RC Bashers

Well, my course has taken alot of forms over the past year or two. BUt this version is by far the best. My daughter and I hit up Home Depot and spent about $100 in materials, took right at 5 hours to do all of this.

We started with chicken wire, "Big Gap" expanding foam, and crack resistant concrete. Here's my little helper...


The foam part and making the wire structure was very easy.


No mountain is complete without a tunnel. We also fed a small tube to the top of the mountain to creat a waterfall once we get to the water portion of the trail. I also placed a winch spot at the top just incase Tarus comes over and his rig cant make it.


Used some fine mesh screen to create this little rock


The trail portion leading up to the mountain


And here is the completed trail, part 1 of 3. I'm going for right at 40-50ft of hardcore/fun trail. I'm going to incorporate everything from steep sheer faces that may require a winch, to waterfalls, bridges and tunnels. The best part, my wife LOVES it. She wants me to do more believe it or not!


Here's the sheer face. I hit everything with some streaks of black and gray paint to give it a more realistic boulder look.


The tunnel is big enough to get my Bronco through, I doubt the Wraith will fit, but then again this trail is for my scaler and crawler. I'll add some yard lights and a waterfall once I get that far into the trail. The wooden bridge leading off the mountain will segway into the next portion. More to come...


So, what do you think? Not to bad for a half days work huh?

nice job. looks pretty good and taking shape!

thats awsome man! and awesome the sig other loves it too. its very nice land scaping. i bet the flowers are the part she likes the most. i think you need to go around your whole property line now.

im going across the fence row in the back yard. I've got 40-50 ft to use

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just off alta trail... it's a good mix of trail and crawl.

Nice area man!
got carried away and went over to the city part and saw a whale watching thing you ever checked it out? One thing on the ol bucket list like to do one day and go check out the uss hornet.
Need to plan a day to maybe come hang at your spot

it's a fun spot but the walk up there can be brutal. Since I have been juicing and lost some weight though it was a lot easier last week, I had not walked it in a long time. Anyways. we should for sure hook up for a drive in one of our spots.

I haven't done a lot of touristy stuff in SF really... only rode one cable car and that's about it. The marina is pretty cool though from what the wife says, worth a look see if you are in the area.

I got about another 10 ft or so done yesterday. It includes a mud bog and a trail that wraps around and goes through a series of clean out troughs...

water trough goes through the tunnel and holds about 4-5 inches of water.

Then it curls around and goes over a series of rocks and other obsitcals like my Model A rim.

I've got alot more planned for it. I'm figuring on at least another section or two.

the trail continues to grow. This past week I aded about another 10ft.



This includes another washout that will hold water, gravel, etc. that leads to another homemade rock.


Then to a culvert that you drive over that leads to what I can only best describe as stepping stones and then to a twist ditch.


The trail will go about another 15-20 ft before I cross the yard to the spot I'm putting my double water falls complete with a drive under road that'll go undernieth the larger fall, and around the fish pond on the bottom level. The upper portion will drop about 2ft, then the 2nd level will drop about 4 ft to the lowest level. The route leading to this will be a steep hill climb complete with "downed trees" and other obsticles.

looks awesome man., this build is as detailed as all the rc builds!. now you just need some mini scale trail signs and its ready to go! maybe some permanent spectators too!

i was reading that some parts were almost too easy? what have you done to alter things.?

you'll see

nice adition to the trail section. Man thet is looking killer. Wish you were closer and I'd come over for some mud times.lol Nice work dude.

thanks. Wish some of you guys were closer as well. I wil;l have this thing at a comp level before to much longer. I have found that I need more rocks, lol.

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And last but not least my workshop

awesome dude. not gonna lie. little jealous of the workshop!

those places look awesome to crawl at!

Don't have any fancy tools but it is a good place to hide for a while.

nice! Very organized. Complete opposite of my station

That was after I cleaned it up. It's usually a disaster area!

Update on the trail. Ive done some rearranging on the first portion...

But the main update is in the completion of phase three. Ive got the uphill rock run finished and a rock gateway made as well.

Heres the entrance to the swinging bridge. It doesnt swing very much, but it leans,lol.


Next phase, the waterfalls and the pond.

If I can score that $200 ax10 im eyeballin ill try it out up in our backyard (our backyard bein them hills!). Plenty o clearcut to crawl & game trails to sample!

heck, i have 25 acres with creeks and hills on it. i'm building a ttc course in a holler with lots of water and hills. can't wait till i get a better truck

If I had property like that to run on Id never go in the house.

between airsoft and rc's i usually don't!! lol

Is that a rock slide rs10

talkin about HD's rig? i think it is with some mods