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Wednesday, December 17, 2025

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Arrma Typhon Hop Up – 3 Upgrade Ideas

Our picks for performance, durability, and/or appearance upgrades: Arrma Typhon Hop Up Here are our accessory and hop-up picks for today’s popular vehicles that can boost performance, durability and/or appearance and leave you with a sweet custom ride.

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Team Associated SC10 Hop Up

Our picks for performance, durability, and/or appearance upgrades: Team Associated SC10 Hop Up Here are our accessory and hop-up picks for today’s popular vehicles that can boost performance, durability and/or appearance and leave you with a sweet custom ride.

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Putting the scale in a scaler- who’s driving?

We have a “crime” problem in the RC world today and I have to admit that I have committed this serious crime myself. What could this horrific act be? Posting videos of scale RC crawlers... with nobody driving them! What do you see when you look in the windows of your scaler? I hope it doesn’t look like mine.

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Get That Pro Decal Look – Sticker Tips & Tricks

Apply Decals

The terms sticker and decal are used interchangeably these days. Here we are talking specifically about graphic designs and/or words that have an adhesive on one side with a backing paper that is peeled off before application.

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Race Ready Duratrax 835E Review

Duratrax certainly hit a home run when they released the 835 and 835E 1/8-scale buggies, these offer near race worthy performance at a budget price. While the buggies perform well against other similarly priced models, I often wondered if this buggy could make it out on the track against these purely race-bred vehicles.

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Safety First – Lipo Battery Tips and Tricks For Charging, Balancing and Storage

LiPo Balance-Charger-safety

Fear monger! I overheard a conversation regarding LiPo battery packs that almost came across as over the top and scary. By the end, the person asking the questions and looking to make some educated purchases, decided old style NiMH battery packs were the only option because of safety concerns. This may seem extreme to any long time RC enthusiast.

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Vaterra 1986 Chevrolet K-5 Blazer Ascender Hop Up

Our picks for performance, durability, and/or appearance upgrades Here are our accessory and hop-up picks for today’s popular vehicles that can boost performance, durability and/or appearance and leave you with a sweet custom ride. This article was originally published in RC …

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Team Associated SC10B Hop Up

Our picks for performance, durability, and/or appearance upgrades Here are our accessory and hop-up picks for today’s popular vehicles that can boost performance, durability and/or appearance and leave you with a sweet custom ride. This article was originally published in RC …

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Dial in your Steering

Welcome back, fans of all things technical and perhaps considered confusing. This month’s tech topic will touch on an area often overlooked; steering setup and adjustments. Steering settings in your transmitter can literally make or break a setup.

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Go Get Muddy – First Read These Mud Proof Tips & Tricks

Rain, rain, lets go out and play!   Kids love to play in mud, but mud can be an RC racer’s worst nightmare. Mud and water can mean instant death for electronics such as receivers, servos and batteries. Also, there’s …

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5 Vintage Project Builds

There has been a noticeable resurgence in the vintage segment of our hobby and it is not showing any signs of slowing down. The bold distinct looks of these old school rides give them an unquestionable cool factor which is intriguing to hobbyists of all ages. This is especially true for those of use that are recapturing moments from our youth by once again owning the same vehicle that we started out with or even the dream vehicle we just could not afford at that time.

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Painting Distressed Panels & Rivets

I've watched short course trucks evolve from an entry level, semi-scale, basher class to a full-on race class packed with serious competition. As the class evolved, we saw the bodies evolve from scale representations of full size models, to slick, aerodynamic bodies swiss cheesed with vent holes to prevent parachuting.

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F1 Tuning

Tuning your car to track conditions can mean the difference between winning a race to even making the Top 10. It's an important aspect and there's a lot of information both in print and on the web on how to tune your car. Most of the information, however, pertains to offroad buggies, truck and touring cars. That's great, but what about the pan cars or, in the case of this article, F1 cars?

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5 Easy Tips For Better Radio Gear Performance

5 Easy RC Radio System Tips

Hello tech fans! In the world of RC driving there are few things that are more important than the connection you and your RC vehicle have via your transmitter and receiver, properly called the radio system. The receiver is installed in the vehicle and you hold the transmitter. These devices working in unison are a radio system.

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Kyosho 2015 Dodge Challenger Srt Hellcat Fazer Vei Hop Up

Kyosho 2015 Dodge Challenger Srt Hellcat Fazer Vei Hop Up: Our picks for performance, durability, and/or appearance upgrades. Here are our accessory and hop-up picks for today’s popular vehicles that can boost performance, durability and/or appearance and leave you with a sweet custom ride.

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