I live in a small Norfolk village which has all the usual amenities. There is a village website with complete information about everything - Opening times of shop, post office, pub etc, how to book the village hall and so on. It contains links to all the relevant businesses and local clubs.

We also, needless to say, have a village Facebook group which seems entirely populated by idiots. Apart from the endless complaints about dog poo you can guarantee that someone will ask every single day - "when does the shop shut, is the Post Office open on Saturday, how do I book the village hall?" etc. etc. None of these people seem to know about Google and they think that Facebook is some kind of oracle. Even stranger is the fact that normally sensible people answer these cretins!

I thought I had seen it all but.......................
we also have a mainline railway station. It was shut during the Beeching era but eventually resurrected after a local campaign nearly 50 years ago. On May 5th there will be a small celebration about this as you can see from the following screenshot.

Please read the comment. Sometimes I wonder how the human race is still surviving!

just a query 

bought this life-like chevy model kit the other day 

   

upon opening , the model looks quite small 
are life-like models truly 1/32 scale ?
or was this car originally smaller than i thought ?
the kit itself looks nice and is still sealed , so no complaints regarding the kit , its just the scale ?

   

does anyone know or are familiar with these kits ?

thanks in advance
Kev

Requires Scorpius Dongle, 12V Supply and Race Coordinator Software.

Optional is a colour LCD Light Gantry. Upload any image for start finish lighting or the default ones.

Use 2 for 4 lanes or 3 or 6 lanes etc.

No data cables. Easy quick install. No soldering required. All LEDs and Photo Sensors are plug and play.


Available late 2025. $99.00AUD each plus tax
Dongle $99.00AUD plus tax.

   

Latest MPD design incorporates 2 Infrared sensor channels, 2 photo sensor channels, 2 OLED 12C screen drivers.


   

Scorpius dongle.

A couple of weeks ago I recorded the computer screen for Targa Florio Rally settings which we tested on the last Saturday Scalextric Club Isle of Man meeting.

I've made a short video showing the important settings...

Happy Easter to everyone!

Ken

Race Coordinator Arduino mega pins for 4 lane track 
I am after the pin numbers for external start lights, lead led, and fuel led 
I have pins 4,5,6,7 for lap count

 Good Morning,

   

well its time to think about registration for the next Proxy series.

The deadline for Registration/Payment is the 1st July 2025

The cars must have been received by me by the 29th August 2025

Proposed start of the proxy 1st Round is 1st September.

Final Technical Rules

I have now added Slimline 25k motors to the list. And the wording on use of ballast (weight) has been revised.

REGISTRATION FORM
https://forms.gle/LmoQLf1qfvGfBMjp6

Entry Fee
£15 for first car, then £5 each for any additional cars (max 3)
Payment to my Paypal Acccount (family & friends)
graham.gaedwards@gmail.com

List of confirmed entrants
RoadRunners (3)
BAracer (3)
Makem (3)
Bangers Racing (3)
Demon Tweeks (2)
Brumos (2)
ALS (2)
BatManx (2)
ModSports (2)






Good luck with your builds 

   

The second round of our 2025 WHO GT Championship was also our Easter holiday team race. That tradition goes back to 2014 and has featured Micro Scalextric, AFX LMP and now digital team races. In addition to the race winners medals, there were five Easter eggs up for grabs too.

   

We finally got to race on the track Simon had designed for the January Nascar & Legends night - and it looked fabulous on paper and even better set up at the Barn...

   

Fast and technical, practice suggested this was a track to favour the inline cars. There was plenty of testing going on and important car choices made. Slimline decided against running the Ford GTE this time and ran with the Dadson Bentley Continental - the team will run four different cars over the season. Ryan was back at the helm of Smooth Ops and decided to go with his pink and silver Mercedes rather than Simon's Bentley. For MOZZIE, Matthew was deputising for Dean and they had an Aston Martin Vantage GT3. The other three teams would race the same machinery from Round One. And - as far as possible - we kept the driver line-ups from last time...

   

The official action began at 7pm with the 2-minute Super-Pole session. The team members taking part would start the race. As always, it was a frantic session, with some drivers nailing a great lap and others not. In the end, these were the times...

   
 
A fine return for Ryan and suggested the Mercedes has perked up since last season. With Ollie just eighteen hundredths of a second behind, we were all looking forward to a exciting opening stint to the race...

   

Race Control rolled the weather dice and we'd set the 575 lap race up with three random weather elements - RCS64 would decide what those were...

hi all
is there a forum for the slot car club at Bootle?
I was a member of the Liverpool Model car club wayback and am wondering if any remnants of the club exist ?