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simplechamp · 03:11 AM

My first RC was a Micro-T. It was fun at the start, fun to hop up and go brushless, all alloy, etc and see this tiny little thing scream at 25-30mph. But in the end I dropped hundreds of dollars on a tiny little vehicle ($25 oil shocks at that scale? yep) that flipped over on the littlest pebble and spun out constantly. It was too limited for how much I put into it.

If I were to have one again I'd get a lipo (HC has 'em for cheap, at least they did) and probably the brushless setup (also need upgraded receiver to use ESC and standard 3-wire servo), but all the alloy is pretty much useless at that scale IMO. Plastic parts are dirt cheap for it, and alloy is exactly the opposite. It's great for bombing around the house or driveway. Even the stock setup for $80 would be fun, as long as you think of it as a novelty, and not a main vehicle to focus a lot of time and money on. Just my 2 cents.

I agree with E-Revonut that if you want a little vehicle to fill the time in between your other ones, go for a 1/18th or 1/16th. (I actually went to the Mini-T after the Micro-T, and did the same pattern exactly before learning my lesson, only full size for me from now on!)

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simplechamp RC-Monster Titanium Offline Posts: 1,884 Join Date: Jul 2009	12.15.2009, 02:56 AM My first RC was a Micro-T. It was fun at the start, fun to hop up and go brushless, all alloy, etc and see this tiny little thing scream at 25-30mph. But in the end I dropped hundreds of dollars on a tiny little vehicle ($25 oil shocks at that scale? yep) that flipped over on the littlest pebble and spun out constantly. It was too limited for how much I put into it. If I were to have one again I'd get a lipo (HC has 'em for cheap, at least they did) and probably the brushless setup (also need upgraded receiver to use ESC and standard 3-wire servo), but all the alloy is pretty much useless at that scale IMO. Plastic parts are dirt cheap for it, and alloy is exactly the opposite. It's great for bombing around the house or driveway. Even the stock setup for $80 would be fun, as long as you think of it as a novelty, and not a main vehicle to focus a lot of time and money on. Just my 2 cents. I agree with E-Revonut that if you want a little vehicle to fill the time in between your other ones, go for a 1/18th or 1/16th. (I actually went to the Mini-T after the Micro-T, and did the same pattern exactly before learning my lesson, only full size for me from now on!) Last edited by simplechamp; 12.15.2009 at 03:11 AM.