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dman18t 01-11-2020 08:10 AM


Originally Posted by Zerodefect (Post 15575829)
Rules are good. Just ban the Zoodiac, Pzero, and Venom bodies.

I can't get on the scale liveries only train, until hobby shops start carrying scale decal sets. I'm not ordering decals from albania or china.

If demand goes up, hobby stores will stock decal sheets. Besides, I did mine with no decals, it can be done! I just scavenged what I already had.
https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.rct...c49226f901.jpg

Knockoffracer 01-11-2020 08:42 AM

Looks awesome Dman!

NutDriver 01-11-2020 08:50 AM

Body list
 
There wasn't a body list until a couple of years ago. My recollection is that Rob was quite opposed to a body list, but conceded due to the volume of people asking for one. As far as scale liveries go, some of us have been around long enough to remember Autographoics and their demise. I have also spoken directly to people in the hobby who made scale decals getting cease-and-desist letters from companies as large as Ferrari.
Rob has operated USGT and USVTA rules as a benevolent dictatorship. He may (or may not) listen to what you have yo say. He WILL do what he thinks is best....and he's been doing a damned good job for more than a decade.
Put down the keyboard, pick up the transmitter.

Raman 01-11-2020 11:32 AM

I make my own liveries by going to brands of the world and downloading vectors. Then I resize and organise them in an illustrator file, when done, send it to Carl Seils here on a RCtech and he prints them for me.

these are two that I have done for M Chassis. The blue / white won me concours at TCS.


https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.rct...3a1ecaf6b.jpeg
https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.rct...ea8172dec.jpeg
https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.rct...e8079a1e3.jpeg

dman18t 01-11-2020 01:50 PM


Originally Posted by NutDriver (Post 15575970)
There wasn't a body list until a couple of years ago. My recollection is that Rob was quite opposed to a body list, but conceded due to the volume of people asking for one. As far as scale liveries go, some of us have been around long enough to remember Autographoics and their demise. I have also spoken directly to people in the hobby who made scale decals getting cease-and-desist letters from companies as large as Ferrari.
Rob has operated USGT and USVTA rules as a benevolent dictatorship. He may (or may not) listen to what you have yo say. He WILL do what he thinks is best....and he's been doing a damned good job for more than a decade.
Put down the keyboard, pick up the transmitter.

Not saying he wasn't doing a good job. In fact, a great job but there IS a divide between scale guys and all out TC 2.0 guys. This has not been successfully addressed. That was what I was getting at.

Alfa's look awesome!

Oh and I did put the keyboard down, I was at practice all day today.

dman18t 01-11-2020 01:50 PM


Originally Posted by NutDriver (Post 15575970)
There wasn't a body list until a couple of years ago. My recollection is that Rob was quite opposed to a body list, but conceded due to the volume of people asking for one. As far as scale liveries go, some of us have been around long enough to remember Autographoics and their demise. I have also spoken directly to people in the hobby who made scale decals getting cease-and-desist letters from companies as large as Ferrari.
Rob has operated USGT and USVTA rules as a benevolent dictatorship. He may (or may not) listen to what you have yo say. He WILL do what he thinks is best....and he's been doing a damned good job for more than a decade.
Put down the keyboard, pick up the transmitter.

Not saying he wasn't doing a good job. In fact, a great job but there IS a divide between scale guys and all out TC 2.0 guys. This has not been successfully addressed. That was what I was getting at.

Alfa's look awesome!

Oh and I did put the keyboard down, I was at practice all day today.

NutDriver 01-11-2020 03:36 PM

As you can see, I haven't been able to put down the keyboard today. Family member in hospital and I've spent a good portion of 10 days bedside. I'm hoping to get back to the track on 1/19/20. I don't even have anything to paint or wrench on! :-(

Scott

glennhl 01-11-2020 04:30 PM

I ran the USGT Spec motor today on a medium size asphalt track. My first impression was it's slow, but after gearing it taller, I think it's fantastic. Everyone was very equal down the back straight. I geared all the way to 3.13 but ran out of gears. I ordered some more gears when I got back from the track, I'm going to try below 3.0 to see if that works ever better. My motor never even got hot, I could put my thumb on it and feel a little warmth after a 5 minute race.

jlfx car audio 01-11-2020 05:37 PM


Originally Posted by Billy Kelly (Post 15575582)
Bit of practice last night.

https://youtu.be/2boO2nTpkr8

what kinda layout is that ?!
looks like they don’t want racers ... they need some product to make sure racers actually have a layout to run on , not wreck on , wow

Billy Kelly 01-12-2020 04:44 AM


Originally Posted by jlfx car audio (Post 15576212)
what kinda layout is that ?!
looks like they don’t want racers ... they need some product to make sure racers actually have a layout to run on , not wreck on , wow

it’s small but it works. They change it every week or so. Same layout is used of off road also.



St.Charles stepped up when Chicagoland had 5 tracks close over a 18 month period. When Windy City closed in May. It looked bad for the area. I’m a fringe racer at best. New Years was my first on road carpet racing. I’d done one buggy race in November.


It might not be what the super hardcore want, too small. But it’s been shown that, despite Chicagoland having over 5 million people, there aren’t enuff to support a big track.

robk 01-12-2020 10:34 AM


Originally Posted by Zerodefect (Post 15575829)
Rules are good. Just ban the Zoodiac, Pzero, and Venom bodies.

I can't get on the scale liveries only train, until hobby shops start carrying scale decal sets. I'm not ordering decals from albania or china.

MCI racing.... Canada https://mciracing.ca/

Or ask Carl Seils here, Custom Racing Stickers, he has a lot of stuff, or he can draw it up for you....Wisconsin

https://www.rctech.net/forum/paintin...-stickers.html

zaraz 01-12-2020 06:20 PM

anyone use the mci decals are they tamiya quality any review would be great.

Raman 01-12-2020 07:03 PM


Originally Posted by zaraz (Post 15576713)
anyone use the mci decals are they tamiya quality any review would be great.

MCI is good quality. Tamiya quality you won't find anywhere.. Their print quality is of a different level.

Nerobro 01-12-2020 07:53 PM


Originally Posted by robk (Post 15576473)
Or ask Carl Seils here, Custom Racing Stickers, he has a lot of stuff, or he can draw it up for you....Wisconsin

https://www.rctech.net/forum/paintin...-stickers.html

Just backing up the suggestion of Car Seils. He's good. Not "cheap", but this is a case where you get what you pay for. It's worth the dollars.

Knockoffracer 01-13-2020 05:18 AM

MCI decals aren't bad at all for what they cost. You can also change what colours they print them in. In addition to this, you can order them in reverse print for installation on the inside of the body. The finish of the decals can be changed as well. I've probably purchased 8 or 9 decal sets for vintage Tamiya cars and never had an issue they didn't resolve quickly(one issue only). Friend of mine buys from them regularly. He like to put a MTN Dew livery on his cars for some reason, lol.


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