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CCS Crawler Club - Competition in Venezuela

CCS Crawler Club - Competition in Venezuela

Recently I have been heading up the twitter account for Axial racing. Overall I have found some great and interesting tweets, but nothing as awesome as this! Who knew RC rock crawling was so big in Venezuela? I sure didn’t…but either way, this is great coverage and awesome to see Venezuela show there love [...]

Rock Racing - King of the Hammers - Poison Spyder

Rock Racing - King of the Hammers - Poison Spyder

Photos: Poison Spyder, Rodney Wills, Randall Davis
There is no doubt that the crawler segment of the RC hobby will continue to grow, the question is, which direction will it go, and why? We have seen a tremendous shift from the competition style of crawling toward the scale side of crawling in the last year. No, [...]

Rallye Aicha des Gazelles - Worlds Toughest?

As fans of Axial, you may well know that we love adventures… and especially with our participation within the RECON Crawlers G6 Adventure Challenges. Thus, in the spirit of Adventure Challenges of all kinds, I came across an event that is at the very root of “hardcore adventure” and I place this event atop [...]

Full size Honchos at Portland International Auto Show

Full size Honchos at Portland International Auto Show

We have been following the build process for Team driver Ryan Gerrish and friends as he prepares for the Portland International Auto Show. What we didn’t know is Ryan had a few full size Honchos lined up to be apart or near his rock crawling display. We recieved images this afternoon and just had to [...]

The SBG County Mounty Wraith

The SBG County Mounty Wraith

 
Kevin Jowett and the Scale Builder’s Guild crew are on a mission as of late. Not that they would spend their time in any other way, but, the builds coming out of that community are fantastic. We recently featured a full custom project built by Kevin Jowett and company using a substantial amount of SCX10 components. [...]

Magam Trophy 2010

Magam Trophy 2010

Not sure how many of you, if any, have heard of this race/rally. I recently stumbled across some video on YouTube from the 2010 Magam Trophy event. I must admit I was impressed to say the least, these guys are pretty hardcore. I could see this event being shrunk down to meet our scale R/C [...]

Axial Wraith goes to BAJA 1000

Axial Wraith goes to BAJA 1000

Axial Wraith goes to the 44th Annual SCORE Baja 1000
My buddy Mark “Sarge” Schleipfer of Jackson Motorsports working in conjunction with BFGoodrich; drives an 18-wheeler for BFG Pit Support #3 for the Baja 1000. While he asked if I wanted to come work the pit for the week in Mexico, this year was not my [...]

2011 SEMA Show - Bender’s Take

2011 SEMA Show - Bender’s Take

As most of you know, Axial attended the 2011 SEMA Show in Las Vegas, Nevada recently. We had been secretly working with some strategic technical partners to give a sneak peek at the show of our latest vehicle, the Exo. Since Axial is predominantly known for making R/C crawlers, the release of the Exo was [...]

Step by Step Wraith Kit Build - Part VI - Final Assembly

Step by Step Wraith Kit Build - Part VI - Final Assembly

For the final installment of our Wraith kit build series we will turn this beast into a roller. We will finish the chassis assembly, marry the chassis to the transmission and axles, install the body panels, mount the tires to the wheels and bolt them up to the axles. Start on page 34 of the [...]

Step by Step Wraith Kit Build - Part V - Chassis

Step by Step Wraith Kit Build - Part V - Chassis

Next step in our Wraith kit build is the assembly of the chassis. Flip to page 26 in the Wraith kit manual, start with step 25.
Find bag E and the corresponding parts required from the various parts trees.

We will start with the light buckets, grab everything you will need to complete this step.

Grab the first [...]

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