Guess who's back!?
04-12-2011, 01:01 AM
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Guess who's back!?
Hello boys and girls (and others)!
First a big hi to everyone who knows me on this forum, I used to be very active. I took a year out and to be honest, I've been playing WoW. Don't know if there are any other WoW players, but I had become heavily involved in raiding and for a while there it took over my life. I was raid coordinator for a big guild and vice GM, so I had lots of responsibilities, and we did well, but the time has come to call it a day on the raiding I think.
So I'm stepping down from my raiding career now and want to get back into my lifelong hobby for the summer, so here I am! RCU has kindly retained my status for now, and I assume I will be able to carry on moderating, but if not, that's ok too, I'm just glad to be back!
To those of you thinking 'who the hell is this!?', I am an RC hobbyist 24 years, used to race 1/10th on road and a little 1/8th off road, then got into large scale a few years ago and never looked back. Before taking a year out I was a moderator here for over 2 years.
I plan to be restoring my surviving gassers this summer and probably do some 1/8th truggy racing too. I still have a 5T prospec with a Ninja .28 in it which I plan to run.
Hope everyone is well and missed me
See you around and on the dirt [>:] Here are some reminders of my babies...
My FG MT Beetle
The tonegawa servo install in the Beetle
Baja 5b - now gone but not forgotten
Some of the pics of the TB2
First a big hi to everyone who knows me on this forum, I used to be very active. I took a year out and to be honest, I've been playing WoW. Don't know if there are any other WoW players, but I had become heavily involved in raiding and for a while there it took over my life. I was raid coordinator for a big guild and vice GM, so I had lots of responsibilities, and we did well, but the time has come to call it a day on the raiding I think.
So I'm stepping down from my raiding career now and want to get back into my lifelong hobby for the summer, so here I am! RCU has kindly retained my status for now, and I assume I will be able to carry on moderating, but if not, that's ok too, I'm just glad to be back!
To those of you thinking 'who the hell is this!?', I am an RC hobbyist 24 years, used to race 1/10th on road and a little 1/8th off road, then got into large scale a few years ago and never looked back. Before taking a year out I was a moderator here for over 2 years.
I plan to be restoring my surviving gassers this summer and probably do some 1/8th truggy racing too. I still have a 5T prospec with a Ninja .28 in it which I plan to run.
Hope everyone is well and missed me
See you around and on the dirt [>:] Here are some reminders of my babies...My FG MT Beetle
The tonegawa servo install in the Beetle
Baja 5b - now gone but not forgotten
Some of the pics of the TB2
04-12-2011, 04:43 AM
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RE: Guess who's back!?
Welcome back to rcu foxy i am bashing and racing the redcat rampage MT and having a blast with the 1/5 scales with my son ( rob64n ) and rob m has helped us get into redcat big time. looking forward to the 2011 fun runs at large scale rc and the power jam race in june
04-12-2011, 05:02 AM
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Foxy your back !... I thought you fell off the face of the earth.....or it had something to do with when Greece was in trouble last year... any how glad your back
04-12-2011, 05:10 AM
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Greece is always in trouble! lol, it just became public knowledge last year 
Giorgo! Yeh man, back on track Gonna be fixing the FG for fun and running a few races in the 1/8th truggy class hopefully.
Giorgo! Yeh man, back on track
Gonna be fixing the FG for fun and running a few races in the 1/8th truggy class hopefully.
04-12-2011, 07:48 AM
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ORIGINAL: Foxy
Greece is always in trouble! lol, it just became public knowledge last year
Giorgo! Yeh man, back on track Gonna be fixing the FG for fun and running a few races in the 1/8th truggy class hopefully.
Greece is always in trouble! lol, it just became public knowledge last year
Giorgo! Yeh man, back on track
Gonna be fixing the FG for fun and running a few races in the 1/8th truggy class hopefully.
.I have a friend who's running 1/8 truggies.I have seen some of the X-rays he has...They are really nice,but i'm not going back to nitro...A nitro heli is more than enough[>:]
04-12-2011, 08:38 AM
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Welcome back Foxy. Good thing you got off of WoW, I had a nasty habit awhile back from it.
Since you were gone I picked up my own FG MT. I remember years ago asking you questions about it.
Since you were gone I picked up my own FG MT. I remember years ago asking you questions about it.
04-12-2011, 02:11 PM
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ORIGINAL: Foxy
and we did well, but the time has come to call it a day on the raiding I think.
and we did well, but the time has come to call it a day on the raiding I think.
04-13-2011, 08:54 AM
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Yeh. lol. Look at that one wheel spinning. No diff locking effect ftw! What cars have you still got?
EDIT: Remember filming this?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il2VMtpdCuE[/youtube]
EDIT: Remember filming this?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il2VMtpdCuE[/youtube]
04-13-2011, 09:02 AM
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Nice work! Missed my FG the most. Watching that vid again (check edit in post above) makes me wanna go down to the garage and start the restoration right now. Have no idea what it will need. I'ts been sitting 13 months untouched, maybe longer, along with all my other models. With a bit of luck a few battery cycles on the charger and I might be good to go.
04-13-2011, 09:19 AM
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I like it a lot. The gearing is still messed up with it because it originally had street tires on it, so I put some lowering gearing on it but its still not stock (will take care of it easter weekend). So in turn its under powered and I got one that came with a CY23 so it isnt a very powerful motor either (will be changed this summer).
I paid 350 for the thing, so I guess you get what you pay for.
I paid 350 for the thing, so I guess you get what you pay for.
