Do you dip your toes in other areas of RC?

[HPIguy]

When I was big into it, everything but boats. Crawlers, scalers, race rigs, motorcycles, helis, planes, quads, minis, micros, you name it.

 

[ahr43]

I've always liked flying stuff...I've had a few small helicopters back in the day (like inside only variety). I was just curious how thin some of you spread yourselves within the hobby.

The FPV drone flying looks fun, never tried it

Generally, focus was on the one aspect of the hobby in pursuit at the time. That way, resources were not spread too thin and the hobby stays more fun than work. The only constant through all of this dipping of toes was staying with 1/10 2WD electric ST. Always have one of those at the ready as my interim go-to.

-AC

 

[tntpoof]

I've done alot of other rcing.except crawling.and heli.and Sim on my computers.Also speedball,.pro bass fishing ,snow skiing.

 

[luke66]

Done some drones and planes.

 

[bill_delong]

My very first kit was a Tamiya Hornet that I saved up and bought using my paper route money when I was 13 in 1985. Shortly after that I got into fly by wire 0.49 planes in the school yard. I would then build a couple RC boats to include an air boat.

In the mid 90's I would get into fling 0.40 size planes and became an instructor pilot at the local flying club until my twins were born in 2000.

When my son turned 10 in 2010, we both got into club racing together. I was 50% basher and 50% racer at that point. We got in crawling, drifting and every imaginable race class you can imagine.

One of my favorite RC's to this day is my Surfer which I still maintain and bring to the beach every time we visit the coast!

My son is a grown adult now so I migrated away from bashing and have become a dedicated club racer running 1/8 electric buggy + truggy.

My passion is 1/10 racing, but not enough interest in the area so I am forced to run 1/8 classes.

As my eyesight/reaction skills diminish, I will likely go back to building/flying planes again, hopefully I have another 10-15 competitive years left in me, ha!


*** If anyone is interested in getting to flying planes/helicopters, I would HIGHLY encourage you to use a simulator first!

If I were to buy a sim for myself today I would get this:
https://www.amainhobbies.com/realfl...or-w-interlink-dx-controller-rfl2000/p1453388

I have used the demo of this system at the LHS in my area which helps me "knock off the rust" and confirm it's just like riding a bike, though no where near as exciting as club racing

 

[ahr43]

Hooah! Vid brings back memories of North Shore Oahu. Second half of the vid after fixing Duke's foot to the board again looked like a Banzai Pipeline developing.

That vid for real Bill, you're dipping your toes in RC. Cheers. -AC

 

[WickedFog]

That surfer is cool! I remember it back in the ads and stuff. But I never saw a video of one surfing. I always wondered how well that thing would stay upright. A lot better than I thought it would.

Speaking of memories, a lot of the time, when I'm tinkering on the vintage stuff, I wish RC could be transformed back into what it was back in the 80's and 90's, where everything was a kit. Kits with no crappy electronics packed in with them. It would save us money, and have other benefits. Like it wouldn't be filling up the landfills with RTR servos and ESC's for example

 

[bill_delong]

Best budget brand for 1/10 kits is PR Racing, they offer "sport" versions to keep costs down and they are legit race grade designs with aluminum upgrades available:
https://shop.prracingusa.com/index.php?route=common/home

For on-road kits, you can't beat 3Racing which is the on-road equivalent to PR Racing for off-road:
https://3racing.shop/collections/kit

 

[PewPewChris]

I had one of those Blade copters for inside use. Kinda fun to dive bomb the dogs.

My dogs would have it destroyed in a matter of seconds

 

[CertifiedMike]

My Shedasaurus Rex has knocked down a few drones. Nothing more than a broken prop so far tho!

 

[Lucifur10]

That surfer is cool! I remember it back in the ads and stuff. But I never saw a video of one surfing. I always wondered how well that thing would stay upright. A lot better than I thought it would.

Speaking of memories, a lot of the time, when I'm tinkering on the vintage stuff, I wish RC could be transformed back into what it was back in the 80's and 90's, where everything was a kit. Kits with no crappy electronics packed in with them. It would save us money, and have other benefits. Like it wouldn't be filling up the landfills with RTR servos and ESC's for example

I agree, that was the best part of it. Picking all the electronics and motors for different uses. I always ran Trinity motors with Novak speed controls. Airtronics radios. Building from the ground up was the best. Literally had a thousand parts in different bags it seemed. Absolutely loved the old Associated RC10 kits. The good Ole days.

I agree, that was the best part of it. Picking all the electronics and motors for different uses. I always ran Trinity motors with Novak speed controls. Airtronics radios. Building from the ground up was the best. Literally had a thousand parts in different bags it seemed. Absolutely loved the old Associated RC10 kits. The good Ole days.

I think at one point I had 3 or 4 RC10's set up for different classes and surfaces. An RC12 carpet car and a nitro powered (Nova Rossi) RC500.

 

[Doom!]

I started with flying rc planes, and an indoor helocopter. I ended up buying an rc car just to have something to do on weekends that I couldn't fly. Now I spend more time with my crawlers than anything else but still enjoy flying when I can.

 

[Greywolf74]

I'm mostly ground but I do have 5 helis and eventually I want to branch out in to planes.

 

[22SSragtop]

99% ground RC's with the occasional drone flying here and there.

Ditto

 

[Robert Droner]

I have an RC of pretty much everything from camera & FPV drones to scale models to 3d helis to Traxxas Xmaxx, Dollar Tree foamboard home made wings, RC Paramotor & GyroCopter. RC has been a great lifelong hobby for me since the early 80's.

 

[5Blue]

I started out years ago with an RC dirtbike from Radio shack then years went by and I got a DJI drone then once I broke that I waiting more years till now I am bashing and crawling. Such a fun hobby. It has helped keep me sober for the past 16 months! One day at a time

 

[paytonimusrex]

when I was younger I originally tried getting an rc plane, the one I got was cheap, I went to go first fly it and it basically went up then nose dived into the ground and then was broken, somewhere in the electronics it wouldn’t give the engines like any power