ScalerFab Team Driver Steve Mccolly's Project "Problem Child"Project "Problem Child" Well this is "Problem Child" my old SCX10 from many years ago.it's still running and still gives me fits all the time but I can't bring myself to retire the old girl..lolThis truck has seen many faces in its day but this Toyota Hardbody is really starting to grow on me. This truck started life out as a g6 scx10 but now there's not too much left of that old stock truck.I have replaced just about everything except for frame rails which I can i...
ScalerFab Team Driver Oliver Barber recounts his experience at Berkeley Scale Adventures.Oliver Barber's Event Recap: Berkeley Scale Adventures May 27, 2017 South Ontario Canada. This was my third time returning to this event location; it’s a super awesome place with a ton of terrain, and the people running it are great (it’s run by Dana Lloyd and his family/friends on his family’s land). Unlike last year, it wasn’t freezing cold and raining, so that was super nice. There was nice sunny weather for the whole day, and even in the swampy bits of the trail, the mosqu...
The year may have started rough but that didn't keep ScalerFab Team Driver Mike Rowe down!Never give up! Never get down! ScalerFab Team Driver Mike Rowe hits the trails at Beat the Creek! This year has started off a bit slow for myself compared to last year. I've missed five comps do to flu, family losses and work, but Beat the Creek in Kentucky this past weekend helped the mood and rejuvenated my soul. The Hauke family and friends once again did a heck of a job for this event. It started with high percentage of rain in the forecast, but Saturday morning I awoke to a 10% ...
The wind wasn't the only thing blowing the competition away at this 801rcc comp!Team ScalerFab Driver Brenda Sumner helps the wind blow the competition away with her 3rd straight win! SRS Grand Prix 801rcc comp at The San Rafael Swell 5/13/17 Amazing country in southern Utah and breathing scenery. Several people made the trip down to The San Rafael Swell for the 801rcc comp. The day started out great but towards the end of the comp it became quite windy with gusts up to 40mph. It was challenging in many areas with a few rigs being blown off ledges. We braved the ...
The amazing R/C community and the Lifestyle that comes with it.ScalerFab Team Driver Kerry Adams tells us about a few weekend's out with his son at local events, including the eyewitness account of great people in this R/C Community and lifestyle. A few weeks ago, my son and I went to a crawl event outside of Denver, CO. We were there to watch some fun scale rigs and enjoy time with friends. Being that both of our rigs were still being put together we wanted to just watch and help where we could. The next weekend we went to another event nearby, put...
ScalerFab Team Driver Josh Krupenny hits the MN/WI comp in full force.Fun at the 1st MN/WI Comp with 1.9, 2.2, Sportsman, and Pro M.O.A. The first Minnesota/Wisconsin comp was pretty awesome. In the 1.9 comp it wasn't my best showing, I had some poor choices in lines and took 8th place. In the 2.2 comp I had to use my bomber due to my new 2.2 truck wasn't done yet and my bomber isn't really a comp truck due to no ground clearance. It wasn't too bad though, I got 7th. In sportsman class I did good and got 5th and then in Pro M.O.A. class I got ...
Team Driver Cristian Fischer shows off his rigs in Texas.Big is always better in Texas, Cristian Fischer shows us that with his 6x6. North Texas Scale Crawler OTC #3. We went out with the whole family and had a good time. ScalerFab was one of the key sponsors for this event. I brought out my 6x6 to show off the bumper clearance and show how all ScalerFab products are designed for maximum performance. We set up our shade tent and table and participated in the show and shine event with our Kyosho blizzards before the run. Both are custom built vint...
Steve McColly tells us what the Pacific Northwest has to offer.Fun timed crawling in the Pacific Northwest There hasn't been a lot going on here in the Pacific Northwest lately besides either rain or extreme heat LOL. But that still doesn't stop us from getting out and doing some teeny trucking. As often as we can we get out and hit the trail to get some quality Trail time in, and then just enjoy the Pacific Northwest scenery. With all the different terrain that we have around heren, it also gives me an opportunity to get testing and tuning in to...
Team Driver Chris Leal went crawling with his local friends and tells us about the fun.Durability, team work, and careful planning made this adventure even more fun. This month we stuck close to home and had some fun on our local trails with Plumas County Scalers. We drove our normal Stover Mountain Trail and had some fun finding a few new lines. My ScalerFab Wraith Armor Skid Plates definitely shined in a few spots, taking a hard drop and doing what they do, "skidding" over some other terrain. On our way up, a driver up front tipped over trying to climb a rock that w...
ScalerFab Team Driver Josh Krupenny had a heck of a Journey at the Lewis and Clark R/C Adventure 2017A very incredible adventure to the Lewis and Clark R/C Adventure 2017 The Lewis and Clark R/C adventure 2017 in Clarksville Indiana was a heck of a journey!! All started Thursday I had to work a 16 hour day at my job and the rush home to get loaded up. Then head over to fellow ScalerFab team driver Adam Nerby's house. Adam and 2 other guys got their stuff loaded up and we were loaded to the gills with my long box ford superduty with a tonneau cover with Rc stuff and ez ups it was like...
ScalerFab Team Drivers Randy & Tristen Williams in the riddle of how to avoid going from "Brake" to "Broke"How to avoid the sequence of going from Brake to Break, to Broke. All explained using just 1 feature! Trying to decide what to write about had me thinking back to last year at the start of the comp season here in Arkansas. Still chilly out, and we were hours from home. During the competition it occurred to me that there was something wrong with the drag break on one of my rigs. I had made adjustments a few weeks prior to the event and had not changed them back. Which was making it difficult t...
Survival of the Fittest- ScalerFab Trail Armor Look-BackScalerFab Team Driver Dave Hall looks back on his 14 months of use on the ScalerFab K5 Trail Armor! What a hectic month April had been! With thousands of hot cross buns to be made at work and a extremely busy period at Sydney Fox Rescue it hasn't left me much time for tiny truckin sadly.So i thought I'd take a look back at how my ScalerFab Trail Armour has survived the last 14 months. With my trucks I like to keep them looking as realistic as possible so when I first got picked for ...
Oliver Barber shares a Tech Tip: Super Simple WindshieldsScalerFab Team Driver Oliver Barber's Tech Tip: Super Simple Windshields! This inexpensive and easy to do custom modification is a great trick to learn! If you're piecing a hardbody together part by part, the windscreen can be overly expensive for what it is, and depending on the body, it may be way too tinted for use with a scale interior. When working with a custom/3d printed body, there may just not be anything available at all. Luckily, there is an inexpensive, simple solution, i...
Trail Armor Paint Touch Up the Vegas way with ScalerFab Team Driver Matt WolfeIf you were curious what to do when it comes to touching up the paint on your ScalerFab Trail Armor than look no further! Matt Wolfe here in sunny and warm Las Vegas. We just finished up our local scale points series and a busy winter season, now it is time to freshen up the rig and protect my ScalerFab Trail Armor. So I hit up my local hardware store and picked up some Valspar Textured Stone Effect Sand Stone Spray. For me black is the way to go but they have other colors as well. This lin...
ScalerFab Team Driver Adam Nerby brings home a few wins!ScalerFab Team Driver Adam Nerby was able to secure a few new wins this past weekend! Well this past weekend I attended the Louis and Clark R/C Adventure in Clarksville, IN. The weather Friday we had spotty showers for practice and Saturday comp day was calling for rain all day so the event got pushed back a couple hours in hopes of some let up. We started at 10 a.m. and had light rain for the first 3 hours, then rain stopped about 1 p.m. or so. The courses were all really wet and made ge...
ScalerFab Team Driver Eric Jaquay shares a Life Hack with us.How to fix a stripped out hex screw Life Hack by ScalerFab Team Driver Eric Jaquay Hello tiny truck world. eric.the.mechanic here to bring you a simple "how to" trick. We all have had one of those pesky stripped hex screws. If you haven't, just wait it'll happen. My favorite way to fix this is to take my dremel with a small cutoff wheel and cut a × into it deep enough for a Phillips head screw driver. Problem solved!
2017 Comp Season is in Full Swing, ScalerFab Team Driver Matt Brauer shares how his year began.For the love of all things scale, travel up and down the East Coast with Team ScalerFab Driver, Matt Brauer, and family! Well the Comp season is upon us and the NWI TTC and Brauer Family started it off with a bang!! Back on Feb 12th the NWI TTC Event season started with the ScalerFab Presents the Axial NWI TTC Points Series Season Opener at RC Fun Park in Granger Indiana. This was a great event where everyone had a blast, by everyone I mean the 60 people, 80 trucks, and countless spectator...
Ultimate Scale Truck Expo Is In The Books!If you missed out on all of the action at the inaugural Ultimate Scale Truck Expo in Williston, FL then BOY DID YOU MISS OUT!! Here's ScalerFab Team Driver, Ant Petrone, with the highlights. So the first ever Ultimate Scale Truck Expo is in the bag, featuring an amazing 9 courses, a hill climb, a basher park, scale rally course, and even a course just for micro crawlers I can easily say this was the event to be at if you are into scale tiny trucks! That’s not even taking into account the...
ScalerFab Team Driver Matt Brauer talks about the Lifestyle we are all apart of along with a recap of his April!It's a lifestyle and that means it's a Family Hobby! Team Driver Matt Brauer challenges everyone to grow their r/c families! The R/C Hobby has been more recently referred to as a lifestyle, I believe that to be absolutely true! A hobby is something you try and do in free/spare time to help pass the time. A lifestyle is something that you make the time to do, that you obsess over, dream about, drag family and friends into, and try to do 24/7. That is why 1/10 scale remote control ...
The 2017 RC4WD Scale Trail Championship in Hungary by Team Driver Zoltan CsikThe 2017 RC4WD Scale Trial Championship season opening was at Lipi-Ring in Tököl, Hungary and ScalerFab Team Driver Zoltan Csik was in attendance! It was the same place as our last season finale. There were many new and returning competitors. We all have been waiting for the first race after a very long winter season. Fortunately there was great sunny weather, after a week of raining.There were more than 30 competitors in three categories. The race was divided into three stages, so everyone...
