V-Dezign has released there latest car as an update kit for cars like AE L3, L4 and other US based T-bar. This car has already dominated the British Nationals in the hands of Andy Griffiths winning both 19t and Modified classes

The CR ’07 update kit will include the following parts:

1. Hi-Quality Graphite Chassis
2. Light weight Motor pod with super low CG
3. Body post plates
4. Shock plate/upper motor pod plate
5. Extra tweak plate
6. Rear stiffener for motor pod
7. Motor pod lower plate
8. Smooth Tube dampeners

The price for the kit is 140 € and should be available in May.

Source: V-Dezign

Finding the right setup for 12th scale you don't need many tools but sometimes there are certain tools that just make life easy. Now Unity Tool Inc. has a tweak board that really can make life easy. You can do tweak settings but it has camber, caster, and toe in  blocks. These can be placed on the tweak board to set camber, caster and toe in/out on the car.

This the only tweak board that has these options for 12th scale. This tweak board can also be used in other cars like TC 10th scale.

This teak board can be ordered directly from Unity Tool Inc and instruction page .

Source: RedRC and Unity Tool Inc.

Read more to see the pictures of this nice complete tweak board.

(Links have been updated.)

Andy Moore is the new 1/12th Scale Eurpean Champion.

Final results:
1. Moore Andy (GB) 2pts - (1:1, 2:1 [3:10]) - Hot Bodies Prototype
2. Fischer Marc (DE) 3pts - (3:1, 1:2 [2:2]) - Corally SP12 X US Spec
3. Hagberg Alexander (SE) 5pts - (3:2, 1:3 [2:3]) - Corally SP12X
4. Griffiths Andy (GB) 7pts - (3:3, 1:4 [2:4]) - V-Dezign Carpet Ripper ´07
5. Mobers Markus (DE) 10pts - (3:4, 2:6 [1:6]) - CRC Carpet Knife GenX
6. Ahoniemi Simo (FI) 10pts - (3:5, 2:5 [1:10]) - Corally SP12X
7. Hönigl Hubert (AT) 14pts - (1:5, 3:9 [2:10]) - CRC Carpet Knife GenX
8. Ahoniemi Sakke (FI) 14pts - (3:6, 2:8 [1:9]) - Corally 12X
9. Andersson Jonas (SE) 14pts - (3:7, 2:7 [1:8]) - Associated RC12L4
10. Yli Vesa (FI) 15pts - (1:7, 3:8 [2:9]) - V-Dezign Carpet Ripper ‘07

Corally had 4 cars in the finals which is a big imporovements as to last year.

Source: redrc.net

Servos are always a big question when starting with scale. The servos used in 12th scale are normally mini servos with a high speed motor and torque is not a problem for 12th scale. Below you will find a list of the most used servos in 12th scale.

I have updated the servo from KO-PROPO

SpeedMerchant take a clean sweep at 2007 ROAR On-Road Nats winning all 3 classes:

Donny Lia took the 1/12th Stock National Title, Ray Darroch grabbed the 1/12th 19-Turn title, and Mike Dumas won the Modified title!

Congratulations to SpeedMerchant for the clean sweep.

Source from SpeedMerchant

BMI RACING has created a new 12th scale car using a different method. The car does not use the standard t-bar to connect the motor pod to the chassis but uses two l-bar that looks a lot like a link based car. The l-bar are placed where you normally would see in a link car the links.

Using this method the batteries are now placed as a pack and not in saddle pack as the T-bar is not present any more. The car has had good results at the recent Snowbirds 2007. The car will released as a kit.

More Information can be found on rctech forum or visiting BMI Racing web site.

Here is picture of the production release of the car.