Welcome back, one and all! We here at 1i-rc hope that you all had a great Mother’s Day weekend holiday and got to celebrate your Mom if she is still with you or celebrate her memory if she has passed on. My Mom has been my #1 fan throughout my motorsports career and continues to push me to be my best to this day, hence why we were a little light on content last week. I felt spending the weekend with her celebrating the holiday was a bigger priority; plus last week was a slow news week in the industry so it worked out! This week we make up for lost time with new releases from JConcepts, Arrma, Team Associated, Pro-Line Racing, RPM and Rossing Designs. Let’s dive in and see what’s new this week!
JCONCEPTS
Mini racers looking for a performance advantage that also aids in the aesthetics department, look no further than the new JConcepts P2 Performance Body for the Arrma Typhon GROM. This body features much of the same design language as the larger P2 series of bodies, only shrunk down to the GROM’s scale and sized perfectly for the little Typhon. Designed to work with the stock clipless body mounts this body stands out among a sea of RTR printed bodies with its unique Punisher style cab treatment that blends smoothly into a center fin for stability and finally into wide haunches that direct air evenly over the rear wing for optimized airflow. This pre-cut body includes precision cut window masks. a detailed decal sheet and overspray film for a painless finishing process.
Item #0696 JConcepts P2 Performance Body For The Arrma Typhon GROM https://blog.jconcepts.net/2026/05/jconcepts-new-release-arrma-typhon-grom-p2-performance-body/
TEAM ASSOCIATED
Announced just in time to pique interest before the Team Associated 1/28 Internationals held in conjunction with the Vintage Off-Road Championships in Las Vegas, the new TC28 is loaded for bear and ready to take on the world’s best micro racers. Building off of a steel chassis plate for an extremely low CoG and near-zero flex the TC28 incorporates a mid-motor layout with equal length drive belts front and rear feeding power through sealed gear differentials and finally sending the power to the wheels via constant velocity driveshafts. The four wheel independent suspension is damped by silicone grease lubricated shocks while anti-roll bars keep the chassis flat while cornering. A RadBody Mako X2 body is included in the package, as are white wheels with optional front wheel flanges to adjust steering feel. This car is compatible with the full line of Reedy micro electronics and is available now for pre-order with an expected ship date of early June 2026.
Item #20169 Team Associated TC28 Team Kit https://60years.associatedelectrics.com/tc28-team-kit/?searchid=0&search_query=tc28
ARRMA
Following on the heels of their recent hit, the Quake 223S, Arrma is giving the SUV-style Gorgon the same 223S treatment as well as offering the truck in three new color ways for a fresh new look. Inside the Gorgon lies a Spektrum 2-in-1 ESC/RX combo rated at 45a that feeds power to the 3660 4000kv Spektrum motor. A 40mm fan helps to keep the motor cool and blows downward onto the motor through a channel molded into the chassis. The motor is fitted with a circlip to keep the pinion from moving on the motor shaft and that pinion meshes with a plastic 48p spur connected to an adjustable slipper clutch and an aluminum top shaft; a huge upgrade from the original solid spur and plastic top shaft first seen on the Voltage line that this chassis is based on. A gear differential sends power to the wheels via plastic slider shafts and is easily accessible via a separate plate beneath the chassis. Steering duties are handled by a Spektrum S81 brass gear servo that works in conjunction with the Dynamic Stability Control (DSC) to keep the truck pointed in the right direction. Oil filled dampers cushion the ride and fixed camber links ensure all four wheels point in the correct direction no matter how hard you bash the truck. Arrma retains the truck’s scale looks with a hidden body mount system that is retained by two serious looking pins while scale bumpers are found front and rear, protecting the chassis from all angles. A wheelie bar peeks out under the rear bumper ensuring the truck doesn’t flip backward on heavy launches; this power system has the torque to do it! Rounding out the package are wheels and tires first seen on the Quake, however this time in a new color. The modified chevron tread tires are molded in a medium compound and supported by foam inserts and the sidewall lettering looks very scale, especially when compared to the BKT 1:1 tires used in modern day monster trucking. Color options now include the pink shown below (my choice if I could afford one), a purple to blue fade that looks amazing in direct sunlight and a more traditional red and black motif; each of which have a great reference to Samuel L. Jackson’s character from “Snakes On A Plane” right on the door; a great little detail!
Item #ARA3530T3 Gorgon 223S RTR, Pink https://www.arrma-rc.com/en/product/1-10-gorgon-223s-2wd-rtr-brushless-monster-truck/ARA3530.html
PRO-LINE RACING
Coming soon from Pro-Line Racing is the new Pulse pre-cut short course body for the Slash 2wd and Slash 4×4 with the new clipless body mount system. While sitting lower for improved cornering thanks to a lower center of gravity this body allows the stock clipless mount system to bolt right in. Not only is the body pre-trimmed for added convenience but the additional vent holes that reduce parachuting are also cut from the factory; a huge bonue (I can never get these to look good and not like an elderly beaver cut them out with his last remaining tooth). This body has been reinforced in high-stress areas for added durability, ensuring that the truck looks as good at the end of the day as it did at the beginning.
Item #PRO370700 Pulse SC Body For Clipless Traxxas Slash 2wd and Slash 4×4 https://www.horizonhobby.com/product/pre-cut-pulse-clear-body-traxxas-slash-clipless—other-sct/PRO370700.html
RPM
RPM has long been known for solving problems that manufacturers miss when designing vehicles; OEM’s usually don’t take things like driving an RC off of a parking garage or launching off of a skate park half pipe at 60mph when designing their vehicles but RPM seems to take these extreme use cases into consideration when creating their parts! If you want to make your Traxxas MAXX as durable as possible give this new Heavy Duty Front Skid Plate from RPM a look. While the stock skid plate leaves the mounting screws vulnerable to damage when landing due to abrasion the RPM skid protects this hardware thanks to a redesign of the skid ribs, which have been increased to three, allowing the ribs to take the impact instead of the screws. Paired with RPM’s already available rear skid plate (#72222) for the ultimate in underbody protection for you MAXX. These skids are molded in RPM’s famous blend of engineering grade nylons right here in the USA and carry a limited lifetime warranty.
Item #72142 RPM Heavy Duty Front Skid Plate, Traxxas MAXX https://rpmrcproducts.com/rpm-products-pages/chassis-components/skid-plates/front-skid-plate-for-the-traxxas-maxx/
ROSSING DESIGNS
Rounding out this week’s new releases is a Waterfall Fan Mount for the Team Associated “7” series of vehicles (the B7, B7.1, D versions of both, T7 and SC7), moving the fan from the rear of the chassis where is effectively cools the slipper clutch (all three of my “7” vehicles doe this) and moves it in front of the motor where the waterfall attaches to the chassis. This not only directs more air over the motor since the fan is directly in line with the motor instead of at an angle but also makes assembly easier as it is not in such a cramped location. Each mount is sold separately and is printed in a proprietary durable material right here in the USA. Rossing claims this mount will lower motor temps by 20 degrees due to the increased airflow and claims reduced fade during the run as well.
Team Associated 7 Series Waterfall Fan Mount https://drcproshop.com/team-associated-7-series-waterfall-fan-mount/
SHOP UPDATES
This past week saw my 40th lap around the sun begin and I thought back to my beginnings in the hobby. I have the luxury of looking to my left in my office and seeing my first hobby-grade RC hanging on the wall; a reminder of where it all began. I still have my first issue of RC Car Action magazine from November 1996, albeit missing most of its cover after being read countless times over the years. These relics really keep me motivated to continue to find the passion that I felt for the hobby back then, the wonder and amazement of walking into a hobby shop/track for the first time. I can still smell the ozite wafting in from upstairs of Left Turn Hobbies in Glen White, WV, a shop that sat above the post office and had an indoor carpet track for the (then) hot trend of touring cars and pan cars, plus an outdoor off-road track with a banked oval on its exterior. All of the old brand banners and adverts cut out of magazines glued to the walls downstairs in the pit spaces, the smell of tire sauce that was embedded into the carpet, its a multi-sensoral experience that has stayed with me for 30 years. My Traxxas Rustler turns the big 30 this year and to celebrate I will be pulling it down off the wall and giving it a good clean to share it with all of you. I did a bit of a resto-mod on it ten years ago where I gutted a Traxxas TQ 27mHz receiver case and filled it with a de-cased Flysky 2.4gHz receiver to make the truck a little more modern while also keeping the old-school look, while at the same time de-casing an ESC and placing it under the mechanical speed control where the servo would have originally gone. This gave me the benefits of a modern ESC with the look of the original MSC that my truck came with. Now that the truck is no longer a driver I’d like to restore it to 100% stock status. I plan to replace the receiver with the original TQ 2-channel unit (I still have it in a box), a functioning mechanical speed control with an original #2018 plastic gear servo, the larger white resistors and their blue cage mounted to the transmission housing, the whole nine yards. I could never locate an original Rustler body (the square one from before the XL-5 generation) nor an original decal sheet so I will need to begin looking for both again. If anyone out there has any leads or knows where either of these can be found please drop a comment below and let me know; your help is greatly appreciated.
Thank you one and all for your continued support of the site. Having loyal readers like you that come back week after week definitely keeps me going, and for that, I am extremely grateful. Until next time, be good to yourself, be good to others, be good to your RC.