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Competition Custom (SC)XJ [READER’S RIDE]

Reader’s Rides is sponsored by PRO-LINE. Click for the latest gear! Kyle Camilleri sent this gorgeous Axial SCX-10-based XJ all the way from his home on the island of Malta! He built it to compete in the European Recon G6 event held in Maggiora, Italy using a Jeep body given to him by his friend […]

Vintage Scale Perfection: 1946 Dodge Power Wagon [READER’S RIDE]

Reader’s Rides is sponsored by PRO-LINE. Click for the latest gear! Zach Audet told us plans for this build started the second he first saw Pro-Line’s ’46 Power Wagon body for the first time, and seven months later he had what you see here. Ultra-scale was his top priority, so he hand-made his own chassis […]

Old-School Monster Mopar Replica [READER’S RIDE]

Reader’s Rides is sponsored by PRO-LINE. Click for the latest gear! Scott Lempert is a machine when it comes to custom scale builds. He sends in so many awesome projects we could practically give him a tenured position in Reader’s Rides! Just in time for Halloween, his latest build is a retro-themed monster truck patterned […]

Is This The Most-Modded Truck of All Time? [VIDEO]

Reader’s Rides is sponsored by PRO-LINE. Click for the latest gear! Meet Superman. This unlimited class nitro puller is built by Zeek Heard of No Limit RC and (loosely!) based on HPI Savage parts. It sits on a 3/16-inch thick laser-cut aircraft aluminum chassis stretched to 48 inches long, and it weighs 33 pounds (40 […]

Axialfest 2018: Scale Off-Road’s Ultimate Event

Wow, Axialfest 2018 was awesome! I’ve covered this event three years in a row and somehow the gang at Axial find ways to make it better every year; this year was no exception. The amount of entries also increase; this year there were 200 entries more than 2017 and which put the total count close to […]

Asphalt-Burning Bronco Slash GT [READER’S RIDE]

Reader’s Rides is sponsored by PRO-LINE. Click for the latest gear! 3D-printed scale accessories for crawlers are pretty common these days, but Daniel Porter wanted something a little different. He bought himself a printer and started by revamping drag car wings and diffusers he had previously built in styrene and aluminum, but he also wanted […]

Axial Jeep Beach Bomber [READER’S RIDE]

Reader’s Rides is sponsored by PRO-LINE. Click for the latest gear! Would you believe this nicely decked out Axial SCX10 II Jeep Wrangler Unlimited was Peter Lundberg’s very first foray into trail and scale? He had a vision of the look he wanted and he did his research before deciding on the SCX10 II. But […]

Rat Wraith Reborn! [READER’S RIDE]

Reader’s Rides is sponsored by PRO-LINE. Click for the latest gear! Way back in 2015 we first featured Aaron Bailey’s metal-body Rat Wraith 1.9, but he has reinvented the truck so we figured it was worth another look. It’s got a new set of body panels, new paint, plus new custom bumpers and sliders […]

RC Reviews: AARMA GRANITE 4X4

Even the most affordable hobby-grade trucks aren’t what you’d call “cheap,” and that goes double if you want to make the leap to a 4WD machine. And so, we’re pretty intrigued by Arrma’s new Granite 4X4. For less than $250, Arrma lets you hit the dirt with an all-new design that includes all the running […]

Axial Yeti with B.J. Baldwin’s Trophy Truck colors [READER’S RIDES]

Reader’s Rides is sponsored by PRO-LINE. Click for the latest gear! Karel de Koning’s Axial Yeti XL comes to us all the way from The Netherlands, but it was inspired by B.J. Baldwin’s Monster Energy-sponsored Trophy Truck, and most of the upgrades follow that theme—starting with the racing livery. He painted the wheels Monster […]

Crawford Performance Drift Barbarian [READER’S RIDE]

Reader’s Rides is sponsored by PRO-LINE. Click for the latest gear! A drifting monster truck? Michael Iacono had his Pro-Line F-250 body wrapped with the 2016 livery of pro drifter Justin Pawlak to give it a little extra performance mojo, and he assures us that yes—it can drift with the help of Axial aluminum knuckles […]

Team Associated RC8.2e Rigged for Night Ops [READER’S RIDE]

Reader’s Rides is sponsored by PRO-LINE. Click for the latest gear! Mike Dufort says it took him a year—and close to $6000—to upgrade every piece of his stock Team Associated RC8.2e to the best components he could find. The result is a wild creation he calls “Nightrage.” He installed a full set of LED lighting […]