How many Runners do you have?

[Sogogi]

1 hour ago, Gebbly said:

Firstly apologies for the wiring, I know its a mess. The next build will involve soldering and an attempt to shorten and tidy wires. The photo quality is so-so but hopefully you can make out the Quicrun 1080 is on the top at the back of the chassis and the receiver is just in front of it. The 1080's on/off button is on top of the rear wheely bar. I installed longer arms to give it a wider track for more stability in corners and this meant the lower bodies wheel arches didnt foul on the tires.

 

Similar to mine, but i think wider stance + body with lower height gives more sporty look. I use stock fj cruiser body. Thanks for sharing!

[Nikko85]

16 or so.

I've got six quick drives (three buggies, three monster trucks), each with modern electronics, two MF01x (stadium truck and trail truck), two GF01s (crawler and heavy dump),  a CW01 Pumpkin, Two Nikko lorries, a Nikko Stadium truck, a MT12 Monster Truck and Carrera Yoshi go kart.

One of the Nikko Lorries and the GF01 dump Truck live at work as we use them for a structures workshop, so 14 runners in my house.

I posted on this before, it's more than  I need as many are duplicates with different bodies and I have little time to run with a two year old (who is scared of them) but planning on giving many to him, heck I will probably just start an RC car club for him and his friends. 😁

I have tried to sell, but frankly I can't sell for what the electrics cost, so might just box a few up.

The GF01 Jeep, MF01x stadium and one QD would really cover all the bases I have.

 

 

 

 

[Super ally]

9 runners with 1 shelf queen.The shelf queen is an original fox which has never been run.I plan on getting a blackfoot and maybe a hotshot 2 then thats it for me.

[Rinskie]

2. I have 2 runners. 

[markbt73]

At the moment, exactly one: a scruffy bitsa Hornet. Everything else is still in boxes at the new house, waiting for us to finish the move, and for me to build my new workshop/garage where the other 50 or so will be housed.

However, the plan is to run them all, eventually. I think I may be close to being done buying cars; now I want to spend a decade or two wearing them out.

[RyantheRed]

I think a better question is what is your favorite runner. I dont know how many runners i have but its like 20+ and about that many projects. Cars we actually drive often is more like 10 or so. My favorite runners are exc torment 2wd trophy trucks. I have 2 and me and my son bash the living snot out of them. They are brushless and very fast and extreamly robust so we dont be carefull at all. Parts are cheap and plentiful. Here is Alex's. This is a rare site, Its usually flying through the air end over end at my face. The wife and dog run from us when we pull them out to "play" 🤣 the wife usually runs the mad van when she is brave enough to play. Me and the boy dont get to play with the mad van very often, the wife has that one pretty much claimed. She calls it her "raper van". The koysho mad van is an amazing runner in total stock form. (The brushless version) the consistent tamiya we run all the time is the DT03. They are robust and hard to break as well.  We live in the desert so most of what we do involves sand rocks and dirt. Touring cars are shelfers here. Even our asphalt is too rought for them sadly.

 

[toyolien]

I recently culled the number of cars I have. I sold about 8 or 9 that either weren't getting used, had never been used or were still kits. I'm now down to (and happy with) these, which are all runners.

XV-02

Boomerang

Lunchbox

Wild One

BBX (to be finished)

Optima Mid (to be finished

Avante 2011 (to be built)

Egress (to be built)

That will do me. I have my eye on a couple of other cars, but I'm now operating a strict 'one in, one out' policy if I decide on building something else.

The last few years I've been (like a lot of others I guess), chasing parts for builds that I'd seen other people build. And, once everything arrived I lost interest, usually. So, now I'm only focussing on what I would like to drive and see how that goes this year. I've never considered myself as a 'collector' so it should be ok.

I would really like to start doing some vintage racing, but my local club closed last year (after 34 years) so I need to find somewhere else. But as everything is now organised on Facebook rather than club websites, it leaves me in the dark. Maybe I should put my principles aside and join in.

[OgNewb]

On 5/9/2024 at 6:42 PM, Gebbly said:

Firstly apologies for the wiring, I know its a mess. The next build will involve soldering and an attempt to shorten and tidy wires. The photo quality is so-so but hopefully you can make out the Quicrun 1080 is on the top at the back of the chassis and the receiver is just in front of it. The 1080's on/off button is on top of the rear wheely bar. I installed longer arms to give it a wider track for more stability in corners and this meant the lower bodies wheel arches didnt foul on the tires.

 

I hate to shorten esc wires. Lots of times need to move it and wires are short.

[OgNewb]

On 5/9/2024 at 6:42 PM, Gebbly said:

Firstly apologies for the wiring, I know its a mess. The next build will involve soldering and an attempt to shorten and tidy wires. The photo quality is so-so but hopefully you can make out the Quicrun 1080 is on the top at the back of the chassis and the receiver is just in front of it. The 1080's on/off button is on top of the rear wheely bar. I installed longer arms to give it a wider track for more stability in corners and this meant the lower bodies wheel arches didnt foul on the tires.

 

I hate to shorten esc wires. Lots of times need to move it and wires are short.

[BuggyDad]

8 hours ago, toyolien said:

But as everything is now organised on Facebook rather than club websites, it leaves me in the dark. Maybe I should put my principles aside and join in.

I'm not a Facebook user either. But I think you can be "on facebook" without reading or having any involvement in what you don't want anything to do with. Unfortunately I haven't quite managed this because I joined various local community groups for a work reason 🙄. I should just leave them but since I so rarely open the app there doesn't seem much point!

Back on topic, I have about 11 runners (in build order): DT-03, XV-01, Mid, M-08, Element Enduro, TT-02SR, TT-02 rally, Super Falcon, BBX, Mohawk, TD4. 

That's too many really. I don't run the TT-02s. I might give them another chance but perhaps I should sell them. I am just not really someone who trades stuff. Other than them though I think pretty much each car either has a bit of a niche of its own or remains something of a personal work in progress. For now. 

Then I have some projects: B64 truggy thing, Stadium Blitzer, TD2.

Some unbuilt: another XV-01, an XV-02 and a Boomerang. 

And nothing that's a "display only" kind of thing. That's not really me although I can imagine some of the above might get promoted (/relegated?) to shelf status because they have a place as personal projects (and maybe are hard to sell because they're so non-standard) but are superceded as runners and get their electonics stolen just because it seems silly to keep £100 worth of electronics in a car that isn't using it. 

[Anthroxoid]

I dunno. Seven, I think. Maybe eight are prvrammmed but one or five haven’t been painted yet so maybe a lot more. I really love 4WD, 1/10th electric buggies though the crawler movement stirred something bad inside of me and thankfully there were barely any kits out there so I only bought one (no RTR policy here) and still haven’t finished it, then put my mental hand up and said to myself I shall not pass into this genre. The 4WD TCs are also interesting to me and I got about twenty TT-02s and gave lots to my family members in the hopes that they’d share in the pure joy of RC Building Breaking and Buying Disease and that we’d spread that contagion to some neighborhoods for good parking lot sessions. Never happened. Pop built two of them and loves looking at his model Jag but doesn’t drive it. It is one of those ‘prepped runners’ that won’t ever see use. I just “require a good 4WD buggy for bashing, a”” Truggy “”, and my single crawler. The touring cars I dunno, I liked the scale appeal and collecting the different offerings, and I love to build a top-of-the-line model from any manufacturer as long as it’s a 4WD buggy
 

Anyhow, to answer to the OP’s quandary, if you do not like building models and repairing them when you crash, learning a bit more of electromechanical wizardry (The Knack) as you go, then this is the wrong hobby, or you probably should get a super durable RTR with parts availability for bashing. This hobby is truly expansive annd costly, and cars are just a small part of it. You want pure loss? Scratch build a scale warplane over five or eight years and then literally cry after it crashes on first flight. Your club members will console you and you’ll build another. Maybe perform a better preflight next round. Helos—my god the wear of automotive parts combined with the dangers of erratic flight! Boats are like actually just putting your bills directly into the ocean and watching them dissolve. It’s so much fun. Man I love this stuff. 
 

—XOID

P.S. GAS (gear acquisition syndrome) is a real phenomenon that leads to financial stupidity and buyer’s remorse. It gets the best of us no matter the subject of obsession. If you’re genetically predisposed to hoarding then woe onto thee spousal unit and progeny, for they must deal with your cruft. 

[TurnipJF]

Hmm. All of my cars are theoretically runners, in that you could put a battery in any of them and take them for a drive, but some are run more than others, and this changes with the season.

My three main running venues are an indoor club about an hour away, the local park about 5 minutes away, and the tarmac area outside the garages next to our house. My club racers are the least seasonal, and usually take the form of a stock F103RS. I have more advanced F1s in my fleet, but there is something rather satisfying about being able to keep pace with modern hopped-up cars driving a stock model from several decades ago! Other club runners include my M-07, M-08, TB-03 and TT-02 Type S.

Park runners are the most seasonal as the terrain gets rather muddy in winter. Common winter park runners include the WR and WT trucks, and their GF and G6 cousins. However in summer the ground dries up, the lawns are typically well tended, and it is time for the DF and DT buggies to come out and play. 

The tarmac in front of the garages is where I set up my postal racing tracks, and the cars I use there are dependent on both the weather and how seriously I am taking things at the time. Most of my fleet have seen use in the postal races at some point, with the rally cars with their waterproof electronics and all-weather tyres performing well in the wet, and the TB, TT and M chassis being good for dry weather running. 

The new endurance postal races have seen my group C car stretching its legs, accompanied by my TT-02 Type S in GT3 guise, but they only really suit dry conditions so will either need to be run indoors or take a break from racing over winter. 

[Pylon80]

A slightly different but related question could be: "how many cars have you been running lately?" Or the poll version: "how many different cars did you drive in the last 30 days?"

I bet the answers would be a disproportionately small number compared to "how many runners do you have?".

In any case that's an astonishing fleet getting good use @TurnipJF!

This topic has stirred something inside for me. It annoys me that it seems impossible to reduce the "want" list to a number small enough to be able to put significant stick time on all of them. That would be perhaps 4 RC vehicles when the absolute minimum want & keep list would be around 12.

[TurnipJF]

17 hours ago, Pylon80 said:

In any case that's an astonishing fleet getting good use @TurnipJF!

I am very much fortunate in that I work a four on four off shift cycle, with four long work days followed by four days with which I can do what I like. Having zero offspring and a wife with her own hobbies that she enjoys while I do mine also helps a lot.

I imagine that if I worked a conventional nine to five job and had a demanding partner and/or kids, I would have far less time to play with toy cars! 😁

[skom25]

17 hours ago, Pylon80 said:

A slightly different but related question could be: "how many cars have you been running lately?" Or the poll version: "how many different cars did you drive in the last 30 days?"

I bet the answers would be a disproportionately small number compared to "how many runners do you have?".

In any case that's an astonishing fleet getting good use @TurnipJF!

This topic has stirred something inside for me. It annoys me that it seems impossible to reduce the "want" list to a number small enough to be able to put significant stick time on all of them. That would be perhaps 4 RC vehicles when the absolute minimum want & keep list would be around 12.

Good point!

I think it is main issue here. "I want" is much, much longer list than "I can run".

Example from yesterday:

It took me about 1.5 hour, to run car for 20 (!) minutes in total. Pack gear, go to the spot, route track, run, wait to cool down car, run, wait... pack gear, go to home.

 

[Andreas W]

3 minutes ago, skom25 said:

Good point!

I think it is main issue here. "I want" is much, much longer list than "I can run".

Example from yesterday:

It took me about 1.5 hour, to run car for 20 (!) minutes in total. Pack gear, go to the spot, route track, run, wait to cool down car, run, wait... pack gear, go to home.

 

In such a situation it's clear that you need to bring two cars. You run one, while the other cools down. Less waiting and more of what is fun, when you have taken the time and made the effort going somewhere to run.

 

Or do like me: Run RC on the way back from work and have the track marked up with sufficient paint. ATM I am a kind person and am using chalk paint, which can be washed off with water and a brush.

[skom25]

20 minutes ago, Andreas W said:

In such a situation it's clear that you need to bring two cars. You run one, while the other cools down. Less waiting and more of what is fun, when you have taken the time and made the effort going somewhere to run.

 

Or do like me: Run RC on the way back from work and have the track marked up with sufficient paint. ATM I am a kind person and am using chalk paint, which can be washed off with water and a brush.

This is exactly my plan to have two runners and run them together. That is why I am so angry, that I sold DT-03.

[Verskis]

I have 6 personal runners at he moment, while just finishing a build for seventh (M-05). Then I have a few cars just for the kids (who doesn't seem to enjoy RC cars as much as I do, so they are used very infrequently).

My own cars:

1. Tamiya XV-02, my main gravel rally car.
2. Tamiya XV-01 with Embieracing all-in-one-kit converted to RWD rally car, as a secondary rally car. This one has seen quite little use so far, sadly.
3. Carten T410R for indoor racing and some asphalt bashing.
4. Traxxas Slash 2wd, probably the car I've driven the most.  On a clay track meant for 1:8 buggies, on unofficial gravel tracks, on just a gravel parking lots or gravel sports fields with some cones marking a track, on an indoor carpet 1:10 buggy track. It is just a nice car to drive anywhere (well, on the carpet it is not nearly as nice as on the more loose surfaces).
5. Traxxas Slash 4wd. Not as fun to drive as the 2wd Slash, so has been mostly sitting in the shelf lately. I don't know what to do with this, as I and the kids sometimes drive it, but quite rarely. Might still regret selling it.
6. Element Enduro Trailwalker for crawling. At some point this was the one I drove the most, but I am slightly bored of the terrain I have nearby (even though there are quite nice places to crawl) so not been using it so much lately. 
7. Tamiya M-05. Wanted to get another one for racing indoors in the winter, and this seemed like a fun class to participate in. 

Cars for the kids:

1. Traxxas Slash 2wd. Slightly diffrent spec compared to my own 2wd Slash, for example this one has monster truck wheels, as it started out it's life as a Stampede. 
2. FTX Outback Fury. So that (one of) the kids can come crawling with me. 
3. Element Enduro24. Got this as a christmas present for my son, as I thought that it would be fun to crawl indoors, but it seems that crawling over the sofa and some pillows gets old very quickly. 

So there will be 10 runner cars on the house very soon, which is quite too much, as some of them are run very rarely. I really need to stop buying more cars at this point and just run what I have now.

[Pablo68]

I have a collection of nearly sixty RC's of various types. They can all be run at a moments notice.  Ok, let me qualify that, there are around ten-ish that need work done, completion or repair etc. When they are done they'll be ready to go too.
Because of the size of the collection they don't all get run that often.
I hope that clears it up. I slid on a glace cherry....

[SlideWRX]

I fell down the rc rabbit hole in 2021, and the years after that have been limited to two a year.  I am at seven, and four of those are 2wd buggies.  All but 1 have been driven this year and will get driven at least a couple more times.  A couple of them might end up more display than play.

DT-03, DT-02, TD2, GT-01 Lambo, MST CMX with Dakar Lorry body

NEXXT - under development

FF-02B - under development

If I come across a Futaba FX-10 for a price I am willing to pay, I will be its custodian for a while and just admire it. I wanted on as a kid, but it wasn't advanced enough beyond my Hornet, so I bought a Boomerang instead. Still want the Futaba though...

A Lunchbox or Midnight Pumpkin might be fun.

A Rising Fighter or similar to do something like an homage to my original Hornet, but it will be ever so slightly modified...

A G6-01 - a crazy chassis to do crazy things to.

I think that is it as far as rc cars go.  I can admire the efforts of others from afar for the rest. I think.  Maybe?   I think I might grab an RC plane, or two depending on how well I fly the first.  Not much interest in boats or drones currently.

[Sogogi]

On 5/13/2024 at 1:47 AM, skom25 said:

This is exactly my plan to have two runners and run them together. That is why I am so angry, that I sold DT-03.

I actually liked dt-03(sold it) too due to its stability (even with under steer) and simple design.

 

[skom25]

5 hours ago, Sogogi said:

I actually liked dt-03(sold it) too due to its stability (even with under steer) and simple design.

 

Unfortunately, I understood this after I sold it.

One day I will buy it again or DT-02 Sand Viper which in my opinion, is one of the best looking Tamiya buggies ( except of TRF).

[Pizza Frog]

I only have 5 cars currently and they are all runners or will be runners

Some of them have 2 bodies, one for the shelf and another for running.   

Lunchbox is probably my favorite runner, I love the amount of torque that the small brass pinion puts down through those soft tyres.   
Sand-hopper - Another of my favorites, the 380 motor is surprisingly fun on hard surfaces and the right speed for the scorcher body, any faster and i'd be grimacing.   

Frog - I haven't properly run this because I am still tinkering with it
Fire Dragon - even though this is my favorite Tamiya I haven't run it much yet due to not yet finding some road tyres for it, although I did often run a Saint Dragon 4WD  before it which is pretty much identical, I like the steering on this chassis.  ( I will probably just run the Dragon with Boomerang rims and tyres in the future)  

Boomerang - this is still getting built and will get run in spring when the weather warms up.    

[Kowalski86]

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[TurnipJF]

On 5/16/2024 at 12:15 AM, SlideWRX said:

FF-02B - under development

Do tell us more?

I was working on a FF-02B myself a while ago, until I came across this rendering:

Which led to my FF-02B plans turning into this: