Well, no progress on the models... Sorry... I did however go UP in hobby-grade R/C by going nitro! W00t! Specifically, Team Associated's RC10GT2 RTR. I would've chosen the kit but I didn't have enough cash to purchase engine, fuel, etc. I'm also proud to run Tornado fuel! Tornado fuel is a European brand of nitro R/C fuel. I believe its the only non-American R/C fuel out there.
A cool thing is that school's over, and I've successfully passed summer school! (applause)
Finally, I'm done co-op. The problem now is getting a job... I've applied at 3 different places already, yet I'm still getting no answer... How is it that my schoolmate, some new import kid who just immigrated here already got a job so quickly? What's with this place? He's rude, a liar, a thief... How does he get into a company with no previous experiences whatsoever?
In my honest opinion, its bullshit.
Anyway, I've got a little rant I'd like to put up about HPI Racing. In no way is this supposed to deter anyone from buying HPI products, because they DO make a decent product (though I'd buy Traxxas before I'd even step into HPI territorry).
This is just a copypasta and small script-edit of my post from a forum that I frequent and moderate:
Q: What makes you not like HPI?
A: "HPI makes these big thundering big block trucks and make the parts out of cheesey nylon... (line taken from a member of RCU)
HPI has made a favorable truck, the Savage, which is great for bashing and all that... But most Savage owners (in my area) think they're better than everyone else JUST because they can stick a bigger engine in their truck and survive bigger impacts... When they see another company's car broken, they say "if it was an HPI, it wouldn't have broke". In my opinion, HPI will be nothing more than a company know for the Savage.
Believe me, HPI does make some great R/C cars, but the pact that owners go with, they close themselves from the rest of the world. They go on saying how HPI's R/C vehicles are durable, high-performance, blah, blah, blah...
My old boss from the computer repair shop I used to work at. I'll use him as an example.
I was driving my GT2 (Team Associated) nitro stadium truck in the back lot behind the shop when I caught interference and went WOT right into a cement wall, snapping the front sub-chassis and top-plate on my ST.
He starts saying "my touring car could've survived that. Any company's R/C car could've survived that". Touring car and ST? You're comparing open-wheel (like F1 cars) versus closed-wheel cars (GT cars with their wheels protected by the car's body).
[The company has absolutely NO racing heritage and history, whatsoever! My GT2 is a racing machine, not a bashing toy! The GT2 ALSO lives up to the RC10GT's legendary racing history! Jared Tebo fulfilled it in 2006 by winning the ROAR Gas Truck Nationals! The previous Nationals was won by Tebo himself, but with the GT2's predecessor, the GT! Look at this, predecessor and successor! One after the other! One should know that the original GT was released in 1993 and after the Gas Truck class was created in 1995, it won the first year the class was designed, and every Gas Truck National after that!]
Continuing on, he goes on saying that we should race and how he'd beat me with his powerful 4.6 Savage engine and his 'world-class' driving skill.
First off, he didn't even break in the engine properly. He goes WOT and drives it like a scolded dog the first time he started it. He can't tune, and can't turn over his engine consistently.
Then his "world-class" driving. Driving WOT, hitting the brakes, u-turn, and just as the the inside tires lift, he countersteers and brings the tires back and says "see, now that's driving"...
He goes on saying that he could even beat me on a purpose-built off-road track. Not a chance, dips#it can't even land his truck on its wheels...
Then he brings up his "impressive" painting skills. The ability to paint a 1:10 touring car body of HPI's Impreza (like the XMOD). He paints it ALL BLACK... Not even the right color, then takes the decals, sticks 'em on. Doesn't like it, peels it off and tries to stick it back on...
Then, for those who're more experienced with nitro R/C and cut holes in their windows... He sets up his race body by cutting the WHOLE windshield out and then sticking LEDs to his body...
ROAR/IFMAR regulation states that you can only have a windshield hole only as big as less than HALF of the size of the windshield...
Another thing, 9/10 HPI guys I know locally DON'T even perform regular maintenance on their car, NOR do they even install/replace their own parts.
In my boss's case, he spends $500 on the RTR, then $200 for the LHS to install parts (this case, HPI's 3-speed for the Savage), and tune the engine...
The $200 does NOT include the cost of parts... My boss went on about his stock engine not running properly (wasn't even broken-in properly in the first place) and spends $230 on an Axial .32 engine which he has the LHS break-in and tune for him...
Now, I'm NOT saying that ALL HPI guys are like this. But like I said above, 9/10 HPI guys in my area are like this."
Anyway, that's really all I can think of... I did however get back into Pixel art. I tried it at one point by making a pixel car replica of my Kenstyle G35 XMODS body, but I never really finished it... I went back a few weeks ago, this time, with an S14a Silvia that started out as a red bone-stock base. I re-painted it black, stuck on a Vertex Ridge rear bumper, intercooler, wheels, etc. I even put two pixel girls around the car resembling my girlfriend and her sister. I did do an edit with a third girl lying beside the car just to resemble my girlfriend's older sister; 'skanky whore', as my girlfriend calls her.
I won't be posting any pics through blogger lately, as I'm pretty fed up with the image posting properties that it has... It keeps changing the text I type beside the images into hyperlinks... Its annoying and its been like that since I first started blogger...
Well, at least its much cleaner and more professional looking than ModBlog.
Anyway, thanks for reading.
Until next time, chill-out and relax.
A cool thing is that school's over, and I've successfully passed summer school! (applause)
Finally, I'm done co-op. The problem now is getting a job... I've applied at 3 different places already, yet I'm still getting no answer... How is it that my schoolmate, some new import kid who just immigrated here already got a job so quickly? What's with this place? He's rude, a liar, a thief... How does he get into a company with no previous experiences whatsoever?
In my honest opinion, its bullshit.
Anyway, I've got a little rant I'd like to put up about HPI Racing. In no way is this supposed to deter anyone from buying HPI products, because they DO make a decent product (though I'd buy Traxxas before I'd even step into HPI territorry).
This is just a copypasta and small script-edit of my post from a forum that I frequent and moderate:
Q: What makes you not like HPI?
A: "HPI makes these big thundering big block trucks and make the parts out of cheesey nylon... (line taken from a member of RCU)
HPI has made a favorable truck, the Savage, which is great for bashing and all that... But most Savage owners (in my area) think they're better than everyone else JUST because they can stick a bigger engine in their truck and survive bigger impacts... When they see another company's car broken, they say "if it was an HPI, it wouldn't have broke". In my opinion, HPI will be nothing more than a company know for the Savage.
Believe me, HPI does make some great R/C cars, but the pact that owners go with, they close themselves from the rest of the world. They go on saying how HPI's R/C vehicles are durable, high-performance, blah, blah, blah...
My old boss from the computer repair shop I used to work at. I'll use him as an example.
I was driving my GT2 (Team Associated) nitro stadium truck in the back lot behind the shop when I caught interference and went WOT right into a cement wall, snapping the front sub-chassis and top-plate on my ST.
He starts saying "my touring car could've survived that. Any company's R/C car could've survived that". Touring car and ST? You're comparing open-wheel (like F1 cars) versus closed-wheel cars (GT cars with their wheels protected by the car's body).
[The company has absolutely NO racing heritage and history, whatsoever! My GT2 is a racing machine, not a bashing toy! The GT2 ALSO lives up to the RC10GT's legendary racing history! Jared Tebo fulfilled it in 2006 by winning the ROAR Gas Truck Nationals! The previous Nationals was won by Tebo himself, but with the GT2's predecessor, the GT! Look at this, predecessor and successor! One after the other! One should know that the original GT was released in 1993 and after the Gas Truck class was created in 1995, it won the first year the class was designed, and every Gas Truck National after that!]
Continuing on, he goes on saying that we should race and how he'd beat me with his powerful 4.6 Savage engine and his 'world-class' driving skill.
First off, he didn't even break in the engine properly. He goes WOT and drives it like a scolded dog the first time he started it. He can't tune, and can't turn over his engine consistently.
Then his "world-class" driving. Driving WOT, hitting the brakes, u-turn, and just as the the inside tires lift, he countersteers and brings the tires back and says "see, now that's driving"...
He goes on saying that he could even beat me on a purpose-built off-road track. Not a chance, dips#it can't even land his truck on its wheels...
Then he brings up his "impressive" painting skills. The ability to paint a 1:10 touring car body of HPI's Impreza (like the XMOD). He paints it ALL BLACK... Not even the right color, then takes the decals, sticks 'em on. Doesn't like it, peels it off and tries to stick it back on...
Then, for those who're more experienced with nitro R/C and cut holes in their windows... He sets up his race body by cutting the WHOLE windshield out and then sticking LEDs to his body...
ROAR/IFMAR regulation states that you can only have a windshield hole only as big as less than HALF of the size of the windshield...
Another thing, 9/10 HPI guys I know locally DON'T even perform regular maintenance on their car, NOR do they even install/replace their own parts.
In my boss's case, he spends $500 on the RTR, then $200 for the LHS to install parts (this case, HPI's 3-speed for the Savage), and tune the engine...
The $200 does NOT include the cost of parts... My boss went on about his stock engine not running properly (wasn't even broken-in properly in the first place) and spends $230 on an Axial .32 engine which he has the LHS break-in and tune for him...
Now, I'm NOT saying that ALL HPI guys are like this. But like I said above, 9/10 HPI guys in my area are like this."
Anyway, that's really all I can think of... I did however get back into Pixel art. I tried it at one point by making a pixel car replica of my Kenstyle G35 XMODS body, but I never really finished it... I went back a few weeks ago, this time, with an S14a Silvia that started out as a red bone-stock base. I re-painted it black, stuck on a Vertex Ridge rear bumper, intercooler, wheels, etc. I even put two pixel girls around the car resembling my girlfriend and her sister. I did do an edit with a third girl lying beside the car just to resemble my girlfriend's older sister; 'skanky whore', as my girlfriend calls her.
I won't be posting any pics through blogger lately, as I'm pretty fed up with the image posting properties that it has... It keeps changing the text I type beside the images into hyperlinks... Its annoying and its been like that since I first started blogger...
Well, at least its much cleaner and more professional looking than ModBlog.
Anyway, thanks for reading.
Until next time, chill-out and relax.
posted by Miki01 at 12:50 AM
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