New Hobby… well sort of new!
Sunday, May 18th, 2008Hey now here’s a thing. One of the guys at work has gotten into RC (that’s radio controlled model) rock crawling. He used to be a full-size off-road challenge competitor but had to give it up due to family commitments.
RC stuff costs a ton less and is easy to do on a kitchen table or in a small workshop. You can also involve your kids (I don’t have any yet, but it’d be a useful thing if I did).
So I have 2 projects planned now:
1) Buy a HPI Wheely King RC Monster truck and set about modding it into a demon rock crawler.
2) Restore my brothers old Nissan King Cab Tamiya truck
See, my brother and I did this when we were kids but I thought I’d ‘grown out’ of it. More the fool me, I forgot how much fun building, running, breaking, fixing and servicing these things was. Also now I’ve got access to a workshop and tools, can get metal stock, and am getting a bit handier with metal working, I can do a lot of mods using custom hand crafted parts.
I can’t wait to get started. Stories and pictures are sure to follow!
