Hey guys! I’m Cristian, the new guy around here and this is my first write up of many more to come. 

First of all, I have to say this has got to be one of the coolest jobs on planet earth.  How many of you out there can say that you make a living while enjoying your hobby?  I must admit, when Rob first approached me I was a little skeptical about taking the position because it seemed too good to be true.  So after a great deal of thought (all of 5 minutes) I decided to come on board. 

I’m a hobbyist at heart and have been racing and playing with R/C cars of various scales for 17 years. My dad was also an avid racer so he got me into R/C at the age of eight. A few years back, a small group of my old racing buddies bought some mini Z’s and a small RCP track and started racing.  At first I didn't take the 1:28th cars seriously, I kept thinking they were just toys, which the early ones really were. Then I saw one of the newer generation Z’s.  It was an MR02 RM with a disk damper system on it, all I could say was WOW, I need to try one of those!”.  One pull of the trigger and I was hooked and bought one the very next day.  A year and a half later,  several  thousand dollars worth of cars and hop-ups and a PN World Cup title later, I find myself here, at AtomicMods.com.

Now to the future- I’ve come here and brought my knowledge about mini Z’s and the hobby in general to help make AtomicMods.com into an even better place to fix your R/C addiction.

We've come a long way baby!

Rob's Personal Workshop

Looking back to the days when we all worked out of Rob's personal workshop always make us grin. You see it was a tiny part of the garage that Rob converted into a workshop designed for one skinny person; himself. There was not enough room for someone to walk behind you without shoving your knees into the bench, which held boards, saw blades, tools and all sorts of other spiky things that were not knee friendly at all.

1208 N Post Oak Workshop Today

The current workshop is located at 1208 N Post Oak, in Houston, Texas and is much larger and better organized since it was designed from the start for our purposes. Rob installed all the latest test equipment, tools and even a fume extraction system. We have expanded the shop once already since moving it to 1208 N Post Oak. The first expansion was to take over half of Rob's office, which he was not too happy about since he now has a broom closet sized office. We are now preparing to take over Chris the IT guys office since he is right next to the shop. Chris doesn't need much room anyway, we plan to put him in a file cabinet with a laptop and toss in the occasional pizza. Anyway, if you haven't seen the expanded shop, visit the web cam and take a look around.

Team AtomicMods Hits the Road!

Cristian and Rob will be at the Columbus North High School in Columbus, Indiana for the AtomicMods Race for Education 2006. There will be several classes of  Mini-Z as well as XMOD racing and even drag racing with a true drag timing system! Check out the videos of last years racing here. We are also setting up VRC racing simulators so you can try your hand at virtual racing and there is even a live band. The event is open to the public and is sure to be big fun, so if you are going to be in the area, be sure to drop in and see us. And the icing on the cake is that Cristian will be putting on some driving workshops, so don't miss this chance to learn from a world class driver.

Inside Scoop on the Mini-Z Auto Scale Body Sets

Our approach is this, we buy every single Auto Scale body that Kyosho has available. So if it is currently available, we will have it in stock and ready to ship.

Half Price XMOD Gen1 Billet Aluminum Front AWD Axles