07/02/2025

No more Clio

It’s not really a surprise, it has been begging for death since I bought it, but I have finally parted ways with the Clio. I have had 2 years of pain with this car, and although I lost loads of money, I was quite glad to see the back of it to be honest. This […]

12/01/2025

WLToys 284131 Burago 1/24 M3

I found a cool Burago die-cast E36 M3 on eBay for not much money, so I thought I would try to adapt a WLToys car to fit it. I started off with a K989/284131, which is the pickup truck style of WLToys 1/28 RC car. I fitted an aluminium suspension kit that I found on […]

12/01/2025

Fan Car v2

After my experiments with the first fan car, I was really impressed with it’s speed on good surfaces (laminate, thin carpet), but it was entirely dependent on a smooth surface due to it’s limited (front) or no (rear) suspension. For the second version, I thought I may as well start with an already competent RC […]

12/01/2025

Fan Car v1

Built around November 2023 The Fan Car was inspired by unlimited Tamiya Mini-4WD cars I saw on YouTube, some of which use 8520 coreless motors and small drone propellers for propulsion. I built this simple RC car to experiment with using propellers, and these motors are quite inexpensive. I had initially planned to use additional […]