Cooper here. Been a member for a couple of years but never was able to get into crawlers until last week. Dithered between lusting after scale vs. sportsman set-ups. Picked up a RTR Gmade R1 for myself for my birthday, and been enjoying the daylights out of it. So far, just loosened a bunch of screws, lost a few here and there, but no damage.
I've been into RC 1/10 short course trucks for a while, carbon fiber / magnesium RCE Slash platforms, one for the track, another for bashing, another for playing in a skate bowl down the street and a couple of shelf queens. I like building 'em on par with driving 'em.
the Gmade forum is kinda sleepy, but that's okay, the critical spares seem to available, advice is all over the map there, and I'm looking forward to tweaking.
My entry rig...