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Clean while you play with the Samsun Navibot

This is every parent’s dream. You buy your child a remote control toy to play with, which they then proceed to drive crazily around the entire house. This may sound like a bit of a typical annoyance, however,  this isn’t the case if the ‘toy’ you buy them is the new Navibot by Samsung.
This RC […]

Powered cycles are the easy way to travel

Everyone loves playing with the latest gadgets and gizmos, from RC cars to RC helicopters there is always a buzz when the next model comes out or a new concept in RC racing evolves. One great thing about RC models is the way that they have progressively evolved into the advanced pieces of kit we […]

To Do or Not To Do?

Have you ever felt guilty sitting down doing nothing? Or when you’re playing with your gadgets? Well now you can play and feel like you are doing something useful. Well, sort of. A mini radio controlled forklift truck is the working mans boy toy and now you too can lift and move boxes around just […]

Hire cars are like giant radio controlled cars

One of the things I love about racing radio controlled cars is the fact that you can thrash the cars round the track without any thought or care for the car itself. It’s just a toy, therefore you can take corners at speeds (scale speeds obviously) you wouldn’t normally consider in your own car.
I always […]

Robot plane flies to Antarctic

There was a time when going to the Antarctic was something of a trek. You’d have to prepare for months beforehand, raise funds and convince your loved ones that it was a worthwhile cause.
Those days are gone however as now you can just pop down there with your radio controlled plane and potter about as […]

Radio controlled car club faces closure

You’d expect maybe to have some problems with the council due to noise abatement laws if you were playing loud music, having all night parties or being rowdy… but playing with some radio controlled cars?
As mad as it seems, an Australian RC club (The Melbourne Radio Control Car Racers) is being threatened with closure by […]

RC Planes were made to be flown!

I just found this story on the Rio Rancho Observer website about an RC plane club who had donated a radio controlled model plane to the children’s department of a library.
Now this seems like a nice thing to do, the kids get a radio controlled planed, the RC club get mentioned in the press and […]

Leonard Pong owns over 100 Tamiya RC Cars

Leonard Pong is a 26 year old property developer, and an avid radio control car collector. He has amassed over 100 Tamiya radio controlled cars and travels all over the World racing them.

He is interviewed by the Star where he talks about his obsession, and why he needs to have so many radio controlled cars… […]

CS Raceway, RC car racing track

Steve Bess, of Gaston County USA, takes his hobby of racing radio controlled cars so seriously that he started his own business for the ’sport’. Steve managed to acquire funding to the tune of $25,000 for the C&S Raceway from Gaston County.

Steve says that racing model cars isn’t just for kids, it’s for people of […]

Welcome to my RC models

MyRCModels.com is my own website about my hobby, radio controlled models. This includes cars, planes, helicopters and boats. I’ll be posting up photos of some of my collection, how I build them, paint them and use them as well as details of Radio Controlled model meets throughout the UK.
Have fun!
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