RC cars

GGizmo said:
Where do people buy the cars these days?

The two shops I went to, one in Ashton under Lyne, and the other in Oldham, have closed.

They were dedicated shops, especially the Oldham one as the guy was helping run the Oldham RC club.

Are there dedicated shops still, or is there some good online place's people go to?
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Modelsport
DMS Racing
MBModels
Wheelspin Models
1066RC

I use Wheelspin and Modelsport for bashers and Tamiya.

1066RC as it's local to me and great for racing stuff

DMS is great and has quite a lot of older racing stuff - some smaller brands are well represented here.

MBModels is my go to and the one I probably use the most overall - pricing and customer service are second to none.
 
Mr G said:
Need some advice... I've never owned a Kyosho before and on the verge of purchasing the Optima Mid 2022 or Koswork Edition however, unsure whether to splash the extra cash on this variant yet? Anyway watched a few video reviews on YouTube and the whole package quality looks outstanding! Anyone own or had hands on experience with these kits?
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I got the Koswork edition - I think its worth it for the driveshafts and turnbuckles alone tbh. All the carbon bits are just a bonus.

Depends on pricing really - if the Koswork edition is over £100 more then it might be cheaper to get source essential bits yourself and get a regular kit.

If it had been out at the time I would have got this version personally (Mid 60th anniversary edition): https://wheelspinmodels.co.uk/i/kyo...YEDlXdf1K7wjlIFk1c3BSQfjjQ-JLrhoaAozGEALw_wcB
 
BongoHunter said:
I got the Koswork edition - I think its worth it for the driveshafts and turnbuckles alone tbh. All the carbon bits are just a bonus.

Depends on pricing really - if the Koswork edition is over £100 more then it might be cheaper to get source essential bits yourself and get a regular kit.

If it had been out at the time I would have got this version personally (Mid 60th anniversary edition): https://wheelspinmodels.co.uk/i/kyo...YEDlXdf1K7wjlIFk1c3BSQfjjQ-JLrhoaAozGEALw_wcB
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I can get the Koswork edition for £395 and £310 for the Mid 2022. How does the 60th Anniversary Edition compare to the Koswork and Mid 2022?
 
Thank you for the names of the sites. I've looked at some of them.

The car I used back in the 90s was the Kyosho ZX. I used to race. I'd usually either come top of B group or mid A group.

I remember some of the model names, like the Optima Mid. That had just come on the scene and was a favourite of the top drivers.

The Schumacher brand was good, as well as Losi and Tamiya.
 
Modelsport were good to me and my son a few years back when we made some Tamiya models. Dammit, now you've gone and made me look at their website. I want
 
GGizmo said:
Where do people buy the cars these days?

The two shops I went to, one in Ashton under Lyne, and the other in Oldham, have closed.

They were dedicated shops, especially the Oldham one as the guy was helping run the Oldham RC club.

Are there dedicated shops still, or is there some good online place's people go to?
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model sport and wheelspin models are my go to ones, there is a forum for modelsport as well but its not really that connected https://www.msuk-forum.co.uk/forums/ its a bit low activity nowadays but its a nice rc community :)
 
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Mr G said:
I can get the Koswork edition for £395 and £310 for the Mid 2022. How does the 60th Anniversary Edition compare to the Koswork and Mid 2022?
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60th version has the carbon towers already fitted, and has decent front driveshafts. I think it also has TiN coated shock shafts. The anodizing on most of the metal parts is also a cool gun metalish colour.

The main difference is that it comes with ball diffs and the body from the Optima Pro.
 
BongoHunter said:
60th version has the carbon towers already fitted, and has decent front driveshafts. I think it also has TiN coated shock shafts. The anodizing on most of the metal parts is also a cool gun metalish colour.

The main difference is that it comes with ball diffs and the body from the Optima Pro.
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Ended up nabbing the Optima Mid 2022 for £300 today, did consider all other options but a good deal came up in the end.
 
I went for a RC Crawler meet up at a quarry at the weekend. Been a couple of times before with my 1/24 trucks and had a lot of fun, but I think Sunday was the time to finally convince me to cave and buy/build a 10th scale.
Spoilt for choice on options right now. I'm leaning towards a kit to build up as I'll enjoy the build process, an Element RC Enduro Builders Kit 3 is my top choice right now. Long term I'll probably get a Hobbywing Fusion of some form, but may start with a cheap brushed motor since I've got a hobbywing 1060 lying around spare. Might grab some cheap second hand wheels to tide myself over until I decide on a proper wheel/tyre combo and what sort of looks I want.
Anyone got any other recommendations? (not that I've seen much if any crawler discussion in this thread for some time!)
 
PinkFloyd said:
I went for a RC Crawler meet up at a quarry at the weekend. Been a couple of times before with my 1/24 trucks and had a lot of fun, but I think Sunday was the time to finally convince me to cave and buy/build a 10th scale.
Spoilt for choice on options right now. I'm leaning towards a kit to build up as I'll enjoy the build process, an Element RC Enduro Builders Kit 3 is my top choice right now. Long term I'll probably get a Hobbywing Fusion of some form, but may start with a cheap brushed motor since I've got a hobbywing 1060 lying around spare. Might grab some cheap second hand wheels to tide myself over until I decide on a proper wheel/tyre combo and what sort of looks I want.
Anyone got any other recommendations? (not that I've seen much if any crawler discussion in this thread for some time!)
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The Element Enduro builders kit V3 is a nice bit of kit the new Element Comp Fox version is a decent alternative to it - but about £150 more.

Traxxas TRX4 is probably slightly more capable than the Enduro V3 and can also be had in kit form. The TRX4 is a bit of a benchmark chassis against which most new kits get judged - it's a safe bet.

In my own collection I went for a Tamiya CR01 and a CC02 - neither are more capable than any of the kits above though and took a lot of fiddling with to get decent performance (but thats Tamiya).

There's absolutely stacks of crawlers on the market - but very few in kit form, the forums at rccrawler.com might be worth a bit of browsing. The Vanquish brand are now distributed by Schumacher in the UK so should have good support. Gmade, Axial and RC4WD might be worth watching some reviews for - though historically they've been a bit up and down in quality - I don't know what the latest stuff they do is like.

Something to think about is trail trucks, vs rock crawlers, vs rock racers - and which of those has the most appeal to you. Some kits are definitely more suited to trail running even though they are advertised as rock crawlers. Lots of kits are advertised as a crawler but are only really suited to one of the the above categories with very few chassis really be great at all 3 types of running.
 
BongoHunter said:
Traxxas TRX4 is probably slightly more capable than the Enduro V3 and can also be had in kit form. The TRX4 is a bit of a benchmark chassis against which most new kits get judged - it's a safe bet.
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Interesting, I can see it's more capable in terms of features with the 2 speed gearbox, diffs and portals. But from what I gather it's less capable in terms of high end rock crawling and so on. Honestly I'm kinda torn...
On one hand, having a truck with those extra features to do a bit of everything sounds appealing, but on the other hand it's a lot of extra cash and I really don't like Traxxas as a company nor want to pay for their electronics in a kit which I'd not be using long term anyway. But that extra cash skips some faff around picking a body and wheels... Choices choices.
Pretty much everyone at the weekend was recommending the Elements, although in hindsight I didn't ask the chaps running the TRX4s :D

I'm leaning towards Rock Crawler primarily, but likely with a full body that can atleast pass off as a reasonable trail truck. Another option I guess is to save some cash initially and pick up some cheap RTR / second hand and just customise it as I see fit.
 
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