A year went by...

It's exactly a year since I last posted here. Apart from a few local trips out with one or other of my trucks and crawlers, very little has happened in my RC world. In the real and very much wider world our family life was ripped apart by the loss of my partner Heather, who very sadly and suddenly died of a brain haemorrhage back in February. It has been a truly heartbreaking time for all concerned. She had five children, three older boys from her first marriage, and Sean and Kala from her second. These two have gone to live with their natural father and his own third wife, and have moved away to another town some 40 miles from where I am now writing from. He and I never really got on, and he wants the younger kids to have nothing further to do with me, and strongly exerts his influence to make sure that we have no contact.

Back to RC, I still have my existing projects boxed away. I suppose it is now time to get it all out and work out what I am going to next with it all. I have spare Clodbuster gearboxes, an assortment of various useful bits and pieces, and the old (previously mentioned) 1/6 Hummer body.

The Arachnid now has bigger and better wheels, although it hasn't been out with them fitted as yet. The Axial has gained a bit more weight since the last time I wrote about it, and now has a new 3Racing aluminium upper link bearing mount on its front gearbox, being as the original plastic one wore itself away. The Zilla still runs fine, although it has now consumed yet another MG995 front servo. Cheap and cheerful as they are, and also due to the fact that it is just the upper case that fails making it easy to replace, I suppose I will just have to order another couple of the buggers.