extra goodies from RPM, HG, Robinson, LRP,.ect. Only ran maybe two sticks thru the B3 when family obligations made it a shelf queen.
Fast forward about 10 years and I find myself working for the DoD and getting deployed to Baghdad. I hear thru the grapevine that on base there is a Baghdad International Raceway. So I forward shipped the B3 and the B2 (for spares).
So here's my "Old Soldier" doing battle out here in Baghdad with B4's, B4T's, SC's, and nitros:











Last two pic are of our track.
As for the "Old Soldier", anybody know where I can get another Worlds wing for him? I've got the B2 one on him now and that's dying. Military server blocks ebay and it's a PITA to get on the MWR computers. And I ain't posted enough to shop here.
Thanks,
-Todd