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View Poll Results: Can you tell us how did you find your way to RCT&C
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Old 02-02-2014, 09:06 AM
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I went to the Indy show last August, looking for Tonka parts. I showed up early and the only room I could get into was the one set up so owners could drive their trucks, and operate their construction equipment.

I'm not quite sure when the bug bit me that day, but I couldn't shake the desire to have one of those trucks.

It turned out there was only one couple there that day selling Tonka parts, and they made the trip worthwhile.
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Old 02-22-2014, 11:41 PM
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Actually, I'm currently in Delaware finishing up Locomotive Engineer class and my instructor is heavy into RC planes and so I started searching for info and BAM! Here I am. It's amazing how much info and how helpful everyone is here!!! I'm definitely gona pay a visit to my local hobby shops when I get back to Portland, Or. I LOVE the construction vehicles, but I think I'll start with a Unimog or LandCruiser for first project. Thanks again!
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Old 03-20-2014, 11:07 PM
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word of mouth from a chap I met through a UK forum
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Old 03-21-2014, 01:29 PM
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A link in someone's signature from another forum, wish I could remember who.
Anyhow thank you to that mystery person for getting me here.
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Old 03-27-2014, 09:03 AM
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Found my way through Instagram and seeing all the awesome builds!
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Old 03-27-2014, 10:11 AM
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followed the rest of the elders when the garden got removed
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Old 10-08-2014, 08:35 AM
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I was looking for semis and lowboys for sons ( my old) 1/16 Ertl and found the forum. I don't know anything about rc but glad to find all the info an builds. My first king hauler is in the garage, now to go broke.
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Old 10-08-2014, 12:22 PM
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YouTube link, was looking at r/c excavator about tot build my second, when founf the build on this site and was like wow!! i got to step my game......a lot !!!
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Old 12-16-2014, 07:54 PM
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I found it via Lil Giants Construction youtube posting .

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yep i had been following his channel on youtube for a couple years and when he mentioned the forum... here i am
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Old 04-04-2015, 05:10 PM
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Internet search for "How to build 1/14 scale semi trailer"...
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Old 04-28-2015, 07:58 PM
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Referred from rc group at York pa fairgrounds steam show
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Old 01-26-2018, 08:20 AM
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By researching every aspect of a build lol. this site kept popping up amongst my random google searches. I got tired of google not being able to answer my questions about the hobby. So i decided I would give this a try. and my wife and kids don't speak RC fluently 😀😀
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Old 01-26-2018, 07:41 PM
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Started with toy junk, got out around late elementry school.
Saw an ad about 1/64 rc, got into tiny stuff Zipzaps, bit char-g, ...
In A&P school a guy was big into nitro traxxas stuff, sold me an already old then msc Rustler.
Few years later hanging out on rccrawler.com looking at Wheelieking conversions, everyone said wait a couple months, picked up the first release of Axial AX-10 kit. Comp crawled for a while.
Kept seeing cool scale trucks, went to scale4x4rc.com kept seeing all kinds of other cool stuff in big rig, agricultural, industrial sections. Heard after action reports about the 'Indy Show', and it was at a hotel near work. That's awesome, maybe next year. Same thing, you missed a great show.
Fgd launched this board, i checked it out in it's first couple months. That looks so cool, i hope it takes off.
Got mostly out while too busy working on the house.
Proline launched an early Jeep XJ, i needed a mini-me for my late XJ. An axial scx-10 joined me.
I kept going back to the excavators and dumptrucks posted on scale. I didn't plan to go all LilGiants style, but it looked fun. Smallhaul and Stuff made Unit Cranes into draglines, a way to dig dirt for well under the Hydro machines price.
I found a rough nylint Michigan T-24 Crane and a structo Dumptruck in antique shop. Rvjimd had a build thread on his crane here, maybe he'll share tips...

Now i think you'll have a hard time getting rid of me.
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Old 01-26-2018, 09:59 PM
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I got my first RC as a child, it was the Radio shack yellow monster truck. next was an airboat. They truck broe when it hit a small puddle. After that, I took a break from Rc stuff for a few years, then at 23, my uncle had a nitro TRaxxas. It looked & sounded cool. My brother got one, then talked me into getting one. Had it for a couple years before I took another break from RC things. I always wanted to get back into them, but they were costly. At 33 I found a guy on Craigslist that had several nitro & NiMH Rc cars/trucks fir sale at a great price. I bough the lot of them, ALL 12. Traxxas, Team Associated, Axial, & a couple of off brand stuff was in this lot. I started to R&R the junky stuff in that lot.

One day at the LHS trying to buy a nitro motor for the Tmaxx, a feller was there & saw me buying it. He asked if I wanted some more nitro motors. I inquired how much. He said FREE! I followed him home an hour away. There he showed me his nitro to brushless Tmaxx conversion he made. I picked his brain & learned a LOT of tips & tricks. I took the remaining lot of nitro stuff & got the misc broken parts/pieces repaired to sell them. after selling them, I bought an Emaxx.

Jump ahead a couple more years, & I had stumbled upon some rc semi trucks on the interwebs. I wanted them & started researching them. They at that time were out of reach financial wise. I kept adding other misc LiPo powered stuff to my collection that was acquired for great deals on Craigslist &/or Evilbay. I FINALLY found a great deal on a used Kinghauler & got it. Shortly after getting it, & wondering what others has transformed theirs into, I stumbled upon this place while searching the interwebs.

That's my long story of how I found this AWESOME place. I've been involved with other groups/clubs.forums for Rc stuff. I didn't stay there long. Folks there were NOT too keen on sharing the tips/tricks they had learned & used to build their things. Here folks show great pics & descriptions of what they have done to build the things that they created. I believe that I've learned more from this forum than I have from anywhere else! A great big THANK-YOU to all who've offered advise/tips when I have encountered whilst building my contraptions.
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Old 01-27-2018, 12:48 PM
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Kept seeing cool scale trucks, went to scale4x4rc.com
That would be www.scale4x4rc.org ...good forum with lots of info & good ppl too.
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Old 02-04-2018, 11:56 AM
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I've met a few members through Amazing Rc in Mississauga Ontario
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Old 09-06-2019, 01:17 AM
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I found my way here after looking up youtube video and some of them pointing me in this direction!
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Old 03-08-2020, 10:14 PM
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Simply in conversation on the Facebook. Finding of something special can be pretty easy or can be not. It's about chances and numerology predictions, and if you know about number 444 meaning and how it can affect on your life - you will definitely make some corrections to rule your life in different situations, talking to specific people in different manners.

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Old 03-12-2020, 01:01 PM
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I just may have been the one that led ya here. I LOVE this forum! BEFORE all the various Facebook groups were created, this was the ONLY place to find information pertaining to the scale truck & equipment side of the RC hobby. I frequently post about this forum on various Facebook pages.
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