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[Gimpdiggity]

Anyone here into RC vehicles??  It's my main hobby, and between my boats, cars, trucks, and aircraft I currently have 19 different RC vehicles. 

This is the newest one I have purchased, and it should be here this coming Monday.  It's a Ken Block HPI WR8 rally car.  Very cool vehicle, used for both on and off road driving.



This is my Traxxas Summit, probably one of my pride and joy vehicles.  This one was extremely expensive, but well worth it.  It's got so much technology in it...remote controlled locking differentials, remote gear changing, 4 wheel drive, cantilever suspension system like that found on F1 race cars.  Very nice truck. 



This is a scale Southampton tugboat that I bought for my wife to drive while we're at the boat club in the summer.  Nice little boat, very well detailed. 



This is an Axial SCX-10 scale trail truck with a Duratrax Baja Bug body on it.  It's a really nice rig as well, very realistic.  Four wheel drive, two solid axles, four linked suspension...just like a real 4x4.  My wife has kind of taken this one from me...she drives it while we're hiking on the mountain bike trails. 



This is my HPI Crawler King.  Another four wheel drive solid axle truck.  I bought this one for myself to use on the trails, seeing as my wife has taken my Monster Bug...



This is my HPI Wheely King...another solid axle 4x4, but this one is designed to go a bit faster than the previous two.  This is one of my favorite trucks...lots of fun to drive. 



This is my Traxxas 1/10th scale Grave Digger Monster Jam replica.  I bought this, and one for my wife, and we are going to be building a Monster Jam stadium in the backyard to drive them around in.  Should be a lot of fun. 



This is my wife's truck that she'll be driving in our stadium...Traxxas 1/10th scale Son Uva Digger Monster Jam replica. 



This is my ECX Torment short course truck.  SCTs are designed to be raced, and they can be pretty fun when out on a track with a bunch of other similar trucks.  This one is interesting...see, I had purchased many ECX vehicles before I got sick this past summer and had to sell them off to pay some bills off.  Well, I had written a bunch of good FAQs on a website for the ECX trucks, and out of nowhere I got contacted by the guy in charge of the ECX Division of Horizon Hobby.  They wanted to give me a truck to test out and write a few thoughts about.  So, I got this truck, along with a bunch of accessories (over $500 total if purchased) for absolutely nothing...and I got to keep it.  It also was the very first version of this truck used by anyone outside of Horizon Hobby.  Very cool. 



This is my Tower Hobbies Power Vee, fast electric boat.  It's not the fastest in the world, but it's quicker than my other boats, and it's a lot of fun.  I've got it decked out with Ron Jon Surf Shop motif. 



This is a Ford Bronco that I built, pulling an HPI Mini Trophy Truck, on a custom built trailer. 



Last, but absolutely not least, is my pride and joy...my Aquacraft Bristol Bay, which has been customized and renamed Catherine, after my wife.  This boat is a 1/25th scale fishing boat that I have done a lot to.  I've reworked the hull to make it appear more weathered, along with the cabin and deck.  I've removed some of the sails from it so that it won't list in the wind.  I've added a radar dish that actually spins, a powered life raft to the front of it, two crew members, a ladder, some port holes, doorknobs, lights inside the cabin, and an iPod Touch powered sound system that plays an endless loop of a diesel engine to make the boat sound like it's actually running. 



I get more questions asked, and have met more people at the boat club, when driving this boat.  Even though it's not fast, all of it's accessories really make people fall in love with it when they see it.  Here is my favorite picture of any of my RC vehicles...this is Catherine, that Bristol Bay, one night this past fall...






Thanks for looking everyone.  I just thought I'd share one of my other hobbies!!

Jeff

[InmemoryofRomeo]

Wow


I have a remote control five foot long, flying shark, clownfish and orca... They aren't very realistic

[Crewella]

Blimey - that's an impressive collection!! 

[Gimpdiggity]

Wow


I have a remote control five foot long, flying shark, clownfish and orca... They aren't very realistic

I know the devices you're talking about, and they are really cool.  I would get one, but inside my house, flying them would be a bit tough.  If I had a gymnasium that I had access to, I'd be all over one!!

I've been on a quest for a good long time for something I saw about a year ago.  A gentlman had built a servo controlled RC shark, 8 feet in length, that actually moved through the water by moving it's tail from side to side like a real shark.  It was a dynamic submarine, which means it controlled it's depth by having a relatively neutral, or slightly positive, buoyancy so that it just BARELY floated on top of the water...but then when it was moving forward, other servos controlled it's side fins to adjust the flow of water and make the shark dive or surface.  When I found this, there were two of them on Ebay that were custom made and worked great...but at the time were well out of my price range.  I told myself, however, that if I ever found another one I would buy it regardless of how much it cost. 

I suppose I could attempt to build one, but it would be a project probably a couple of summers long...and I don't have the time to devote to that right now!!  Maybe in the future, though...

Blimey - that's an impressive collection!! 

Thank you.  That's not even all of it.  There's one more truck (you can just barely see it, the HPI Mini Trophy Truck that's on the trailer in the one photo), three more boats (one is just a project right now, I'm turning it into a ghost ship, with working smoke machines and everything), and my small airplane...but it's incredibly difficult to fly and get pictures of an airplane at the same time, so I don't have really any photos of it. 

I've also been through about 25 other vehicles that I have bought and sold over the last two years.  Actually, that Bronco that I posted the picture of was sold recently, but it was an absolute work of art, so I still have a lot of pictures of it. 

My next purchase will most likely be another large monster truck, followed by a submarine.  However, if I can find that shark I mentioned above...it will be mine!!!