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Rekindling my love of RC

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soopahfly:

--- Quote from: Clock'd 0Ne on June 17, 2020, 07:29:30 AM ---It's not a hobby I think I would personally get into but I do find it extremely fascinating and cool :ptu:

Do people ever race them on made to scale tracks, or is it just too tricky to race like that? That would be awesome.

Similar thing, have you seen the VTOL harrier jump jets, etc that people have been building?


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There are clubs in the UK that do crawling, where you get points just for technical ability, but quite a few have scale classes too where you can make up for a lack of ability with making your car look as scale and realistic as possible.  I think these are called "Cheater" points. 
For the buggy's there are proper races and it's carnage.  But you also have to have specific cars, batteries and electronic speed controllers to make it all fair, and that soon racks up the cost.  Basically anything ROAR approved is all the money.

Unfortunately, I've not found any nearby to me.  All the ones I was involved in when I was younger were indoor carpet racing at either Don Valley or Dronfield Civic centre.
All the big clubs seem to be way down south, like Paddlesworth.

Vini:
I never owned an RC Car when I was young, but I always remember my mates having them. Combinations of Argos specials and Tamiya kits. I recall they all used to eat batteries.

Anyway, having a boy allowed me to have a peek/poke. I did what I always do, and massively over egged the research. I ended up looking at £200 kits for a 2 year old. So dialed it back in massively. I bought a 2.4GHZ McLaren "style" car from Amazon for ~£10. Perfect for the kid. He loves drooling on it and chasing it.

Having a small amount of fun with that, I started to re-research, got up to the £200 Schumacher/Tamiya stuff again, and dialed it back, ending up with a £20 WLToys A959B, cheap, chinese & way too fast for the living room! Probably just as Nathen said, too fast for its own good. Its sat gathering dust :D

Clock'd 0Ne:

--- Quote ---Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious RC collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.
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soopahfly:

--- Quote from: Vini on June 19, 2020, 16:59:10 PM ---I never owned an RC Car when I was young, but I always remember my mates having them. Combinations of Argos specials and Tamiya kits. I recall they all used to eat batteries.

Anyway, having a boy allowed me to have a peek/poke. I did what I always do, and massively over egged the research. I ended up looking at £200 kits for a 2 year old. So dialed it back in massively. I bought a 2.4GHZ McLaren "style" car from Amazon for ~£10. Perfect for the kid. He loves drooling on it and chasing it.

Having a small amount of fun with that, I started to re-research, got up to the £200 Schumacher/Tamiya stuff again, and dialed it back, ending up with a £20 WLToys A959B, cheap, chinese & way too fast for the living room! Probably just as Nathen said, too fast for its own good. Its sat gathering dust :D


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My kids have had the argos ones and they just frustrated me with how quickly they chewed through batteries, non proportional steering and throttle controls.
Granted, that's £10-15 for a car vs £100 for a tamiya but one of those will end up in landfill, and one will have spares and upgrades for decades.

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Serious:

--- Quote from: Clock'd 0Ne on June 17, 2020, 07:29:30 AM ---Do people ever race them on made to scale tracks, or is it just too tricky to race like that? That would be awesome.

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If it has RC then someone is bound to be racing it. Cars, trucks, boats, planes, drones, all get raced.

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