If you're in the RC building world, you've probably devised your own method to track your awesome builds. I started off old school with pen and paper, but then I couldn't read my gibberish and often lost my notes. I moved to Google Sheets, but it didn't have the easy ability to attach pictures of build progress.
I built rcbldr.com because I have around 20 SCX24 builds and I was losing track. One place for the wishlist, the orders, the installed list, the photos, the running cost, and a clean public link I can send to a friend. Here's a quick walk through.
What the site does
- A catalog of 1,200+ SCX24 compatible parts across 15+ vendors and 7 categories.
- Builds with parts, statuses, photos, and a running cost total.
- A saved-parts list to bookmark things before you commit them to a build.
- A public link per build that shows a proper preview when shared.
- A community page listing every public build.
- A dashboard tying it all together.
Sign up and create a build
Sign up with email or with Google, Discord, or Reddit. Pick a username. You land on the dashboard.
Click Create a build. You only need two things: a title and a base model (a dropdown covering every Axial SCX24 release plus a few community options like the C-Bolt and custom chassis). Notes and the public/private toggle are optional. Submit and you land on the build page with an empty parts table and photo grid.
Don't agonize over the title. I have builds that started as “Trail JLU” and ended up as full comp rigs three months later, with a new name like “Green Goblin.”
The catalog
The catalog is a sortable table: thumbnail, name, brand, category, price. Sort by any column. Filter by category, vendor, or price. Search hits both part name and vendor.
Every row has a bookmark icon. Outline means not saved; filled sky-blue means saved. Bookmarks live on the saved parts page. Click any row to open the part detail page, which lists compatibility, buy links, and an Add to build dropdown that drops the part into any of your builds as a wishlist item.
Wishlist, ordered, installed
Every part on a build is in one of three states, set with the dropdown in the parts table:
- Wish list (gray): you want it, you haven't bought it.
- Ordered (amber): on the way.
- Installed (green): physically on the truck.
Your build's progress bar fills up as you move parts to installed. A build with 4 of 12 parts installed shows 33%.
Cost
Every part has a price paid field. The catalog price prefills, but overwrite it with what you actually spent. After discount codes, used parts deals, shipping, and tax the real number is usually 10 to 15% off. The build's total cost adds up automatically.
This is the single most important habit on the site. Catalog price has me at “sensible.” Price paid has me at “OK, no more parts this month.”
Photos
Drag photos onto the photo grid, or click Upload. Up to 20 per build, 10 MB each. Hover any photo to Set cover or delete. The cover photo is what shows on your dashboard, on the community feed, and on every shared link to your build. Pick a good one.
Saved parts
The saved parts page is your general wishlist, bookmarks not tied to any specific build. Each row has two actions: Add to build (moves it into a build you pick) and Remove.
I use this more than almost anything else on the site. When I'm scoping a new direction I'll bookmark 30 to 40 parts over a week, then push the survivors into the actual build. It's the SCX24 equivalent of a sketchbook.
Going public
Flip the public toggle on the build's edit page and three things happen:
- The build appears on the community page.
- It becomes reachable at a clean public link anyone can visit.
- That link shows a proper preview (with your cover photo) when pasted anywhere.
Private builds stay invisible. There's a Share button inside each public build that copies the link to your clipboard.
The dashboard
The dashboard is the post-login home. Four stat cards across the top (active builds, parts tracked, total invested, saved parts), then a grid of your build cards below. Each card shows the cover photo, title, base model, progress bar, part count, cost, and a status badge: Active, In progress, Complete, or Shelved.
What's coming
One-click sharing your build to RC subreddits, build comments, a cost breakdown chart, and a “builds using this part” list on every part page. Further out: a compatibility checker, build cloning, and a side by side part comparison tool.
No promised dates. The way to influence the order is to actually use the site and tell me what's in your way.
Where to go next
If you don't have an account yet, sign up and create your first build. It takes about ninety seconds. If you already have one, the highest leverage next read is the first upgrades guide, which tells you what to put on your wishlist before you start adding parts at random.