These 1/32 static kits from AMT are lovely to convert into slot cars.

   
   

Test fitting the body to the chassis.

   
   
   
   

Driver, decals, inserts, and tail lights added. Window bezels, wipers, and other external metal parts chromed.

   
   
   
   
   
   

Thank you very kindly for looking. Let's go racing!

The newly created Carrera track on Tenerife:

The base plate is made of 5mm thin wood and hinges on the wall. It measures 300cm x 166cm. The construction is reinforced by 4 cm thick square timbers.

Rail material from the Carrera 124 and Carrera Exclusiv systems is used. The marginal strips of Carrera, which are sometimes painted yellow, are painted over in black because they do not occur in nature. The white median was left because it is not a real racetrack, but a real street image.

When folded, the track has a distance of 9 cm to the wall. The buildings are therefore a maximum of 8.5 to 9 cm high. Higher elements are provided with "paper hinges" so that they automatically fall over when the track is closed and straighten up again when opened. These include, for example, the Orca in Loro-Parque and one or the other tower on the site. The only exceptions are the lap counter and the press tower, which have to be removed manually before closing.

All components (except the rail material, some figures, the palm trees and the bushes) are made of paper (80gr / m2), cardboard (180gr./m2) or 5mm foam sheets. For some elements, toothpicks and thin wooden sticks from the craft supplies are also used. Lightweight construction is the central requirement so that the weight can be borne by the thin wood and it does not break. The car models Ford Mustang, Mercedes 190 SL, BMW 2002, Porsche Carrera and the Toyota Hilux are also cardboard models, as are the airship, the helicopter, the orca and the dolphin in the park. Many elements are in-house designs, but a big thank you goes to carrera4fun (the greatest site ever in this area), slot-hobby, pedemann-online, Canon and Epson for the many, many templates and ideas.

A stabilized laboratory power supply unit with separate feed for the two tracks and 2 additional feeds each is used for power supply.

The original idea was to thematically design a track with the framework of the racetracks of the 1960s, mainly following the example of the Nürburgring. After some construction, however, it quickly became clear that the landscaping should also include elements from our new home. Tenerife certainly offers more than enough sights and motifs. The difficulty is to represent a motif on the available space in such a way that it fits in and yet looks somewhat realistic. On the whole, this worked out quite well, if several attempts were necessary with various elements. But, from experience you become wise and learn from each model.

Clearly, there is always something to do. After completing the rough design and the distribution and positioning of the respective mottos, further fine-tuning work was carried out, which will probably take some time. Due to the modular construction of each motif on its own 5 millimeter thick foam sheet, it can easily be removed and reworked without affecting the railway itself. In the beginning, for example, the figures were missing everywhere, the tools in the workshop, etc.
The computer time measurement is done by a standard Carrera lap counter which I am very satisfied with. It shows lap times, fastest time, number for a certain period of time. A very cheap and easy solution.

Hi there.

I spent the first 50 years of my life in Germany, since 4 years I am living on Tenerife. Because this is a small island, I can't get all spare parts that I want. So I decided to create my circuit decoration and buildings by printed paper. A few of them are downloads from known webpages, but most of them are self designed.

If you are a member of a club that we haven't yet listed on our Clubs page please feel free to post up some club details and I'll add them.

If you post here often enough we can also set up your own dedicated feature page, as we've done for Worthing, Presto Park and Norwich amongst others.

As you can see from the examples above your page can feature photos, videos, club details, social media feeds, forum posts, google maps, and links, so it can be quite useful. It could even act as a dedicated web presence for clubs that don't want the expense of setting up their own website.

This car is very similar to the car James Dean owned at one time. I am not fond of silver, so I went hunting for something different on a website called https://www.racingsportscars.com/

I found this beautiful blue Spyder.

   

Tamiya light metallic blue seems to be close.

   

Test fitting the body to the chassis. This is a small body.  Is there room for an interior and driver with a flat-6?

   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

Thank you very kindly for looking.

There are a lot of nice tracks listed here. My tracks don't compare to most.

I have a 1/32 Scalex track under a 4'x8' work bench. It's a bit of a task to remove the 4x4 plywood covers (seen on the right). But space is tight. It has a power track that utilizes separate power supplies for each lane. A bit of a rare find in Canada. I'm old school and prefer analog. This is only for a few select RTR slow cars. Nothing scratch built runs on this track. It's just for light hearted fun.

   

I also have an AFX track based on a design called the "Oak Creek 36". It sits on a 3'x7' foot plywood base. It's an interesting design in that all the offs happen at either end of the track. 2-people can easily race and marshal for each other.

   

I ran the power under the plywood to each end, and install quick-release alligator clips to the controllers. Designed for those kids that win a race and raise both hands while still hanging on to the controller.


   

The track opened up for racing.

   

The track is attached to a hinge that allows it to fold up to the wall. This hall was the most useless part of the basement until that track went up.

   

Then I got invited to my first club race. I could not believe my eyes. I have not looked back since. I can't wait to build a routed track sometime in the future.

   

ProNoMag 2021 - 21.2.2021

Date: February 21, 2021

number of cars per entrant: max. 3
The track: app. 78ft. 3 lane wood track, latex paint, copper tape for the rails - magnets have no effect
the race: race will be run in lane 1 and 3, 25 laps practice, 25 laps race, the slowest 5 times will be deleted
the power supply: each lane has a seperate adjustable powersupply, 1.25 to 19V @ 3 Amp available
the timing: IR light bridge and laptimer 2000
the controllers: available controllers: 90/75/60 ohm parma eco, 45/35/25 Parma eco, 25/18/13 parma eco, 15/11/8 parma eco, I will choose the controller where the car is driveable as its best during the practice laps.
entry fee: 15 Euro (is used for return shipping of car)

Rules:
1) car must be approximately 1/43rd
2) max. width 50.8mm
3) no fluid may leak out, no grease, oil or braid juice may pollute the track, no tire glue or similar
4) teams may ask for a special voltage where the car should be run.
the standard racing voltage depends on the motor. I will run all cars @ 12V, SCX and Carrera motors @15V, Kyosho@16V, KyoshoX@13V. 
5) car must have a body that looks like a car, race look prefered, but not necessary
6) no silicone tires, rubber and PU are fine 
7) no pin guides (like carrera or artin)
8) all tires have to touch the track
9) cars must run 20 qualitfication laps on lane 1 prior to the race. Cars must get a fastest lap in this heat under 11 seconds to qualify for the race. Please don´t worry about this rules, stock SCX or Kyosho cars can do it easily. Only the fastest 20 cars from the qualifying will run the race. qualifying times will be posted with the race times.
10) shipping box must be suitable for return shipping 

BARC - Challenge
The BARC - Challenge is eligible for all cars with BARC motor. The challenge will run during the ProNoMag, but the cars will get a seperate  valuation. The BARC cars are eligible for the regular ProNoMag valuation as well. 

concours de elegance: the best looking car will be voted by the host and get a special price. 

Let´s celebrate 10 years of racing on the Desmo with some nice and fast cars!

Hello to all readers!!!

The Jaguar XJR-14 for me personally, is one of the two meanest Group C cars ever build.
The other one is the Toyota TS010.
As only one of these two only exist as a 1/32 slotcar model (injection molded I mean).
I had to go with the Jaguar XJR-14 for this little inbetween project.


The IDEA

As allways in slotracing, I wanted to try something different again to use in a slot event/race.
This time it would be for a Slotit Group C race at our local club.

I assume opinions are very different when it comes to the Group C racing class,
some people have found it to become very boring and old, others still prefer it.
But whenever a good 1/1 Classic Meeting comes along (let's say the SPA-Classic),
These Group C beast will allways give me goosebumps, that pure sound!!!

As Slotit covers the most Group C cars is still IMO quitte amazing,
but I wanted to use something different as stated before.

   


The BODY

The body was found quickly, the older SCX SRS2 range had just the thing I was looking for.
The dimensions were very similar to the any Slotit Group C car.

Width : 63mm.
Lenght : 154mm.
Height : 33,5mm.

Body Weight : 29gr.  (allready glued in the slotit "SICH57B" Chassis-to-body kit)

   
 
A bit heavy yes, but this gave me a mission on how to drop the weight without actually using any tool to thin the body out,
and to get as close to the required min. 21gr. body weight (club regulations).
The only thing that was removed from the body were the 4 SRS body clips that hold the body and chassis together.
As this was done quickly, their were only 3 other loose body parts I had to work with, being:
* Interior
* Windowunit
* Rear spoiler

For that last piece on the list I turned to Steven (SV workz), and asked If he would design a 3D model to get printed.
As the original SCX rear spoiler weight about +/- 5gr.,  the 3DP model was only about +/-2gr.
That saves about +/-3gr. less weight hanging behind the rear wheels, which will definitely improve handling.

For the ohter 2 pieces on the list, Only one thing could be done with it, "Lexan".
The interior needed to be adjusted a tiny bit, as the motor was a bit more to the front now when using a Slotit HRS Inline chassis.
But that is only a minor adjusment, which I'm working on as we speak.
After this has been done, it's time to get some vacformed parts, hoping this will drop the bodyweight as close to the 21gr. or lower!


The CHASSIS

As allready written above, the chassis will be a stock slotit HRS inline chassis with all the mechanical parts of a regular Slotit Group C car.
Nothing fancy this time, I did use the Slotit "SICH57B" chassis to body kit, as this will give the option that the body can move/float a bit.
Instead of using the original delivered mouting pins that come with the HRS chassis.

   

   


That's about it for now, more to come soon on this little project.
Thank you for reading!

Kind Regards Tom

Over the next few weeks, or months, or possibly longer, we're going to be introducing some changes to the site.

Don't worry, this won't affect the Forum at all, but if you're brave enough to wander off piste, you might well find that things look a little different.

I'm obviously hoping to make this totally airtight and seamless, but with around 500 pages to change, I'm not going to kid myself that there won't be mistakes.

So if you happen to spot anything that's wrong, could be better, or is just plain useless, please feel free to shout up.

The first section I've changed is British Racing Greens, and the basic template will be similar throughout the site, so let me know what you think.

         

Slot.it CA40b Alfa Romeo 155 V6 Ti #27 - Markku Alén, Helsinki ITC 1995. Available Oct/Nov. RRP £62.95.

Available very soon is another eye-catching livery on the Slot.it Alfa Romeo 155 V6 Ti - this time rally legend Markku Alén's McDonald's-sponsored car from the 1995 International Touring Car Championship double-header in Helsinki...

       

DTM stretched their legs in 1995, twelve German-based events (twenty-four races) under the usual Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft title and a further five European events (ten races) in Italy, Finland, Britain, Portugal and France as the International Touring Car Championship. Although the two championships were separate, it was the same cars, teams and drivers that took part - Bernd Schneider winning both drivers titles and Mercedes winning both manufacturers' awards.

       

Alén drove the factory-entered Alfa at the DTM season-opener at Hockenheim, retiring from the first race and finishing the second race just outside the points, in eleventh. The ITC race on home turf was marginally more successful - thirteenth in the first race and tenth place in race two, scoring one championship point. That was it for Alén's brief taste of top-flight touring car action - he would continue to enjoy his post-WRC career with some European ice racing and two attempts at the Dakar Rally. He made one return to the WRC, taking part in Rally Finland in 2001 to celebrate his fiftieth birthday. He finished sixteenth in a privateer Ford Focus.

Underneath the fabulous livery, the Slot.it Alfa features the previously-updated body and chassis mould, plus the usual DTM 21k S-Can motor in a 0.5mm offset inline motor pod. The new JST connectors make it easy to convert the car to digital. Both plastic front and rear aluminium wheels are 15.8x8 mm, fitted with the correct wheel inserts and Slot.it C1 compound tyres.

The car is available as a pre-order now from Pendle Slot Racing and MRE.