Scale comps?

[Skittlebrau]

Hey guys,

I have been poking around for a few weeks now, and am looking forward to stopping by at the next comp to meet a few of you, and watch and learn! Do you guys do much scale comp at all? From plugging around here I see you guys do some trailing and stuff. And I saw a post elsewhere about the 2012 scale comp rules, and it intrigued me!

I have an XR-10 kit on order to build up for crawling, but I was thinking of snagging a scale truck as well for my kids to mess around with, and was thinking about other uses for it...(yeah...I will end up using it more them....but if I am lucky enough, they will get the bug like I did, and then we will have an excuse to get more!)

[TrailDawg362]

We've had scale comps before as part of our regular program, but because of space and time limitations on the indoor course it's tough to squeeze them in. Personally I think it's just as much fun to have scale fun runs outdoors where you can challenge your buddy to "make it up/over this!". No points, no penalties, no time limits, just bragging rights and fun.

[Skittlebrau]

That does sound like fun, and probably 95% of what I will be doing with a Scaler anyway.

I was just double checking the "local field" before I made a kit purchase. If you guys in the area did a lot of Class 2 Scale comps, for example, it would be smart of me to build something in that class to take advantage of that fact!

Wish I had managed to hang on to my Tamiya Pajero from 15 years ago or so... I'd already be all set to hit the trails!

[TrailDawg362]

The PJ is a nice little rig, but the newer scale trucks will walk all over it as far as handling and offroad abilities. I'm still impressed with what a well set-up trail rig can do. Super and I regularly push ours to the limit during summer fun runs .

[Super]

I love that last pic.

This is what I am working on for this summer.


You best get to cracking on yours T-Dawg

[MrNate]

The fun run is what I loved using the scale truck for, as well. I'm kind of an idiot with the controls anyway, so taking the competition aspect out of it made it work for me!

[TrailDawg362]

Originally Posted by MrNate

The fun run is what I loved using the scale truck for, as well. I'm kind of an idiot with the controls anyway, so taking the competition aspect out of it made it work for me!

X2 that for me, Mr. Nate . Maybe I'll just buy the Trailfinder II, then I'll have a hard body scaler too!