Hi from Canada

[eurocharged]

Hi everyone,

just wanted to introduce myself, My name is Mike and I have been messing around with R/C for a long time, and have recently bought a tamiya 1/14 MAN truck, I found this forum by luck and hope to be a part of this community.

I'm currently in the middle of building my truck, and will post pics when finished

[REV73]

Welcome fellow Canuck!! where are you located??

[steamer]

Welcome to the forum from Vancouver Island B.C. Lots of great builds happening here. Looking forward to seeing some pictures.
Rob

[doodlebug]

Welcome aboard!

[scalelover]

Welcome aboard to a great site, hope you have spare time because you will be spending alot of it here even if you dont we'll be seeing you around.

--Dan

[Dreamweaver]

http://i587.photobucket.com/albums/ss316/MJDreamweaver/Reference%20Pictures/Smillies/welcome1.gif to the board.

[1985 kenworth]

:Dyes welcome,welcome,welcome you will enjoy it here where are you located in canada i'm in ontario

[eurocharged]

:Dyes welcome,welcome,welcome you will enjoy it here where are you located in canada i'm in ontario

i'm located in Toronto, Ontario

thanks for the warm welcome guys !!! i already know i'll be hanging out around here alot

just a quick question, can someone direct me to which section i maybe able to find aluminum fram rails for my tamiya MAN truck

[civic83]

Hey glad to see some one else close by, there's a few of us within about an hour of the gta

[RCLogger]

Welcome Mike, looking forward to watching your build.

Greg from Vancouver Island

[1985 kenworth]

wow thats so cool i'm in brampton ontario:)

[1985 kenworth]

if you are looking for the frame rails from a lhs you can pm me and i can give you a few that can get them for you or you can check out the vendors section on this forum or the buy and sell section hope this helps...good luck and hoping to see pics of what your building

[eurocharged]

what is a LHS, sorry i'm still new to this...

for the local guys in the GTA, do you guys do meets and stuff or is there a certain place you guys run these trucks at ?

[doodlebug]

LHS, Local Hobby Shop.
cheer's, Neil.

[civic83]

We don't have any official meets yet. It there's enough of us. Ow we should work on setting something up

[REV73]

I think setting up some sort of a meet would be great, but the question is who has the time and the know how to organize that sort of thing, I see some of the set ups they run in the u.s. with the roads and piles of dirt and the construction equip and I am amazed. How do we go about starting one?? I would suggest we might think of the Hamilton area for a location as we have members from Brantford, Ancaster, Selkirk, Burlington, and all the way to Toronto now. Thoughts?

[eurocharged]

well, in my daytime job i'm used to organizing big meets for real cars

my sites are www.eurocharged.ca, www.eurocharged.com and www.eurochargedasia.com

I can get my customers to sponsor us some food and drinks, all we need is really an empty parking lot and a BBQ

[civic83]

Hmmm that sounds like a great idea, doesn't fergus have a big truck show every year? Might be able to get in with them?

[REV73]

that would be an awesome place to showcase our stuff, should we contact them about setting up a display???

[civic83]

Way ahead of you rev, I sent them an email. Their shows the end of July , we will see what they say. I think once I hear back from them I'll start up a new thread for the show ( if it's a go), what's everyone think?

[REV73]

I think this could be awesome, they're is bound to be more guys around this area and maybe we could flush them out of the woodwork with a facebook page as well if it becomes a reality. are you thinking just a road course, or do we know some locals with the construction equipment too??

[REV73]

I am already looking forward to it!! this could be awesome.

[eurocharged]

how far away is fergus ?

[REV73]

its not too far north of guelph on highway 6

[eurocharged]

i'm down... just let me know

[1985 kenworth]

yea you can count me in .we should look at doing a city mock up for our trucks i agree i see them in the states but we don't have any here but it would be nice if we could find something indoors that way we can enjoy it year round and not just the summer cuz i'm getting cranky as i'm sure some of you are i have to send another e-mail to the truck club prez it seems i left out a letter and it went somewhere else.its the antique truck club i belong to they have a show every year

[1985 kenworth]

hey guys i got an e-mail back from my truck club prez and he has welcomed us to come along and display and demo our trucks i sent out pm's to all of you hey eurocharge would you be interested in it i have to let the guy know at least one month before so he can add it to the events lineup so far only got one reply back it is being held july 1st weekend in clifford,ontario let me know

[REV73]

I am interested in going, what kind of facility is the show going to be held at?? and where exactly is clifford??

[eurocharged]

sounds real interesting

i need to check my schedule if i'm in the country on that date, i will let you know on Monday

[civic83]

Hey guys, just an update. Anyone from ontario thats interested im starting up an informal club for us with a site to host some pics and stuff on, might give us more cred when trying to get into events. The site willbe swomta.ca (south western ontario model truckers association). The site will not be a forum, just a place to show off our trucks. No cost for membership either. Hopefully the site will be up in a couple weeks.

[REV73]

sounds awesome, I was actually thinking of cool names for a club if we started one and came up with swomt...pretty funny that you had almost the exact same idea. nice work!

[1985 kenworth]

hey guys according to the prez its all grass except there is a pavillion with covering with a concrete base we can set up in and probably have to ourselves and he is so interested he said they can definetely work something out for us if that does'nt work .i'm not sure how big this pavillion is i think it would be large enough for a crowd of people to sit under ..i will find out more and let everyone know as far as where is clifford i'm not sure where i remember seeing that sign but i remember passing it at one time but again i will find out and let everyone know .count me in about the model truck club i'm sure we can figure something out and have get-togethers to showcase our trucks and run them

[civic83]

I beleive its up near palmerston. This should be fun, i better get working on my scale warehouse.......

[1985 kenworth]

yea i checked the map it is up near harriston looks like around 40 km south east from walkerton on highway 9 its a ways up from me in brampton probably about 1hr to 1hr 30mins depending on traffic :D

[chaseracer]

welcome from canada

[Stuff]

Howdy from Sask!

[hippy]

hello form alberta

[Madmarl]

Hi! I'm up in Fort Sakatchewan, Alberta. Been into R/C for 28 years, mostly airplanes and helis. I picked up a E-Savage at a garage sale with a burned out ESC. Replaced it with a brushless setup and. Now it won't stay wheels down!! I was looking for more of a crawler/dozer setup. I really would like a scale D-9( I have a long driveway with alot of snow to move!). Where would one find a kit/ prebuilt model?

[MoRockN]

Welcome to the forums!

[kaptain Jack]

Sounds exiting!