Large Scale News

How cool is this? Ok I know it’s not a 30.5 dune reaping baja but it is worth taking a look. And the motor RUNS! No its not R/C but we thought you would find this model car intriguing and inspiring. The attention to detail is hard to even get a grasp of the amount of work and effort that has went into it.

Check out the video of the engine running.

Take a look at the link here to read more, and while your surfing bounce around to the home page and see a lot of other really cool project.
http://craftsmanshipmuseum.com/Chenot.htm

LSN is primarily an R/C site but we hope to share interesting things that somehow relate to what we love about R/C and model building. This is one of those “LSN Finds” that we hope you will enjoy.

Post your comments below.

Available Soon at TGN!

Big news for us Large Scale fans. The world famous engine builder Bi Zeta Motors has announced they are entering the R/C market with a line of engines made as a direct replacement of your CY and Zenoah style motors. To see more details of the engine and a video of this beast on the dyno CLICK HERE.

This is something us gasser guys have dreamed of for years. Ever since the Go-Ped days we have wished we could convince BZM and other small performance engine companies to consider making “us” a motor. Well the time has come. Bi Zeta Motors has been announced a new line of engines. Available first as a 23cc and then leading into a 26cc and 28.5cc. But don’t worry, the 23cc is showing a dyno reading of 6hp+ at almost 15,000RPM. Now that is a MONSTER!

Our friends at MMR will be handling the UK distribution and TGN will be heading up the US market. LSN has been told we will get sneak peaks of this engine and more details very soon. So stay tuned…….

More about Bi Zeta Motors

Bi Zeta Motor designs and manufactures aftermarket-performance engines and special racing parts, playing a leading role in a complex and constantly evolving market. Pocketbikes, ultralight aircraft, model-nautical, -aeronautics, -motoring, are the main sectors ask our support, finding in our products an answer for their specific requirements.

A young and active leadership, exeperienced technical staff, as well as suppliers selection, able to be up to our rigorous quality control standards, determine the strategic line of the company, based on research and technological development.

Study at first, then engineering and prototypes achievement, lastly exsasperated captive tests, allow us to get innovating products, at high level of performance, spreading Bi Zeta Motor brand around the world joined to Made in Italy style.

Watch Part 2 HERE.

LSN unboxes the Castle Creations HPI baja brushless conversion combo kit. Watch the video below to see what’s inside this box.

This is Part 1 of a series of videos and posts we plan on doing here at LSN. We

Want to convert your HPI baja 5s or other models? Check out all the details HERE.
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Did you know that every month you can eat up some ONEFIFTH goodness over at Xtreme RC Cars Magazine. Thats right, check out what Scott G. and Extreme is doing for our industry by subscribing to this magazine. They show us the support so lets show it to them. Check them out HERE.

We would like to personally thank them for all that they do. Keep it up guys!

It’s that time of year again! Who is headed out to the Diggers Dungeon this year? Post your comments below and let’s see how many people are going.

More information HERE!

This one came as a surprise to us. HPI announced on their Europe site they will be selling a Slipper Clutch set for their 1/5 scale baja lineup.

HPI has spent a decent amount of effort on HP parts and some are obvious steps to improve on current issues and are often just a replacement for of a stock part. This slipper clutch for your baja 5b, 5t, ss, 5sc seems to be the first item from HPI that took a good amount of R&D and leans toward the racing scene. Which to me is interesting because I have always had big dreams for the 1/5 racing and this part along with many others coming these days prove large-scale racing is here and HPI and others are listening.

I would like to see your comments below about this item and how it may work for you. Will you try this slipper for racing or will you find a use for it in everyday bashing?

http://www.hpieurope.com/piw.php?lang=en&partNo=85474

UPDATE: New link is here: http://www.hpiracing.com/press/85474.html

UPDATE: Link is no longer working, looks like HPI pulled it from the site. Interesting…..

TGN is proud to announce we are official distributors for the all new 1/5 scale products from Castle Creations-Mamba.  Click here to see the entire line at TGN! Including VIDEO!

The AMA Expo is a special show for me. I started going to this show before AMA even operated it. It was in the late 90’s when I attended the show with a friend of mine and I saw a guy who was making conversion kits to install weedeater engines in model airplanes. At the time I was heavy into R/C boats and Go-Ped scooters, both of which used 2-stroke weedeater style engines. The guy was making these simple aluminum mufflers and I thought to myself that maybe there is a good alternative to a large heavy tuned pipe and the stocker stamped steel canister style mufflers. From that the X-Can was born and my company known as TeamGoNads was started. I have attended almost every show since that day.

The show is geared mostly to model airplanes but there is always something to be gained from going to shows like this. You get fresh ideas and get to meet other industry people who you have something in common with. This year Losi was the only car manufacture displaying, partly I am sure because they had their popular Horizon booth located just across from them. It was clear that even though the show was mostly airplane enthusiasts the kids and their parents all enjoyed watching and driving the RC cars.

You run across stuff like this and you cant help but to daydream about putting one of these in a large scale HPI baja or some sort of custom built car or truck.

Castle Creating/Mamba, the leaders in the brushless scene were there with their HPI baja 5t on display. The motor for this thing is HUGE.

TGN will be offering the complete 1/5 scale line from Castle Creations and Mamba. Check it out.

Check out this great idea from a company called Clay Modelers. They give you everything you need to to design your own 1/10 scale body from clay. I assume you could then mold the design and create fiberglass shells or event a vacuum formed mold. Its not cheap but it does look intriguing.

Got to love the vintage stuff.

Check out this old car. Post your comment  below if you know the name and maker of this model. First person to post a comment WINS a TGN shirt!

Anyone up for a ride?

About 3 weeks before Xmas we got a strange call from a local writer asking if they could come interview the owner. Thinking it could be a possible sales pitch, I almost turned them down, but I decided what the heck and I made an appointment.

In the end it was a great opportunity! The writer had this idea of doing a story on “what to buy your man for Christmas”. Well I know what to buy him, something radio controlled, and even better, something from my store! In so many words that’s what the article was about. It’s a smaller paper here locally in Visalia. More reading below if you’re interested.

TGN had set up a raffle for a HPI baja 5b RTR kit that was to be built on location by volunteers, including a custom paint job done right on location. Large scale fans from all over the world donated for the chance to win this great prize. Sponsors included SkoPod, Craftwerks-RC, DDM, TeamChase, TeamFastEddy, Simple Baja Stand, Custom Street Toyz, X-Treme Clean and HPI. Many people helped with their time or with needed parts and we would like to give a special thanks to the main 3 guys who helped build our giveaway baja- JoJo, Carlos and Jeff. You guys were machines! TGN would also like to thank all the raffle participants whohelped raise $1,500 for the Toys for Toys Foundation. The lucky winner of the HPI baja 5b was Jon-Cris Paguia and was on location to hear his name called. I dont think we could have pulled a name of a more excited and appreciative person. Congrats Jon-Chris and most of all HAVE FUN!

Here is a video that the winner Jon-Cris Paguia posted on YouTube of his complete HPI baja 5b RTR and Simple Baja Stand:

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