Half8 & HPI Monster Video.........lots of mud!

ph2t · Post by **ph2t** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 5:04 pm

Betty.k and I took our offroaders out for some bashing the other day and took some footage of the jumps and other crap we got up to. To say it was a muddy day is a slight understatement as I'm sure you can tell from the pics below.....

My Kyosho Mini-Inferno, slightly dirty, lol...

Betty's HPI Monster Truck....

Group pic!

And here's some video, got some great jumps in there. It's a pity that we didn't capture all the good jumps (isn't it always the way). This footage was taken a bit into our first packs so we were still warming up. By the 2nd pack I had gotten the hang of the throttle control in mid jump and how important it is for mid air stability on these crazy buggers.....

Video, WMV format, 8MB.

http://www.woahnelly.com/stuff/18t/allovertheplace.wmv

Enjoy!

ph2t.

sg219 · Post by **sg219** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 5:16 pm

Good and dirty.

Looks like someone got a fun play spot.

ph2t · Post by **ph2t** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 5:24 pm

I'll tell ya man, this half8 kicks some serious arse! The only thing that broke was the antenna tube. My old RC18T wouldn't last a day with what I do to it. The Half8 is a VERY durable beast! no shit...... It sooooooo kanes the 18T.....

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 8:44 pm

That little Inferno is a little missle.

Cool spot you guys got there. How is that these perfect jumps for RCs came to be?

ph2t · Post by **ph2t** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 10:33 pm

actually betty spotted this place man, he rides past there often...... 1st time I've had some real practice with jumps, it's really cool, a whole different style of driving than what I'm used to....

betty.k · Post by **betty.k** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 12:06 am

crazydave wrote:Cool spot you guys got there. How is that these perfect jumps for RCs came to be?

there's lotsa paved walking/cycling tracks around my area, i watched this place evolve over the last 6 months.
this one was an old railway line so it's set into the ground. that means there's lotsa vegetation and dirt running along either side of the path.
so bit by bit trails started appearing through the undergrowth, then a jump sprung up, then a set of doubles, pretty soon it's grown into a full blown ghetto bmx/mtb track!

it was my first time rc'ing on big jumps and i gotta say it's lotsa fun! beats doing it on a bike, plenty easy and totally painless! (although it got close when ph2t decided to fix his aerial tube behind a jump!

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cleaning mud off rc's, this is a new one

canabits · Post by **canabits** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 7:03 pm

great clip guys. Good to see a little off roading

Any chance of a Mini-Inferno or other mini ride making it's way to your garage betty.k??

Countdown has begun... less than 5 months before I land downunda for more than a vacation.

betty.k · Post by **betty.k** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 10:38 pm

Any chance of a Mini-Inferno or other mini ride making it's way to your garage betty.k??

it's tempting but the rs4 mt is just too good! you can see in the vid how stable it is (bad driving aside!) i'm not sure but i think it was the first "truggy". it was a discontinued item by the time the word came about.
i've also got an rs4 rally which is just a jacked up touring car that i run for speed.

maybe i'll get into a 1:28 4wd for fun but for real dirt action the big fellers can't be beat!

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 6:40 am

betty.k wrote: i'm not sure but i think it was the first "truggy".

Nah, "Truggy" is not a new term at all. The earlist truggies came about in the early 80s, with the popularity of racing Tamiya's Blackfoot, people started putting truck wheels and bodies on their RC10 buggies. The first purpose built truggy was the Team Losi, but by this point they were already becoming known as stadium trucks.

Its basically the same deal all over again now, due to the popularity of racing T-Maxxes, and other monsters, people started putting the truck tires on 1/8th scale buggies, and now we have truggies again, but I personally believe once more purpose built kits come out, like Hot Bodies Lightning Stadium GT, and Thunder Charger is also calling their entry into the market a stadium truck, thne we'll probably be just refering to them as 1/8th scale stadium trucks.

I wish I could say its the first baja bug on a stadium truck chassis, but Tamiya, and Kyosho were already there. Dahm's offered a couple Baja Bug bodies for the Losi.

But it is a real cool car, I'm still jealous, I want one. I think the reason it was short lived, is because it's like a 4wd stadium truck, and there wasn't really any class for that around here. Everyone at the track was racing 2wd Associated or Losi, trucks or buggies. Them intranets weren't really big back then either so most people stuck to brands that the shop carried spare parts for. I believe the racing community was generating more sales than the basher community at that time, so a real cool car got looked over.

betty.k · Post by **betty.k** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 2:27 am

cool, thanks fer the skoolin'

beyond 3 years ago my rc knowledge was limited to what i read on the box of "the frog" as a teenybopper

i'd bet that if the rs4 mt was released now it would sell well, as a kit it had almost everything you'd want, just needed bb's and a cf chassis brace. i modified the steering and that's it

i rode home via that track today, there were a coupla mtb kiddies with a shovel working on another set of doubles

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 7:44 am

It is available as a gas truck:
http://www2.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wt ... XFSK5&P=ML

I bet you could have some fun with one of those.

betty.k · Post by **betty.k** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 2:48 pm

i'll bet ya right!

it's slightly different to the rs4 mt, longer wheelbase, etc. but fortunately some parts from the mt2 fit the rs4 mt

if i wuz gunna dip my toe in the gas pool it'd be a hellfire

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Half8 & HPI Monster Video.........lots of mud!

Half8 & HPI Monster Video.........lots of mud!

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