Friend leaves Paintball for RC cars

[Andrewliu6294]

I'd let the guy do what he wants. He may find that he likes RC more than paintball, or he may try to get back into paintball. Whatever he does, its his choice.

[FiXeL]

Yeah they do. I had about 8 RC cars with a sh*tload of stuff to boot. Sold most of it to get into paintball.... Sell one car to get a basic setup, sell more to pay for other stuff.... Well interests change, but paintball is the one that seems to last longer than my other hobbies.

[Shingo]

[FiXeL]

I should never have sold my savage... What a nice truck that was.... And what a moneypit... :spit_take

[punkncat]

Most players last less than a year. Nothing uncommon about it. I have been playing for a good while and have seen lots of people come and go, come back...leave again. Its a funny cycle.

A group of my oldest paintball friends plays maybe four games a year or so in our buddies back yard. A field that has been manicured and improved upon for well better than 10 years. Best place in the world to play for me, hands down. If it weren't for that place being available just to go get a good, honest game on to "recharge" my batteries and restore my faith in the sport and people, I would have quit long ago.

[AirAssault]

I have done both, and hear this, AT THE SAME TIME!! I know it sounds crazy but a person can play ball and drive RC at the same time. Im not really hard core and just bash more than organized racing but my T-maxx when I had it was up in the 1k dollar range with all the stuff I did to it. I'm even thinking taking up a third hoby, needle point! That can get crazy expensive too, those needles run like 80 cents. :rofl:

RC is fun, PB is fun, needle point

[Tig]

Its funny how people lose interest.
When I was younger I was heavy into RC before paintball (mom wouldnt let me have a gun in the house, yes even a paintball gun), so I got into RC. I was into it for years, then I lost interest for some reason. 5 or 6 years later I got into paintball, same thing. I played every weekend and sometimes during the week. I had over a 1K into my Mag w/ all the gear. My friends werent into it anymore they lost interest, I didnt want to play with strangers back then, so I put it on the shelf.

Now, I'm still an RC freak and after a long hyatus in paintball I'm slowly but sure making my way back in the scene or should I say fast and furiously making my way back in the scene.
Now I have 4 Mags . My Classic, Xvlv Mini, Mag Pistol and a Vert Hyper Micro :rofl: gatta love it.

Heres my Baja 5B and FG Leopard with my buddies FH Buggy.


Heres my 1/4 scale Stadium Truck


This is what it looks like now, I'm in the process of rebuilding/upgrading the suspension and dropping in a new motor.

Here another ongoing project. Its a WCM 1/4 scale GN

[punkncat]

RC cars amaze me...I went to a local track located right next to a state roan. Buddy had a car that he could playin traffic with.....about 15K worth of upgrade to it.......rather expensive, but fun if you hae a polae to race it.

[magmonkey]

my savage is ......well bent bad right now
picco force .27 full throttle and failed to make it around a basketball hoop.... makes me a sad panda

[FiXeL]

That sucks... been there tho, going head on with a curbstone @ 40mph because of a faulty battery...

Well, maybe these pics might cheer you up:







XL chassis
Picco .26 engine
All heavy duty parts
Etc, etc.

Ironicly i sold this one to get my first paintball gear.... Never should have done it, but money doesnt grow on trees.

[Muzikman]

I have played for years. I "quit" after a tournament last year, then got back in the beginning of this year. Right now I would rather go play baseball than paintball and have not walked onto a field in over a month. Its easy to get sick of paintball, especially when playing in todays game.

^^^^^I hear that!^^^^^

Funny thing, I gave up R/C Cars to start playing paintball. That was back in 92. I have amost as much R/C stuff still as I do paintball stuff.

I quit R/C cars because it got too expensive to be competitive. Unlike paintball to some extent, just being a good driver is not enough. I use to race nationally and had sponsors and it was just too damn expensive. But just like paintball, maybe if I cut back a little it would have been cheaper. I raced in just about every class, and I raced every weekend both Saturday and Sunday and I spent Friday night getting the cars ready.

I have well over 100 trophies, quite a few plaques and countless number of ribbons. It was a lot of fun though.

[MajicPI19]

I have seen so many people go through the same cycles with hobbies... head first into one for a year or so, then sell everything and start all over to get into a something different. I've done it myself. Unfortunately not everyone can afford the high cost of multiple hobbies, especially in todays "I want it all and I want it now" society.

I am like most of you, I'm sure. And all of my hobbies seem to be very expensive. I am a drummer (Well over 2k in a drum kit), I play many sports; Baseball (Pretty inexpensive, but my bat ran me 3 bills), Basketball (Costs me next to nothing) Golf (don't even ask) Hockey (Don't even ask) and of course paintball (I don't add it all up... then I don't have to tell my wife how much I have spent). Now my kids are getting old enough to join in (Yes, I am an old fart... but not that old). So rather than sell of my old stuff to pay for new stuff, I slowly accumulate gear and then my kids have gear too use too and we play together. This keeps the wife happy, and we all know how important that is!!!

So rather than try to convince someone (your friend) to play, just try to convince him not to sell off his gear. You never get back what you paid for it and eventually, and if he's like most of us, he'll be back!!!

At first I, too, would sell off everything from one hobby to start a new hobby, but then I realized something... "He who dies with the most toys WINS!!!"

[Muzikman]

"He who dies with the most toys WINS!!!"

I have lived by that motto for many many years (as a matter of fact, it was a sticker on one of my R/C car cases).

I think I have a healthy lead over most people too.