PLAYING DIRTY

While I was wandering around the hobby shop, I found myself inexplicably drawn to the 1/18-scale and smaller shelf. As I perused the myriad of offerings, I thought to myself the miniature rock crawlers, racecars and buggies looked like they could be fun, but how would they hold up?

In the past, I might have thought of this segment as “Toy Grade” radio control because for so long, the quality of smaller