As most of you probably know Traxxas has been a leader in the R/C industry for years with their monster trucks and ballistically fast brushless truggies. And we are also guessing most of you know Traxxas stepped away from their speedy ways when they recently released the TRX-4 RTR R/C Rock Crawler. In true Traxxas style they hit it out of the park with...
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The scale R/C craze is alive and well! Redcat Racing recently released their new Gen8 Scout II RTR with a slew of new features, most notably portal axles. If you are not familiar with the term “portal axles” if refers to the solid axles as having extra gear reduction at all four corners. Basically each axle end has its own “gearbox”...
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We have been chugging along with our Gmade GOM kit build behind the scenes lately and it is time to wrap this R/C rock racer up! In this installment we will get into painting body panels, detailing the interior, assembly the tube chassis, and finish it up by mounting the tires to the beadlock wheels. The “first-run” anticipation is mounting as...
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Welcome to Part 4 of the RPP Hobby Gmade GOM kit build! In this installment we will cover how to assemble the driveshaft, install the axles, and build the shocks. Step by step we are inching closer to finishing up this rock racer. Which means it is almost time for us to head out for a shakedown run. Needless to say we are always excited for quality wheel...
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It’s time for part 3 of our Gmade GOM rock buggy kit build! In the previous two installments of our build series we covered building the axles, transmission, and transfer case. In this installment of our series we will cover building the suspension links, installing the transmission and transfer case, as well as start assembling the chassis....
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