HOW-TO: Fix Lexan (Polycarbonate) Body Shell Cutting Mistakes
You are carefully cutting out your polycarbonate body so that you can paint it with your choice of PS paints. But then your hobby knife slips and you cut a line or make a hole in the shell, tearing a ...
14 Jul 20257min
Should You Grease Your Gearbox Where it Connects to Your Chassis?
Vintage, classic, and rere (re-release) radio controlled buggies like the Grasshopper, Hornet, Grasshopper II, Super Hornet, Rising Fighter, etc. have a pivot point at the back of the bottom of the ch...
13 Jul 20256min
R/C Rally Car Legends: Audi Quattro vs. Lancia 037
In 1983 Tamiya made the 2 most iconic class B rally cars into 1/10th scale R/C models. However, when they re-released these radio controlled vehicles in the modern era they used different chassis and ...
12 Jul 20256min
R/C Jargon: Racing, Bashing, Crawling, Drifting, Speed Running, and More!
The R/C hobby isn't just collecting, building, and racing. There's also bashing, crawling, drifting, and speed running, each activity having a number of sub-genres within that radio controlled vehicle...
11 Jul 20257min
What are Parma Double Wheel Adapters and How Do They Work?
In the 1980s, Parma created one of the more unusual hop-ups that allows you to put double wheels on both the front and rear axles of your Tamiya Frog, Grasshopper, Hornet, and Blackfoot radio-controll...
10 Jul 20255min
Do Softer Shock Springs Require Harder Damper Oil?
There's a lot of confusion about how radio control model vehicle shock springs and damper oil work together and exactly what each one does. In this episode of the RC Deep Dive we dive deep into what d...
9 Jul 20255min
The Importance of Supporting Your Local RC Hobby Shops and Race Tracks
Why is it so important to support your local R/C model hobby shop and RC car race track, if you are lucky enough to have one (or more). We take a really deep dive why supporting your local experts is ...
8 Jul 20257min
The RestoMod Movement, Blockhead Motors, and Jun Watanabe
The resto-mod (restored and modified with modern hop-ups) movement is highly popular in the vintage RC hobbyist community in recent times. Jun Watanabe's Blockhead Motors seems to be heading that char...
7 Jul 20257min
