Here we are & this RC is still relevant. The latest sale has brought it out again I’ve always looked at it & admired it but the price of 500$ was abit much. Now at 299$ I had to get one. It’s different & is very upgradable.
I agree with all your statements..I have a teal one an I can second it will last a long time...mine took a tumble down a rocky hill flipping about 30+ times with zero damage...I truly was shocked it had no damage as it was all on jagged rocks. Also drove it at the beach against ppls opinions and I took it home opened the diffs and trans mission zero sand got in the internals of the truck...axial did a nice job except on the scale size of the rig. I have had issues with the servo...opened it up and I stripped part of the gear and can tell you the servo is not waterproof regardless of if they say it is.
I agree, I believe it is like a 1/7th scale if you do calculations, I believe SBG calculate it. Just slap some C1 tires, a full size action figure (8”-9”) since the body is huge! Add some accessories, and you have the ultimate C1 class out of the box!… sort of minus buying the things I mentioned. I just ordered mine and should get it by tomorrow! 😁 excited!
Have a great time with your build! yeah! I think the C1 rules are WRONG... these days.. because the trucks now are so BIG that a 4.19 size tire is ridiculously small on a giant truck. C1 is supposed to be a street class, and this is certainly street legal as a build, so the tire size should not matter at all.... Giant truck, needs Big tires to look any where close to 'scale'. Love this truck, keep building! Thanks for the comment!
I can agree with you on it being one of the best put together RTR's out there. The size is bit big. What i don't like is the all one setup. I would want to run brushless axe sys, I do hope someone in my area gets one that i can try out, The just the look of it is killer.
If I didn't already have the first SCX3 RTR, I would consider it. But meh, I have five SCX trail rigs already. They keep getting better and better with each generation. My favorite rig is still the old Dingo kit. XD
Those were great yeah! I loved my old dingo. Great and light truck. Super fun, looked great too! The main difference in this SCX3 version is the NO portal axles.
Yeah buddy I love mine I got the teal one, I love the color. Been having a blast with it, I don’t care for the shocks I did get 90 mm shocks haven’t installed yet. Well worth the money to me, I had to have it because back in the 70s when I worked at Michigan Ford truck plant in Wayne Michigan are used to put these together. So had to have it and I love it appreciate your input, You know me love all your videos I’ll be watching more
Thanks for the review I have to agree with you on the size it's a big as my scx10ii Blazer. I also think they could have done a better job with the grill. The Vaterra Bronco looks so much nicer. Can't wait to see what yours looks like after you paint it.
I changed wheels are tires and all the electronics, but the biggest improvement was changing to 90mm shocks , and one thing I don’t like is the belly hangs low and gets hung up a lot.
I totally agree! Oddly I don't mind it being larger either.. it's going to be difficult to get multiple truck scale photos that look real, but having a bigger truck sure does make it go better.. and have more details.. and more room for stuff.. and.....
Appreciate the review. Don't have a 10.3 yet, and have always liked the 2-door cage SUV style trucks, so I'm thinking of getting this one. I think, like my Dingo, it'll just be fun to watch as it wheels along.
Only thing I don’t like is the torque twist, doesn’t side hill very good, I put a lot of Pre-load on the shocks, I’m gonna try thicker shock oil any thoughts on that would appreciate
I also think it would've been better, cool, and different if they'd have built it on an 11.4" (290mm) wheelbase truck. It still would've been larger overall than the RC4WD Blazer, but it would've been a lot more true to size. Cadence's Dingo is a blast, those are great size and wheelbase rigs at 11.4. I don't know why they almost never do it.
I think all the SORRCA guys say a C2 truck is best at 12 inch wheelbase.. and ... well, there's none of those. HAHAHA. Anyway, it's a big truck, best do what we can with it.
I love the early Bronco shape, but am having a real hard time trying to decide is it really a 1/8th or maybe 1/9th, it puzzles me when the manufacturer brings out several properly sized 1/10th then drop this in the mix, but maybe it is to do with looking more realistic up against their new SCX6 Jeep, I do wish they had gone for a different body new Bronco or something a little different like a Toyota Tacoma hmm we will have to hope that other companies are going to bring out some different options, but do not hold your breath I am a 5th scale gas guy and been wanting some old style early bodies for my Kraken RC Vekta5TT or a different buggy body for the VEKTA-5 and also for the LOSI 5ive-T HPI Baja yes I have two of every 5th gas plus a UDR and SBR clone Pro-Line in the past did different bodies for the HPI Baja way back and have marketed a nice 67 FORD F100 for the UDR but no other one's.
Red Cat scout II is exactly 1/8 scale but labeled 10 scale. It dwarfs my UMG. I guess 8 scale doesn't sell like 10 scale. Very Annoying. Ryft next to a Capra... Don't get me started
@@michaelavery4427 LOL yes I had to delete a lot no one would have read it too long and started to be a rant, the one that annoyed me was when the Gladiator body arrived and just dropped on a standard length or very slightly tweaked chassis length, I am a 5th gas guy so scale does not matter so much due to most not having any known body style apart from my two Krakens and my FID Dragon Hammer but being replicas of copied bodies proportions are tweaked for performance as per the Trophy Trucks and Class 1's FG are more 1/6th as per the first model the Marder but have grown a bit. But I do like my UDR closest ever and my SBR clone but 1/6th-1/7th come on guys get it together.
My dig servo lasted about 10 seconds, steering servo lasted 10 minutes, then they both died and got replaced under warranty, dig died after 1 use again and the steering servo axail replaced came with a plastic horn and the old one is glued on.
I would take the blazer over the axial 7 days a week. I'm a big bronco fan, but for some reason it doesn't trigger me. Btw...are these element knightrunner wheels on that blazer 🤔
This all in one setup and its limitations reminds me of Apple tbh tho the only thing that reaaaaally turns me off is the fast back slope of the cage. I just don’t like that look on any cage or even rollbars except on like a caterham or a very few others. If I’m gonna spend any amount of money I need it to look good
The fastback trick is actually a common rear cage trick, as it's stronger as a cage than a squared off rear cage. With that said, I'd REALLY REALLY like for axial to offer us a proper roof to go with this epic truck. I'd like to have a wagon roof on mine instead of the cage work, although I know why they didn't do the roof.... this is the first time Axial has done any interior this good, and it's good enough to show it off on purpose.
For me she looks the parts it should and that is all fine and good... But because it is 1/8.5 it will never fit in with the rest of 1/10 that are out there and look amazing side by side especially all the hard body's out there be it store bought of 3D printed. The saddest thing about this is that Axial make a lot of good looking bodies that fit into the 1/10 world grate and this one will not fit in with their own bodies from the rest of the own line and that's just sad. I love Axial and still use my old SCX 10 ll RTR but when I get my next rc from them it will not be this one. Thanks for sharing your video with us Chris. I wish they made this truck on a shorter wheelbase to make it more to scale with the rest of there own truck's.
I agree with all this. I think if it was a bit smaller wheelbase, say 11.5, and then smaller body this would have been amazing. But then the stock axles would be too wide.. again...
On the part you saying about changing everything the esc you said lost the receiver because everything is integrated in one piece on the esc this is false because you can buy a new spectrum receiver and linckin or blink to the same beautiful spectrum radio dude 👍🏻💪🏼🔥👌😎😊
just picked one up for 300 this past friday. its a an amazing truck for that price.
I am really enjoying mine so far. Def needs some tweaks to get better performance but it is so fun to just look at on the trail.
Looks great yeah! Some suspension mods will come.
What tweaks need to be down to improve performance?
@@joedbz7146 Def is top heavy. Suspension tweaks for sure need to be done. Not the top performance but still very fun.
Here we are & this RC is still relevant. The latest sale has brought it out again I’ve always looked at it & admired it but the price of 500$ was abit much. Now at 299$ I had to get one. It’s different & is very upgradable.
I agree with all your statements..I have a teal one an I can second it will last a long time...mine took a tumble down a rocky hill flipping about 30+ times with zero damage...I truly was shocked it had no damage as it was all on jagged rocks. Also drove it at the beach against ppls opinions and I took it home opened the diffs and trans mission zero sand got in the internals of the truck...axial did a nice job except on the scale size of the rig. I have had issues with the servo...opened it up and I stripped part of the gear and can tell you the servo is not waterproof regardless of if they say it is.
Good report! After all our build and runs, it's still going strong and we like driving it! Hasn't been in the water yet though.
@@GCMRacing1 I do try to stay out of the water..it says servo is waterproof but after taking it apart I don't see how it can be.
Just had ours delivered yesterday, and tore into it 20 minutes after opening the box. Pretty impressed so far.
I think it's well made yeah!
I agree, I believe it is like a 1/7th scale if you do calculations, I believe SBG calculate it. Just slap some C1 tires, a full size action figure (8”-9”) since the body is huge! Add some accessories, and you have the ultimate C1 class out of the box!… sort of minus buying the things I mentioned. I just ordered mine and should get it by tomorrow! 😁 excited!
Have a great time with your build! yeah! I think the C1 rules are WRONG... these days.. because the trucks now are so BIG that a 4.19 size tire is ridiculously small on a giant truck. C1 is supposed to be a street class, and this is certainly street legal as a build, so the tire size should not matter at all.... Giant truck, needs Big tires to look any where close to 'scale'. Love this truck, keep building! Thanks for the comment!
I also like no body posts showing, great job on mounting the body!
I can agree with you on it being one of the best put together RTR's out there. The size is bit big. What i don't like is the all one setup. I would want to run brushless axe sys, I do hope someone in my area gets one that i can try out, The just the look of it is killer.
You'd like this thing with the Axe yeah.
If I didn't already have the first SCX3 RTR, I would consider it. But meh, I have five SCX trail rigs already. They keep getting better and better with each generation. My favorite rig is still the old Dingo kit. XD
Those were great yeah! I loved my old dingo. Great and light truck. Super fun, looked great too! The main difference in this SCX3 version is the NO portal axles.
The same with their JLU wrangler same chassis but large. There nice rigs good job axial.
Yeah buddy I love mine I got the teal one, I love the color. Been having a blast with it, I don’t care for the shocks I did get 90 mm shocks haven’t installed yet. Well worth the money to me, I had to have it because back in the 70s when I worked at Michigan Ford truck plant in Wayne Michigan are used to put these together. So had to have it and I love it appreciate your input, You know me love all your videos I’ll be watching more
Cool that you've worked at the Ford plant with these! Neat stuff!
This truck is on spring sale right now. They even made me an offer on the ebay listing and I was able to pick it up for $285!!
Thanks for the review I have to agree with you on the size it's a big as my scx10ii Blazer. I also think they could have done a better job with the grill. The Vaterra Bronco looks so much nicer. Can't wait to see what yours looks like after you paint it.
Yes, that blazer was big too! But for some reason looked smaller in respect to this one. Hmmm
I changed wheels are tires and all the electronics, but the biggest improvement was changing to 90mm shocks , and one thing I don’t like is the belly hangs low and gets hung up a lot.
Yeah, long wheelbase trucks with low belly hanging. For sure.
You would still have use for the radio. It will bind to any spectrum receiver just so you know.
I love the size of the new Early Bronco. I don't mind that it doesn't scale true to my other trucks. It looks so much better.
I totally agree! Oddly I don't mind it being larger either.. it's going to be difficult to get multiple truck scale photos that look real, but having a bigger truck sure does make it go better.. and have more details.. and more room for stuff.. and.....
@@GCMRacing1 I agree. I think offset vehicle shots will help with scale photo realism.
Appreciate the review. Don't have a 10.3 yet, and have always liked the 2-door cage SUV style trucks, so I'm thinking of getting this one. I think, like my Dingo, it'll just be fun to watch as it wheels along.
Good choice!
I kept Original wheels and just added RC4WD Deep Dish Wheels.
Awesomesauce 👍 gonna have to check one out.
The scx24 receiver esc combo allows you to use as just receiver with a pass through to an external esc. Maybe this one does too?
A great and honest review Chris!
Pretty cool truck! I had my doubts about the value to the higher price before getting it in my hands, but I think it's worth it.
I am really looking at getting this , o have been eyeing it for a while now !
Only thing I don’t like is the torque twist, doesn’t side hill very good, I put a lot of Pre-load on the shocks, I’m gonna try thicker shock oil any thoughts on that would appreciate
I think I'll end up with some suspension mods, yeah.
Truck looks great, thanks for sharing you though on it.
Thanks for watching!
I also think it would've been better, cool, and different if they'd have built it on an 11.4" (290mm) wheelbase truck. It still would've been larger overall than the RC4WD Blazer, but it would've been a lot more true to size. Cadence's Dingo is a blast, those are great size and wheelbase rigs at 11.4. I don't know why they almost never do it.
I think all the SORRCA guys say a C2 truck is best at 12 inch wheelbase.. and ... well, there's none of those. HAHAHA. Anyway, it's a big truck, best do what we can with it.
Yes 🙌 honestly. We’ll done vid
Thanks sir!
Love your take on the Bronco.. will Horizon ever make a true 10th scale?
... well... do we actually WANT true 10th scale? That's really really small trucks....
I love the early Bronco shape, but am having a real hard time trying to decide is it really a 1/8th or maybe 1/9th, it puzzles me when the manufacturer brings out several properly sized 1/10th then drop this in the mix, but maybe it is to do with looking more realistic up against their new SCX6 Jeep, I do wish they had gone for a different body new Bronco or something a little different like a Toyota Tacoma hmm we will have to hope that other companies are going to bring out some different options, but do not hold your breath I am a 5th scale gas guy and been wanting some old style early bodies for my Kraken RC Vekta5TT or a different buggy body for the VEKTA-5 and also for the LOSI 5ive-T HPI Baja yes I have two of every 5th gas plus a UDR and SBR clone Pro-Line in the past did different bodies for the HPI Baja way back and have marketed a nice 67 FORD F100 for the UDR but no other one's.
Red Cat scout II is exactly 1/8 scale but labeled 10 scale. It dwarfs my UMG. I guess 8 scale doesn't sell like 10 scale. Very Annoying. Ryft next to a Capra... Don't get me started
@@michaelavery4427 LOL yes I had to delete a lot no one would have read it too long and started to be a rant, the one that annoyed me was when the Gladiator body arrived and just dropped on a standard length or very slightly tweaked chassis length, I am a 5th gas guy so scale does not matter so much due to most not having any known body style apart from my two Krakens and my FID Dragon Hammer but being replicas of copied bodies proportions are tweaked for performance as per the Trophy Trucks and Class 1's FG are more 1/6th as per the first model the Marder but have grown a bit. But I do like my UDR closest ever and my SBR clone but 1/6th-1/7th come on guys get it together.
1969 ford bronco wheelbase 92inches. 92÷12.3=7.47
My dig servo lasted about 10 seconds, steering servo lasted 10 minutes, then they both died and got replaced under warranty, dig died after 1 use again and the steering servo axail replaced came with a plastic horn and the old one is glued on.
I would take the blazer over the axial 7 days a week. I'm a big bronco fan, but for some reason it doesn't trigger me. Btw...are these element knightrunner wheels on that blazer 🤔
Well, they sure are the KnightRunner wheels and tires! Love those. Great looking for this size of truck body.
I don't like that all in one system 🥺. Thanks for the great info 🏁👍🏁😃.
This all in one setup and its limitations reminds me of Apple tbh tho the only thing that reaaaaally turns me off is the fast back slope of the cage. I just don’t like that look on any cage or even rollbars except on like a caterham or a very few others. If I’m gonna spend any amount of money I need it to look good
The fastback trick is actually a common rear cage trick, as it's stronger as a cage than a squared off rear cage. With that said, I'd REALLY REALLY like for axial to offer us a proper roof to go with this epic truck. I'd like to have a wagon roof on mine instead of the cage work, although I know why they didn't do the roof.... this is the first time Axial has done any interior this good, and it's good enough to show it off on purpose.
For me she looks the parts it should and that is all fine and good... But because it is 1/8.5 it will never fit in with the rest of 1/10 that are out there and look amazing side by side especially all the hard body's out there be it store bought of 3D printed. The saddest thing about this is that Axial make a lot of good looking bodies that fit into the 1/10 world grate and this one will not fit in with their own bodies from the rest of the own line and that's just sad. I love Axial and still use my old SCX 10 ll RTR but when I get my next rc from them it will not be this one. Thanks for sharing your video with us Chris. I wish they made this truck on a shorter wheelbase to make it more to scale with the rest of there own truck's.
I agree with all this. I think if it was a bit smaller wheelbase, say 11.5, and then smaller body this would have been amazing. But then the stock axles would be too wide.. again...
The tamiya 1 10th bronco is correct in size .
1969 bronco wheelbase 92 inches. 92÷12.3=7.47 scale
On sale now at Horizon for $299.
Great video Chris! Definitely looks like they stepped it up a level with the detail.
It's a few steps up for sure. Really well done.
Very nice unit where do I find the price and availability?
Link in the description
I think mudslingers would look nice on that
I like it.....but I like the Vaterra Bronco better
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what country make this Axial SCX3 Bronco
On the part you saying about changing everything the esc you said lost the receiver because everything is integrated in one piece on the esc this is false because you can buy a new spectrum receiver and linckin or blink to the same beautiful spectrum radio dude 👍🏻💪🏼🔥👌😎😊
You can still using same factory radio only need to buy a new spectrum receiver 👍🏻
So. No more going through water with one eye closed. =)
Scx3?? Sounds huge lol
I seriously thought GCM had the scoop on an even bigger rc than the scx6 lolol
ha! No, it's the 3rd SCX version. Man can you imagine a 40 lb SCX truck? WOW. Put the kids in it. hahaha
Show de bola
Driver 6 feet tall 72 inches. 72 ÷7.5 scale= 9.6 inch tall driver. Easy math.
Traxxas Traxxas Power Wagon
This truck is 7.5 scale
Sure is!
Also: Bronchial
To much torque twist, not worth the price point at all, also, can we get something besides a Bronco or jeep? Like really
I believe Rovers, Broncos, Jeeps, and Blazers are the most known and popular Offroaders around, so that's what they keep giving to us.. yeah...
This truck is no where near 1/10 scale.
That's not big.......in walks a scx6.....now that's big.....
So true!
Just seeing the thumbnail, no! It’s not worth the $600 price tag’
For $299 yes, for $499 no