rc cars?

[simon1]

Hi all as a lighthearted alternative to crashing my heli's :) im thinking of getting a cheap rc car. Around the 1/14 or 1/12 scale mark. Looking at the carisma m14 and its various body shells at the moment, they look good looking little things, they are about £60 all in.
Just want something for a bit of fun nothing serious, anyone give me any advice? don't want to pay more than £100 for one.
Anyone on here use them?

advice appreciated

cheers
simon

[darryl]

IMO not as good as helicopters & can be just as expensive!!

I raced 1/5th scale touring cars, best being 8th in the Irish Tarmac championship :D
I also raced 1/6th & 1/8th scale off road buggies.

I sold everything except my 1/6th scale marder, but its lying in a cupboard in my shed and hasn't even been started since i moved into heli's!

[simon1]

maybe spend the £60 on a new digi servo then:)

cheers mate

[darryl]

its totally up to you mate, but in my honest opinion model cars are just as sore on the wallet to keep well maintained. Especially if you plan on just blasting about the streets where you live etc. Kerbs are so unforgiving ;)

[darryl]

[IMG]http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y101/daddy_sperm/RC%20cars/DSC00263.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y101/daddy_sperm/RC%20cars/DSC00273.jpg[/IMG]

and the last pic as the raptor moved in and i sold most of the kit off

[IMG]http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y101/daddy_sperm/RC%20cars/DSC00272.jpg[/IMG]

[Grant85]

Darryl I notice you have a morley models sticker on the wing of that buggy.If it's the shop I'm thinking off then it's just up the road from me where I got my Rc truggy from,I know the guy who owns the shop.
Cheers Grant :cheers2:

[simon1]

[quote=darryl;350948]its totally up to you mate, but in my honest opinion model cars are just as sore on the wallet to keep well maintained. Especially if you plan on just blasting about the streets where you live etc. Kerbs are so unforgiving ;)[/quote]

yeah i see where you are coming from, i would just be flying around the local street, maybe keep the pennies for a better investment:)

by the way though, your car models do look the part, bit dirty though fella? :)

cheers
simon

[liambaker996]

I have a rc car a hpi mt2 believe me that thing flys we upgraded the engine and everything but if you dont look after them they can cost more than helis

[glen_j]

i have a tunder tiger ssk monster truck and a hpi rs4 nitro car both lots of fun, havent used either for over 6 months now though :( might dig them out for a bit of a run

[Dedcalm]

I have an [URL="http://www.hpiracing.com/kits/snrally/snrally-m.htm"]HPI Super Nitro Rally[/URL], its on its 3rd engine now :eek: It used to get lots of use (I am a kid at heart) but since having my own kids and all the chaps that also used to run their similar cars selling theirs off it rarely comes out to play.

Really I should clean it up and sell it but I am not sure I can part with it :) I have a bag full of spares though so perhaps I should split it and sell it on the bay. Then put that towards the 450 pro that I want/need! LOL

[darryl]

[quote=simon1;351086]
by the way though, your car models do look the part, bit dirty though fella? :)

cheers
simon[/quote]

I'd just be out with the marder hence the wet mess. Thats also why the body in the "family shot" is nice and clean but the rest of the car is minging as I had started to wash her.

[darryl]

[quote=Grant85;350966]Darryl I notice you have a morley models sticker on the wing of that buggy.If it's the shop I'm thinking off then it's just up the road from me where I got my Rc truggy from,I know the guy who owns the shop.
Cheers Grant :cheers2:[/quote]

I got the Morley models sticker with a wing i bought of Ebay - well spotted!!

[Adrian]

Whats the bigger car called coverd in mud:cheers2:

[Holst]

I still have quite a few cars kicking about.

I have two schumacher touring cars a cat 2000 4WD and a RC10B4 2WD. Probably some other that I have forgotten about.
Plus about twenty motors (in various states of disrepair) and about 50 sets of off road tires.

I used to race fairly competitivly when I was 16-17 before I started drinking all weekend and then later going to uni. I did do nationals for a couple of years but I wasnt all that successful.

Ive always wanted to put a 6cell heli battery into a car and drive it down the motorway at 3am (with nightlights) but common sense has prevailed so far :D

[steve b]

i race 1/8 scale off road buggies have 4 losi 2 complete and 2 rolling chassis spare rb engines and shed loads of spares
very expensive hobby ,always stripping and cleaning and setting up thinking of selling the lot and focus on helis