Why Do You Rc?

[blakeatron]

Just being nosey really - why are you in this hobby?

I am into Rc as a stress reliever, all i used to do at home was stress about work and even in bed i use to lie there thinking about work! Well when i was tidying the loft i found my old ta02 which was broken, so searched the web for a spare part and found you lot - and the rest is history!

So building Tamiya takes my mind of work - now i just lie in bed thinking about colour schemes or my next purchase

[Butler]

Used to have a Falcon and a TA01 cossie when a kid.

My anniversary present was due in september, and I wanted something I could tinker with on my lap while watching tele, so asked the missus to buy me another car...

Thats was 4 months ago and still loving it, even just using it in the street.

[madaz75]

For me this hobby is about getting in touch with your lost childhood,

Playing with my 'Toy Cars' reminds me of a time when life was a lot less complicated.

It's about capturing lost childhood innocence,

remembering times when you used to race your mates with their RC's

About saving all your pocket money for months to buy more batteries, a faster motor, or even spare parts to fix yours after you broke it.

Am I still a Kid at Heart?

I certainly hope so..

[Tamiya1/10]

Not necessary in the order as indicated.

1) For making up the lack of toys in my childhood, so is not reliving my childhoold.

2) Can play or display it

3) Can affort to own many vs the 1:1 scale and is much cheaper to upgrade and repair

4) A combination of engineering and work of art

5) what else am i going to do in my spare time, paint, learn a new language, get another degree

[Z]

I can't afford to work on real sand rails and rock crawlers !

[ryanbored]

For me this hobby is about getting in touch with your lost childhood,

Playing with my 'Toy Cars' reminds me of a time when life was a lot less complicated.

It's about capturing lost childhood innocence,

remembering times when you used to race your mates with their RC's

About saving all your pocket money for months to buy more batteries, a faster motor, or even spare parts to fix yours after you broke it.

Am I still a Kid at Heart?

I certainly hope so..

Nail on the head- Plus i love tinkering with stuff. I also like to make a day of it, for example taking the boats out, with a bbq and some beers! (not this weather though!)

[WillyChang]

its cheaper, safer & more convenient than racing 1:1s... touring cars, drift cars, sports exotics, F1s

plus you can trashtalk your fellow racers whilst on the stand, can't do that if in cabin wearing helmet/kevlar

and on the offroaders you can go squishysquishy on their suspension everytime you please when you walk past

[Z]

and on the offroaders you can go squishysquishy on their suspension everytime you please when you walk past

He he he !

[Mad Ax]

and on the offroaders you can go squishysquishy on their suspension everytime you please when you walk past

it's not just me, then?

I got back into RC mid-2006. I had some spare money and wanted to take my mind off things. I'm a full-time software developer, and also spend a lot of time writing fiction and music, so I spend most of my waking ours in front of a screen. I wanted something that would involve my hands and take me away from the screen for a bit.

I bought a Dark Impact thinking it would keep me occupied for a few days, and then I'd probably sell it on ebay a week later once I'd got the RC urge out of my system. But after taking it for its first run in a quiet car-park (very self-conscious and nervous, as a 26-year-old male playing with a toy on a summer's evening!) I was hooked.

And then I found you lot! Now RC occupies much of my waking thoughts. It's a welcome distraction from the near-constant cries in my head of my fictitious characters who are desperate for me to finish their stories or write sequels for them. It was fun building stock runners and playing with them alone, then it was fun designing custom projects, then it was fun meeting other TCers and bashing together; now it's fun buying re-res to build as shelf queens. It's all good fun, and it keeps me occupied.

I don't play with my RCs nearly as much as I should but I look at them every day on my shelf, I race my touring car weekly, I visit TamiyaClub several times a day and I drool over the cheap goodies on Stellamodels and dream of having enough spare cash to put one on order... mmmmmm...

[markbt73]

It's like a kinetic sculpture that you can go play with.

[Butler]

I wanted something that would involve my hands and take me away from the screen for a bit.

I bought a Dark Impact thinking it would keep me occupied for a few days, and then I'd probably sell it on ebay a week later once I'd got the RC urge out of my system. But after taking it for its first run in a quiet car-park (very self-conscious and nervous, as a 26-year-old male playing with a toy on a summer's evening!) I was hooked.

And then I found you lot! Now RC occupies much of my waking thoughts.

Wow, so close to me, especially stepping out in my street at 29, with a toy car. lol. I too expected to get bored.

[Shodog]

My aspirations to make it as an exotic male dancer were tragically cut short due to my inability to dance to a beat so I decided take up R/C car collecting instead.

[blakeatron]

My aspirations to make it as an exotic male dancer were tragically cut short due to my inability to dance to a beat so I decided take up R/C car collecting instead.

dont care about your moves - i would love to see a picture of your dance outfit

[Tamiya1/10]

My aspirations to make it as an exotic male dancer were tragically cut short due to my inability to dance to a beat so I decided take up R/C car collecting instead.

Still want to learn how to dance? Just attach high torque servos to all your joints and you'll be doing the robo dance in no time. I see Chip&Dale

[Saito]

I literally through my life away on full size cars. I never had less the 6 at any given moment. I restored high dollar muscle cars and Corvettes at a shop for a living. I ate, breathed, and slept cars. Everything suffered as a result. I stopped drawing, playing guitar...everything not related to cars. Here in the states, we are having a great surge in interest in old cars so the prices have gone through the roof, effectively pricing me out of the things I loved. I watched part manufacturing go overseas to the cheapest bidder. I watched the part prices go up (even though its now cheaper for the manufacturer as its overseas) and the quaility go in the toilet. Finally I lost it. I got fed up with seeking out over priced pieces of rusty junk and building them up with over priced poor quality parts.

Then I remembered my first passion...Tamiyas. Low and behold, the quality is still there. Things fit right. The prices are cheaper nowadays if anything. Tamiya filled a big void in my life left by my awful obsession with full size autos. Sure they take me back to a nicer time, but they satisfy my curiosity for wheeled vehicles as well.

[ryanbored]

It's like a kinetic sculpture that you can go play with.

Think I'm gonna get that in a brass plaque mounted above my toy-room door!

[adam1973]

I remember wanting either a Sand Scorcher or a Holiday Buggy, in fact I bugged the badword out of parents for 3 years til I got................................. a Nikko Porsche 93 something for Xmas. I think that it might still be in the loft of my dads house, with original box!!

Now I earn my own money, and after paying all my bills, the wife etc... I have a little bit left to endulge my hobby.

[minijosh]

Just playing with toys and hanging out with friends. Good enough for me.

[adam1973]

Plus what he ^ said.