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Those of you Tanner Foust fans, he's made it past round 1 in Gymkhana Grid. Really do hope he gets a medal, preferably a gold.

Honestly, I'd love to see you put the Metal Mulisha scheme on that. Would make it look 100X more fierce IMO

I bet anything Rockstar Energy, or even Octane Academy would look pretty sweet, considering O.A. uses Raptors in the show.

Backspace will flip it in it's current spot, and I will send it back to the spawn. Hope this helps, and good luck to ya.

Well, I was planning on dropping the Sports Package from Comcast, anyway. Looks like this is the final nail in the coffin.

Looks great.  Only problem is the sound.  I'm getting the starter sounds, but no idling or throttle after the trucks is started.

Found this out last night.... No motoX best trick. Apparently it's too dangerous. Looks like I won't be watching the Xgames this year

What?  They're going to take out Moto X Best Trick because it's to dangerous, meanwhile we watched Bob Burnquist break his nose after falling from the Big Air ramp, where people are always dislocating shoulders and, 6 years earlier, having someone fall 47 feet from the quarter pipe. 

Well, there goes another one of my highlights, as well.

Anyone else out there watching X Games this week? (Aug 1st - Aug 4th)

If so, what events are you most interested in, and who will you be rooting for to get a medal?

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For me, I've always enjoyed the Motocross Events and Rallycross.  That and the new Gymkhana Grind event should be interesting. 

As for people I'm pulling for:  Nate Adams and Tanner Foust FTW!

Continuation From 25:  I also had no idea about the Raptors.  As for the Fiberwerx body, I think a monster truck could pull it off.  I'd love to see someone take a crack at that version.  (Think John's was a different one, from the conversation.)

the cheap plastic skate kicker ramps work pretty well if you don't have space to leave something set permanent,

the big plastic nascars that you can find at toystores for $5 make about the cheapest crunch cars out there unless you have a track nearby and can get a donation of worn out race bodies donated...

 

baseball diamonds can be a fun place to play depending on the park... the pitchers mound/block often gets some interesting flight angles when i nail it with my TwinForce...

 

Breakages will happen with RC, trust me I've done it for 20 yrs now... and no offense to you traxxas owners but your rigs will break easier than anything else on the market...PERIOD  I've had no expirence with the wheely kings to tell ya how they handle impacts. but I can tell you my Kyoshyo Twin force has taken everything I've ever thrown it at...including literally throwing the truck across a parking lot on a bet that it would survive...$30 to my pocket that day so if you want something tough as nails find one on ebay, should be pretty cheap since no one seems to remember that they ever existed haha

Trust me on the Traxxas part.  I've replaced just about everything on my older Stampede.  I even had to throw in a brushless motor a few years back, 'cause the reverse gear blew out of it...and I wanted to go faster. 

As for jumping, they aren't intended for it.  You can get away with the skateboard ramps, like Pitbul mentioned, but I wouldn't do it 24/7.  My only advice: buy body pins in bulk. 

Yeah, I usually run fine on my own, when no body's watching (Yeah, it sounds silly.)  but as soon as I enter the server, everything drops. 

Got all kindas of loose in the yellow lane, probably ran over a 21 second pass...but the red lane wasn't bad.  It'll be close.

I just can't get a grasp on racing, no matter what I do.  Always end up screwing something up.  Oh well, wait and hope, just like always.

I have to go with CVH.  He has been involved in many teams and driven many classic names.  He's been extremely impressive since he started driving.  I still think he would have won something the year he was driving Excaliber but unfortunately he wasn't invited to the finals that year.

Norm had to step out of Batman during Freestyle, so they filled CVH in Batman, at least for the freestyle portion.

If I understand what you're saying, I think you want to go to "cinecam", not props. I've played around a bunch with the on-board cams to get better viewing angles. I believe it is the second number. 

That would be it!  I can't thank you enough. Now once I figure out where all the numbers move the cameras,  hopefully I can get a chassis cam here, shortly. 

Ideas for ramps? I have an old Traxxas Stampead and I just took a long 2x4 and put a eice of plywood on top of it for a small ramp. That or a nice tree stump worked well, and provided some entertainment.

So yet again here's something I've started to work on. I still have yet to add the vents in the hood.

You, sir, deserve a medal!  I can't tell if it's the angle of the pic, or me and my horrible eye sight, but I think the front nose piece needs to come down a bit further, not much, but it's noticeable.  I can't imagine how long it took to model that grille in.

I'd say Weenk, in my opinion. He's preformed very solidly in past years, won numerous events, and beaten out Tom and Dennis, doing so. Unfortunatly for him, he's had many mechanical problems at Vegas. I'm sure if he gets a solid run at Vegas this year, he's got it made.

Neil's a great driver, on par with Dennis and Tom in most cases, but for some reason he wasn't invited to Vegas in 2013. That throws a red flag for me. He's still highly capable of a title, when he get's invited.

Mark has potential, but he hasn't out preformed the top guns many times. A few more years, and he might be there, but not yet.

We all know Ryan's a chip off the old block, but I still feel he needs more seat time. He's constantly showing that he can compete with the top drivers, but I don't see it happening yet. Then again, they did say that about Adam...

I think Linsey's the next guy in line. Just my overall thouht.

Alright I need a hand here.  I'm trying to move the on-board camera on my custom truck up to the roof.  The truck is basicly a re-painted Metal Mulisha, minus the flag.  I've taken a look at the "Moving Props" tutorial, but I'm still clueless on whereto go in the .truck file.  I know it's in the props section, but I have no idea which line I'm supposed to be in.  Can anyone shed a bit of light on this for me?

Seems legit. Count me in.

Maybe an oil fire or something?  I know they've had them say, when the trucks rolled over and what not, but that's an interesting place to have one.

If that's C3-PO, I wanna know what R2-D2's gonna be.

I am actually 10x better in the red lane...

Not sure which lane takes the inside turn right after the start, believe it's the red lane.  Anyhow, that lane is very simple for me.

Just one question concerning racing, Mark.  Will we be able to double both car stacks, what was done likewise at the Custom Series Finale, or do we need to hit both of 'em?

Of topic but, whats the difference between "La" and "El"? El is The, if I still retainded a bit of 7th grade spanish, but, I don't temeber much.

Mike Russell

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