HobbyKing has just announced their new ‘affiliate’ program, which rewards you for sharing HobbyKing products with your mate.

Before I leapt into the hobby world as a fully fledged hobbyist, there were so many things I wish someone told me before I entered the community.

An unbalanced fan sounds terrible and yet many modellers don’t realise just how easy it is to get a fan to sound like a turbine.

As we know all know, the hobby community is constantly evolving and each day a new trend infiltrates the hobby.

Today I received the HKM-390 On Road Bike from HobbyKing. As you know by now, the excitement you feel when you receive a package from HobbyKing feels as exciting as seeing on the presents under the tree on Christmas morning.

The Turnigy brand is renowned for its strength, power and its serious performance. It’s the go-to battery of choice for many hobbyists, myself included.

The most simple method I have found to balance a brushless motor is using an application on my mobile phone.

You’re not going to get very far in this hobby without a good LIPO charger but there are so many to choose from. So what do I need?

There are hundreds of chargers on the market but how do we sort the wheat from the chaff? Chargers are chargers are chargers right? Wrong.

We take the humble speed controller for granted but it hasn’t always been this easy.

UK-based model accessories company, Solarfilm, has recently announced that as of 12th February 2018 it will no longer sell to wholesalers and it will cease products of all the brand's products.