Howdy From Hawai’i Island!
Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2024 9:07 pm
Hey all, it’s a pleasure to finally stop lurking this site and to join up for some fun RC car discussion. I’m a long-time RC enthusiast, originally poisoned by a Tamiya Grasshopper back in oh, 1984 I think it was and have had the disease ever since despite taking some hiatuses as needed. I love old RC cars, and designing aircraft, boats, and vintage style buggies. It’s cool to get into Rc10Talk and see where it goes. If you’d like to track me down elsewhere I tend to talk about my vintage Kyosho projects a lot over at Tamiyaclub and you’ll find me as “Anthroxoid” there since their site wouldn’t allow a simple 4-letter handle.
Anyways, stoked. We have no real RC race tracks out here but I’ve been building a lot of ReRes over the past years and keeping busy making models far more than running them. I love a good old Tamiya, Kyosho, Yokomo, and of course Associated Electrics design to build—Schumacher may be my fav, though I try to just go after whatever is a good design and appreciate them for what they are. Got some modern 4WD buggies built just to see how far things have come along and they’re pretty cool.
Gotta say I’m fairly well diseased with 1/10th, 4WD buggy obsession, though presently ooching towards ordering the 10T ReRe since AE announced that they’ll start carrying parts. I love a good running 10T with a dialed Stealth tranny.
Also have a terrible vintage 540 motor habit, worse than drugs I swear, and collect old Reedy and Trinity mods, as well as some more obscure stuff made by AYK and Air Supply, tho own no Top motors yet. I’m getting into winding my own arms just because why not? It’s fun stuff for late night tinkering and learning how the Big Guys made such nice motors before brushless took over.
Looking forward to being allowed into the trading forums (however the heck that works) and in the meantime plan to put together a second, LWB Optima Mid Custom. I just love the Optima Mid even though the YZ-10 was in some ways superior I guess via simplicity, and will post my next build here. This forum seems pretty active, so aloha to y’all and I’ll look forward to learning and sharing some old school, and modern buggy chat with you folks.
Cheers,
—Xoid
Anyways, stoked. We have no real RC race tracks out here but I’ve been building a lot of ReRes over the past years and keeping busy making models far more than running them. I love a good old Tamiya, Kyosho, Yokomo, and of course Associated Electrics design to build—Schumacher may be my fav, though I try to just go after whatever is a good design and appreciate them for what they are. Got some modern 4WD buggies built just to see how far things have come along and they’re pretty cool.
Gotta say I’m fairly well diseased with 1/10th, 4WD buggy obsession, though presently ooching towards ordering the 10T ReRe since AE announced that they’ll start carrying parts. I love a good running 10T with a dialed Stealth tranny.
Also have a terrible vintage 540 motor habit, worse than drugs I swear, and collect old Reedy and Trinity mods, as well as some more obscure stuff made by AYK and Air Supply, tho own no Top motors yet. I’m getting into winding my own arms just because why not? It’s fun stuff for late night tinkering and learning how the Big Guys made such nice motors before brushless took over.
Looking forward to being allowed into the trading forums (however the heck that works) and in the meantime plan to put together a second, LWB Optima Mid Custom. I just love the Optima Mid even though the YZ-10 was in some ways superior I guess via simplicity, and will post my next build here. This forum seems pretty active, so aloha to y’all and I’ll look forward to learning and sharing some old school, and modern buggy chat with you folks.
Cheers,
—Xoid
