Traxxas “BackSlush” by Scott Oney [Reader's Ride]
Scott Oney is a Traxxas fan, and hailing from Spirit Lake, ID he knows a bit about snow. He decided to combine the two into the ground-up build you see before you, which Scott has dubbed the BackSlush!...
View ArticleMattZilla / Axial Wraith U4RC Rig Reader’s Ride
Mike Bowman runs this rig at R/C Excitement in New England, where he piloted his machine to a respectable third place finish at his first race and looks to keep improving. His MattZilla creation is far...
View ArticlePro-Line PRO-MT Now Available as “Pro-Built” RTR With Castle & Airtronics Gear
Pro-Line is at it again and the company is now offering its PRO-MT monster truck is Ready to Run form. This isn’t a down-spec version of the truck; the “Pro Built” PRO-MT is hand-assembled in house at...
View ArticleTraxxas XO-1 Hot Wheels Hypercar by Marcus White [Readers Ride]
What caught our attention first about Marcus White’s Traxxas XO-1 was its hot paint job–which we discovered upon reading his letter is not paint at all, but a custom vinyl wrap–that decorates this...
View ArticleNic Case Signing Autographs
Nic Case, designer, builder & driver of the Fastest Battery-Powered R/C car in the World, will be at the Castle Creations Inc. booth signing autographs and taking pics Saturday, 1-4 PM and Sunday,...
View ArticleCastle Creations Announces New Mamba X Series
The Mamba Series of speed controls are legendary, and now the company is poised to bring their newest speed controls to the market with the release of their new Mamba X Series. We can’t wait to try...
View ArticleCastle Creations Releases New Monster X Speed Control
The Monster X is the latest in the Monster line from Castle Creations and it’s designed to operate big power vehicles such as 1/8-scale buggies and truggies, on-road cars and monster trucks. The...
View ArticleAxial Wraith Corvette Conversion by Dan Boyle [Reader's Ride]
We featured another of Dan Boyle’s creations a few months ago, and every time we get an email from him with a new project we know it’s going to be something special. This time he sent photos of this...
View ArticleCastle Creations Mamba Micro X Packs Big Power in Small Package
Minis can be a blast especially when space for action is limited. Castle knows how much fun it can be and have brought power to those who won’t settle for mediocre. The Castle Mamba Micro X lays down a...
View ArticleTraxxas/Axial Hybrid Scout 80 by Scott Lempert [Reader's Ride]
We could probably do an entire column just on Scott Lempert’s scale projects, so prolific is he with off-season building. One in particular that caught our eye was this ’63 International Scout 80—not...
View ArticleAxial SCX10 Salvage Truck by Micheal Matthews [READERS RIDE]
Micheal gets big points for originality with his Axial SCX10-based salvage truck. He only shared a few details — the outstanding photos do most of the talking for him. He chose an Axial 55T motor for...
View ArticleAxial Racing Exo Terra Trophy Truck by Richard Derry [READER'S RIDE]
Richard Derry liked the nimble speed and scale character of the Axial Racing Exo Terra buggy, but he wanted something more unique so he converted his into a lookalike Trophy Truck inspired by the...
View ArticleMattZilla / Axial Wraith U4RC Rig Reader’s Ride
Mike Bowman runs this rig at R/C Excitement in New England, where he piloted his machine to a respectable third place finish at his first race and looks to keep improving. His MattZilla creation is far...
View ArticleCustom Chevy S10 Crawler by Travis Johnson [READER'S RIDE]
Travis tells us his priorities were “low and stable” for his custom project, so he began with a set of Brazin Scale RC high/low chassis rails. He then hung a Brazin custom-fabricated tube truggy back...
View ArticleTraxxas Revo 1/5-scale Conversion by Rick Ortega [READER'S RIDE]
Rick was inspired to build his own oversized Revo after reading Kevin Hetmanski’s Project Traxxas Revo 3.3 back in 2015. Rick had a tired old stock Revo with a blown engine and badly in need of an...
View ArticleApocalypse-ready Traxxas Summit by Eddie Reyes [READER'S RIDE]
When Eddie wanted to doomsday-prep his Traxxas Summit, he made a visit to his buddy William Wegman from Amarillo hobby house in Amarillo Texas! Pro-Line’s Apocalypse body sets the tone, but they decked...
View ArticleTraxxas Telluride Bronco [READER’S RIDE]
Henry Brady liked the look of the ’73 Ford Bronco body for the HPI Crawler King, so he adapted it to fit his Traxxas Telluride with some careful cutting and trimming. To give it the right stance he...
View ArticleAxial Deadbolt Trail Beast [READER’S RIDE]
Greg Zawatski’s Axial SCX10 Deadbolt may have started as a stock RTR, but it didn’t stay that way for long. He wanted to take its trail capabilities to the next level so he started tossing upgrades at...
View ArticleCustom Scale Little Red Wagon [READER’S RIDE]
Scott Lempert, one of our scratch-build regulars, is back at it with another tribute to a drag-racing classic: The Little Red Wagon Dodge A100 — the legendary wheelie machine driven by Bill Golden from...
View ArticleAxial Rubicon Unlimited [READER’S RIDE]
Todd Henderson’s SCX10 started off as a trade he received, that already had SSD D60 axles, a JR brick battery plate, a Holmes Hobbies TorqueMaster controller, a Castle 10a BEC and a Hitec 7980th servo...
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