This was the third annual Slot Rally GB July trip to the West Sussex seaside - and a refreshing coastal breeze was most welcome for those travelling from the fiery inferno of the latest UK heatwave. Unfortunately, the Abergavenny crew were unable to attend, so running the day fell to the host club. With 30+ attendees expected, it was going to be a busy Friday and Saturday...

   

Friday saw six stages built at the Barn with Snow Blind - a guest track from St Albans - due to arrive first thing Saturday. The wow factor for this year's event was definitely Jeremy's sprucing-up of Friston Forest...

   

As he says, Jeremy could always 'see' the trees as he was driving the stage - now everyone can.

Jupp's Farm ran to its 2026 configuration, with more off-road pieces and less tarmac, plus the addition of a farm pond...

   

The Roundstone stage was built for the first time...

   

It featured two of the custom rally loops from the 2021 WHO Rally Sprint proxy - Oli's donut loop and Simon's teardrop. All slippy Scalextric Sport track, making it much more of a challenge than it looks at first glance.

In addition, we had Johnny's Workshop (3D printed + braid), the Ford Ice Rink (routed foamboard + copper tape) and the Burpham & Wepham stage (Ninco + loops) as it was originally intended with lots of radius 1s. We'll see more of those in action soon...

Hello everybody,
Can anyone recommend a current UK supplier for water-slide decal sheets? Looking for someone who has recently bought such and had good experience with creating decals, specifically regarding the thickness of the decals and ease of separation from the backing sheet. 

Leo

Trawling for classic sports cars and came across this shell  on the one of the down load sites and based on the label coughed up and downloaded.

   

   

Question is what is it, as I don't think its what its is labelled as.

Label clue early 1960s Le Mans.

Cheers
            John

wow, cant believe i decided to jump down this rabbit hole,lol.  When I was a kid , had a Strombeker track with a huge banked curve that came from Montgomery Ward.  Lots of memories, several neighborhood kids had tracks and we went from house to house, usually Mothers telling us we were to loud.
Im old now, in my 70s, most my childhood friends have passed on but Im itching to make a race track.
I want 1/32 digital track and was set on Carrera but one of the first post I read on another forum was ...Im firing Carrera for some other digital equipment.  But those Carrera cars. such eye candy,lol.  But you gotta start somewhere,right??
I will build a 6ft x 8ft table, in two sections with rollers and have seen a couple on You Tube that was really kewl.  I am hoping for a decent long straight to start race into a bank curve.  Would like to include a big wide enough bridge that would have lanes running underneath it , to seem cars are going into a tunnel,pitt stops , hair pin if possible and digital lane changers.
Appreciate all advice and tips,
John

I should build myself a Mini for the Dakar Proxy I thought,

Luckily I had this Remonslot 2019 X Raid JCW Team MINI body kit in my draw 

   

I used an old Mitoos chassis which previosly had been run under a Jaguar I -Pace body, however I am waiting for a replacement pinion as the original one has split.

New competition available from Motorsport magazine: 

"Win one of five Scalextric Ken Miles Triple Car Packs."

LINK

Completely free to enter, you probably won't win but five people will, so nothing to lose. Closing date July 31st.

We had our first dedicated MRSlotCar races recently. It took a while for everyone to get up to speed. But, we're off and running now.

These cars run great!

   
   
   

Just before the race starts. Vanski holds up a new C1 Corvette and says "Ernie sends this as the prize for the winner of the race". We all had a moment of panic knowing we should have spent more time preparing. That's just how things go.


Everyone thanks Ernie for the fantastic prize!

   

Over the last few years I have built multiple WEC cars from superb  printed suppliers.

I love the WEC at the moment, so am trying to build up a grid. I thus bought 2 Scaleauto kits and the Scaleauto BMW.

So what change of heart am I talking about! With NO malice at the superb work done by the home printing suppliers, the cost of the body, parts and decals are higher than the current cost of the superb Spanish suppliers. I just cannot see my way forward in future to not buy these complete kits- 

The Lambo and Alpine are on my bench at the moment

               


The superiority of the Scaleauto BMW and my awful attempt (another story) that cost more is apparent in the pics

Your thoughts?

   

We dodged the heatwave, but our July Mod & Tuners night did clash with England's first knock-out round match of the World Cup. However, with one of Simon's best ever track designs in use, the sensible choice was to head for the Barn...

   

Over to Gareth for the race report...

Is it true that Carrera is going to start selling a digital track with analog racing built in as an option?