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Do Work Driver Words: Ty Giebel Photos: Ty Giebel Since 2007, Axial has been a staple of the crawling community and events around the world. But over the last couple of years, radio control rock crawling’s focus has shifted away …

Outerwears has been fighting debris and contaminants on vehicles big and small for years. They have helped us in the RC market keep our machines in better running condition with their Outerwears prefilter for motors, air filters, Shockwears for shocks and …

The radio control hobby started off as an evolution of static modeling and Tamiya has been the leader in radio control modeling since the beginning. Over the years, they never lost sight of the true modeling aspect and many of their kits offer you the full experience of building, painting and driving a near replica of a full-scale machine.

The All-In-One-Hauler The act of gear transportation has become quite an art form. It takes months, if not years, of slowly organizing your equipment to fit your most needed parts into your boxes, the boxes into the bags and the …

Imagine yourself strapped into a custom built rock buggy. You are surrounded by a steel cage that you welded together yourself in your garage. Five hundred horses are rumbling under the hood. You are entering a creek bed, and as you approach the first rock, you peg the throttle.

It’s no surprise that as the electric side of our hobby gains popularity and becomes more powerful and faster, we are seeing larger and more exciting models available for reasonable prices. A couple of years ago if you wanted a large electric monster truck, you had to basically custom convert a nitro truck.

Fun, Controllable Power It goes without saying that everyone from newbies to the most experienced racer wants cool-looking vehicle with raw, over-the-top power. Unfortunately, this can often come at a steep price and these super-powerful vehicles can be difficult for …

Continuing the Dominance? Words: Carl Hyndman Photos: Carl Hyndman Today’s tracks are faster, have more traction and incorporate features that are technically harder than anything we saw a decade ago. Considering that the winningest 2WD buggy in history has been …

4WD All-Terrain Monster Truck Words: David Baker Photos: Walter Sidas/David Baker Vaterra hit the ground running when they introduced us to their entirely new line of cars that included the Glamis Uno buggy, Twin Hammers rock/desert racer and the Kemora …

Since the release of the X200 DC charger a few years back the people over at iMax have released a series of successful color, touch-screen balance chargers that seemingly one-up one another.  The X200 was followed up by the X350, …

Locked, Loaded and Ready to Rock Words: David Harrington Photos: Walter Sidas The rock crawler world has always been divided into two distinct segments, the scalers and the competition rigs. Many of the elements that make a crawler look true …

Hop-Up for Better Handling Words: Greg Vogel The Traxxas Slash is, of course, credited with the launch of the popular short course market. The truck brought the fun and excitement of a short course truck to RC drivers of all …

I get a lot of questions about RC vehicles and one of the most common is regarding battery chargers. Most people new to the hobby pick up an awesome RTR with a battery included and are interested in charging the battery faster than the wall chargers that most RTR packages come with. However, it is hard to recommend to someone who just bought a $100.00 RTR, a charger worth about as much as the car they just bought.

1/10-scale electric competition has no doubt been one of my favorite forms of racing since I got into the hobby. Adding a competitive power system to your rig is a must in today’s high stakes racing world. The ZTW Beast …

The Gmade Sawback follows the styling of an early Willy’s Jeep. The simple open cockpit gives the vehicle an open feel with a design that dates back to before safety was a primary concern in motor vehicles. Before the Sawback, the only option we had for modelling a Willy’s Jeep was the laborious task of modifying a 1/6-scale toy. Now Gmade has taken this difficult task and made it simple for the masses to be part of. Get ready to relive those WWII test videos in your own backyard!