If I didn't spend money on R/C...

[K.O.M.]

Just this year alone, if I didn't spend as much money on R/C, I could have bought this:





Or this:

[K.O.M.]

Alright guys/girls, time to be honest about your spending and tally it up and let's see what other toys you could have bought with the same amount you have spend on R/C.

[johnnyh66]

This

and this

[fr8cture]

^LOL!!!

I could have probably bought a new ATV....

[Johnnysplits]

Originally Posted by johnnyh66

This

and this

I just had to like this twice!! But I'll tell ya, I'm on the fence about selling off all my r/c stuff and get into playing electric guitar...heavy metal shit. It's a hell of a lot cheaper hobby.

[ghtpdm5]

more guns. mainly like plinking, so probably give one of these a try



if not that, some sort of ar build. been hearing good things about rock river's guns, start there and see what all i'd like on it. last up would be a pump shotgun. the mossberg 500 tactical with full magpul furniture and full length shell tube is really the only one on the list. i have an over-under for trap and such, so having a fixed choke with the tactical version doesn't bother me. that and its a mossberg 500. things are tanks.

a couple of others in the maybe pile would be a century arms pw87, remake of the 1887 and 1901 lever action shotguns. then maybe a mosin nagant project rifle. more of a modernization than restoration.

[RiceBurner]

I did give up RC and sold most my stuff. Now I mountain bike every weekend. I would highly recommend it. But I had loads of fun for years with RC.

[jetboat]

I stopped buying rc stuff and my Jeep is taller with a v8 and Im pretty far on building a '27 track car with c4 suspension. ..

[badhoopty]

i kept my reciepts for awhile once. once...

[badhoopty]

i think could have bought a nicely modded 1:1 tj for what ive spent over the past few years... definitely a really geeked out zuk or sas tracker.

[Meatwad]

I don't like to think of what is spent on any hobby.

[neillarson]

Originally Posted by Johnnysplits

I just had to like this twice!! But I'll tell ya, I'm on the fence about selling off all my r/c stuff and get into playing electric guitar...heavy metal shit. It's a hell of a lot cheaper hobby.

Gotta tell you from experience, guitars and amps can rapidly become MUCH more expensive than R/C other than the repairs. A cheap Peavy electric guitar and amp my sound perfect to start, but soon you are looking at Taylor's, Fender and Gibson Custom Shop, Mesa Boogie and pedals. OMG at the pedals.

I went from a Taylor GS Mini to a Taylor Build to Order, a Taylor custom Solid Body, a Fender American Delux Strat and a Gibson Signature Les Paul with a Mesa Boogie Cab and Head unit, a Fender Hot Rod Junior Tweed and about a dozen pedals and a large multi function pedal and other miscellaneous guitars and stands and junk. That doesn't incude my wife's guitars and amps. Oh yeah, forgot the couple vintage Fenders.

Maybe not as bad as guns, but stupid expensive especially if you don't play professionally.

[gearhead79]

One of these



With one of these bad boys

[WHITE-TRASH]

I don't think I've spent $200 on r/c stuff this year. I've traded some toyota parts for a nice bunch of r/c stuff though. All my spare cash has been spent on my auto x truck. I love playing with toy trucks and all that but running a boring looking pickup that holds it's own in auto x is simply the most fun I've ever had with my clothes on.

[DBoger82]

I traded off a bunch of plastic model kits for a parts rig and a trail ready rig, so spending this year was next to none......

[Fictivision]

Well before i got into the RC hobby i had airgun rifle,that i sold and used money to buy me Tamiya CR01.Budget got exceeded ofcourse by at least 300$ cause of buying loads of hop-up parts,and as it seems the spending wont stop in near future because im already looking after a more scale platform beside the CR01.

But as I see it money has to go on something,i dont drink and smoke,dont have kids either.My wife doesnt approve my new hobby therfore i dont tell her what i paid for all the parts,tools and the rig.

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[rm25x]

I could have bought an ATV I am sure, like I have wanted to do for a while. Now that I got out of r/c racing, I am saving a ton of money. I just have some fun vehicles I like to run with my buddies that do not cost much to maintain. So 2015 is the year I finally buy that ATV I have been wanting for the last few years.

[Johnnysplits]

Originally Posted by neillarson

Gotta tell you from experience, guitars and amps can rapidly become MUCH more expensive than R/C other than the repairs. A cheap Peavy electric guitar and amp my sound perfect to start, but soon you are looking at Taylor's, Fender and Gibson Custom Shop, Mesa Boogie and pedals. OMG at the pedals.

I went from a Taylor GS Mini to a Taylor Build to Order, a Taylor custom Solid Body, a Fender American Delux Strat and a Gibson Signature Les Paul with a Mesa Boogie Cab and Head unit, a Fender Hot Rod Junior Tweed and about a dozen pedals and a large multi function pedal and other miscellaneous guitars and stands and junk. That doesn't incude my wife's guitars and amps. Oh yeah, forgot the couple vintage Fenders.

Maybe not as bad as guns, but stupid expensive especially if you don't play professionally.

I could see buying a higher end axe after years of playing a decent one just because you'll be playing at a much higher level. However, I'm certainly not going to quit my job and join a band (I'm 47) so that's why I see a limited amount of money spent. I've found a kick ass amp for $300 that I probably wouldn't outgrow...a Line 6 spider IV 75w. Looking to start with a Kramer striker 211 custom. Maybe upgrade the pickups and try different strings, but that's about it I think.

[Johnnysplits]

Originally Posted by badhoopty

i kept my reciepts for awhile once. once...

Don't EVER do that!!

[djjiz]

Got out of rc because I could drive a 1:1 off road for the same money.
A roll cage turned into a 9k rebuild and it still needed another 3k to finish.

I came running back to rc's.