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Why Do People Learn How To Use RC Vehicles?

Model Man — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 00:30:08 +0000

RC vehicles are important to many people across the world and this is because it is of course a major hobby across the world.

Lot’s of people out there feel that all of the people that get together to use these in big groups are a bit geeky but the thing is it can be a very good and healthy social event for people to take part in and they meet up a fair number of times during a year. Although sports such as football prove to be very social they are also prone to injuries, disagreements and even fighting.

Getting together and flying your favourite remote control helicopter is not going to cause anyone any harm at all. At an event like this one I have to say that the only thing that could actually go wrong is that you may crash the vehicle which of course would cost a lot of money.

So how do you then take your love of this and make is a professional hobby? Well one of the first things that I would advise you do is actually drop the plastic model kits although these have helped you to understand how to build things you will find that putting together parts of a machine is slightly different.

learn how to do this kind of thing by getting an RC car and ripping it apart, then put it together again. Once you have done this then go after RC tanks and then move up to the planes and helicopters as this is where the real challenge lies.

Once your first model has been aquired is is best to learn how to fly it, do not think it is a simple task to do. There are many computer programmes out there to help people with this kind of thing and it is a good thing to learn from.

The main thing to learn from this is that you should enjoy them!

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What Is Custom Model Building?

Model Man — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 00:30:05 +0000

Lego Star Wars

There are a lot of people out there that like going to stores and picking out one of those model kits that they like and simply build it and stick it on their shelf but are there many people out there that have all kinds of parts and build them to their liking? Well of course there are and this is what is known as custom model building.

Where Does This Occur?

It would seem that most of this occurs in the film industry and this is because they need model kits for all kinds of things and the problem is you cannot simply go out to a store and buy the kind of thing that they are after. Could you imagine what movies would be like if they were simply limited to packs that you could get in stores, all of the Sci-Fi movies would look identical, certainly the older ones anyway!

Film companies will often have the opportunity to have access to all kinds of parts and pieces and it is these that they use to put together the massive models featured in movies. Helicopters are created with RC helicopters and the same goes for things like RC aircraft. On many old films you can really tell that the things they are using are models but with more recent technology it can be very hard to tell the difference between models, CGI and real life.

Of course on top of this you will see a lot of people that just build up various things for a bit of fun. The best examples of these actually come from Hornby train sets and things like this because people build up the sets to go around the track and some of these really do look fantastic.

There are people that collect much of same thing to build up a collection like the video at the top of the post!

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Model Kits Are Helped By Sci-Fi

Model Man — Thu, 06 May 2010 08:08:58 +0000

Well when model kits first hit the mainstream market in the 60s it has to be said that they were mainly about getting together as a family and building whatever model you actually bought but things have changes a lot since then.

It would seem that after people realised that a lot of these model kits were kind of the same thing they had started to get a bit bored with it all and this meant that the industry started to see a fall in the sales of their model kits but it all changed when something big happened. This is until major television programmes such as Star Trek which was first released in 1966 started to ship model kits to stores. Because the fans felt so strongly about the franchise they actually would always rush out to buy the newest models. On top of this it would seem that when other franchises came along such as Star Wars, more and more people started to get interested in model kits.

Has Sci-Fi Saved Model Kits?

I think that it is more than true to say that without selling many Sci-Fi model kits there would be no way that some model companies would still be around today. Although there is nothing wrong at all with people actually going out and getting models from their favourite Sci-Fi flicks, what happened to building model ships?.

Now there are all kinds of models around that are out there because of Sci-Fi franchises such as RC helicopters and RC tanks from the terminator films to crazy figures from movies such as Star Wars. Even big companies like Lego are finding themselves to be doing things like this and even though they do not want too they are selling best.

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Scalextric Rocks

Model Man — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 23:29:15 +0000

Scalextric

When I was a bit younger I had not heard of Scalextric sets This is until one of my uncle’s actually popped round with his entire collection and decided that it would be a great idea to assemble a track so we did and there were corners all over the place and the track went around every room in the downstairs area.

If you are not sure what Scalextric is then it is basically just slot car racing which is of course racing small cars that are powered by grooves or “slots” within the track itself. The user of the car will actually control the small model using just one button, squeezing hard for fast and soft for slow. Usually the tracks come as sets but you can mostly combine different tracks as we did to make a massive track.

Many people feel that Scalextric is actually a pretty boring thing to do but if you don’t get one of the simply circle tracks you can actually find that you will have a lot of fun with the stuff. The more corners, bridges and twists you have in the track the harder it is to successfully race without falling off so bare this in mind.. Once you go around a very tight corner you are going to have to slow down or you are off.

Although many people think that racing Scalextric cars are a bit of thing to do if you are kids this really is not the case and to have a proper race with them takes a lot of skill indeed.

Of course if these are not your thing why not look into something like RC cars or perhaps RC helicopters. Take into consideration that all of these are very hard to use in the right way.

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