Strombecker made some of the nicest molds, and the McLaren M1B, was one of their nicest, and very much to scale,....it is a tiny little bugger !!

Anyway, it has been sitting in my workroom for eons, and with the forced hometime we are all enduring, I have decided to make it my next build.

Trying to make this..............this one is not mine, unfortunately mine is a little worse for wear..........



Into something like this................so a few bits to be made/added.



I started with the chassis, as I find these the easy part of the job..........a simple single rail chassis with .047 main rails, set for 2mm+ clearance with 19+ mm tyres.

This will be powered by a stock Scaley FF050 motor and will be legal for our early USRRC/CanAm class, although as short and narrow as it is, it will struggle.



I have started the bodywork........removed all bits, opened the vents, (as they should be , they were closed in the original), and added a front diaplane, and a rear spoiler.



Still a lot of clean up to do...........



The car is tiny,....I think I mentioned that,.....luckily the shortest wheelbase setting on my jig was perfect !!




Still miles to go, but, I will post updates......

Stay Safe

Chris Walker

Here is part three of the 1/32 scale Cobra Daytona Coupe and Ferrari 250 GTO build:



Any and all comments are more than welcomed!

Thanks

John

       

With the prospect of club racing looking rather uncertain over the next few months, is anyone interested in a bit of proxy drag racing? These are the dates...

June 9 & 10th - Sign up HERE
July 7 & 8th
August 11 & 12th
September 1 & 2nd
September 29 & 30th

What is a Drag Race Proxy? It’s very simple. Competitors send cars to the race master (I like that title!) who races them all on a drag strip at their home. You sit back and follow the action online - lots of fun and lots of social distancing. We can start with one strip and one set of classes, but hopefully there will be more.

What is the Rock County Eighth Mile? It is a short 7-foot (2.13 metre) timed drag strip - a scale eighth mile in true 1/87 HO - built from the new 2019 Micro Scalextric track. Power to both lanes is triggered by a relay switch - so it is all about the cars. 15 volts is used for the Micro Scalextric cars, 12 volts for the T-Jets. It will probably handle some Aurora AFX 3 and 4Gear cars too, but probably not anything much quicker.

How does the racing work? Cars from each class have three qualifying runs and the best time is used to rank the knock-out eliminator competition. The fastest qualifier faces-off against the slowest and the winner goes through to the next round. Racers are eliminated until just two remain - the winner of the final wins that class.

How do you enter? When a race is announced, add you name to the race thread on SlotRacer Online or contact the race master directly. You will be sent the address to post your cars. You can enter one car per class being run. The entry fee is the cost of the return postage - £2.95 for a second class small package paid online and dropped in a post box.

What cars can you send to race? We’ll start with three classes - two of them using the old 1995-2018 Micro Scalextric cars. These are cheap and easy to find in the UK. Some WHO racers already have T-Jets - but these will need braid soldered onto the pick-ups. I'll sketch out some class rules below. I will also post various tutorials and resources here on SlotRacer Online.

Of course, this isn't just open to WHO or HO racers - it's for anyone that might be interested.

Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have been given permission by Hornby to distribute the ARC BLE.

 I can make it available under the following conditions:
 
1. While no NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement) is required I ask for you to respect any and all IP (Intellectual Property) also of other users
2. Please post your progress here, using the forum features to gather user input and work on proactively improve the ARC experience
3. Accept that I cannot support you technically in any capacity as I am not a developer. My keyless entry of my car confounds me!
4. Accept that I cannot divulge my connections to Hornby at this time. This may sound like an odd request but for many reasons: Legal, personal and practical I have to state this up front. 
5. I will ask you to provide some contact information simply to keep track of what is going on. These will all be stored and processed according GDPR (EU data protection) laws.
6. Be nice!

I think that is all.
Contact me by PN and we can go from there.
Thanks!

Hi, I know this is a long shot, but if anyone has 2 of these needing a new home please let me know how much you want for them posted to UK.
These were the inserts provided with the Scaleauto Honda HSV as per the picture below, so if they are in a plastic wheel and not coming out, I am happy to buy the whole wheel. 

   

Cheers.

   

I have a few lockdown projects on the go and one is updating my HO drag strip. With the future of club racing very uncertain, organising some proxy drag racing might just be a handy stop-gap.

I built a strip three years ago. It should have been a weekend job... throw up a shelf on the wall, set up my Auto World drag strip and - voilà - let's race. But I didn't count on the geometric idiosyncrasies of my house.

This street was built in the 1840s. With bricks and timber in short supply, many of these working people's houses were put together with shingle from the beach, bits of scrap and anything the builders could put their hands on. This is the infamous Brighton 'bungaroosh'. Improvements have been made in the intervening 170+ years (most of the street is still standing), but the outcome is wonky walls, uneven floors and tilting ceilings.

My plan was to put the drag strip on the wall above my test track. I grabbed some perfect five-inch wide strips of scrap mdf sheet surplus to requirements at a house renovation a few doors down. I then realised the wall was really wonky - the middle bowed out nearly three inches from the corners...

I considered cutting out the curve from the mdf, but soon realised this wasn't going to work - they'd be no room for the track. Instead, I cut the mdf into three pieces and did a little trimming so it skirted around the bulge and allowed the drag strip to stay fairly straight. Batons and a couple of braces were fixed to the wall, mdf fixed to them - and I had a shelf. The mdf was sealed with grey primer and the bottom of the shelf, batons and braces painted blue to blend into the wallpaper...

   

Looking for an Australian business/person who sells Magnabraid by the spool. Iv'e reached out to one and got the blow off, obviously they don't want me to buy braid and make my own.

TIA

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-healt...SKCN2292NO

So many say this is the end of DTM (Deutsche TourenMeisterschaft=German Touring Masters) as this only leaves BMW as a manufacturer.

I attended the DTM final in 2018 and frankly, as a series, I don't mind it going.

I attend nearly every race at Hockenheim and I found the cars not appealing, stupidly loud, and overall too full of itself.

For example, local radio station and store advertising was covered up. The big Ravenol oil can on the control center was covered by blue screen sheet.

You couldn't go anywhere but the "fan mile" that was open to the public or the grandstand you had tickets for. Security checks were at every entrance.
Most of the paddock was blocked by men who were twice as wide as were tall and biceps bigger than my head.

All the other races I go to you can sit where you want, go where you want, watch what you want. I seldom pay more than 50€ for the whole weekend. Kids under 12 are free.

IMHO there are too many racing series. We have DTM, TCR Germany, TCR Europe and WTCR in Germany. All "touring cars". The TCR series is the closest to what I would consider real touring as the cars have partial interiors and the motors and layouts are somewhat close to their street versions.

There are also private touring series, why can't we combine all of them?

DTM was just a big marketing show, about as bad as NASCAR. The amount of money floating around was nearly revolting.
We know motorsport ain't cheap. But does it have to be stupid expensive?

Formula 1 has asked the Hockenheimring if they can come and play. They positioned it as they were doing us a favor so the XXX,XXX,XXX € they wanted was a "freinds' price" (you read the number of X's correctly). The management here has said thank you, how about X,XXX,XXX? We will see what happens (I happen to know some people in the office there...)

Seriously, is Formula 1 really so much better than say, Formula 2 or 3?

The fall of motorsport in general though is also down (IMHO) to some of the shoddy reporting. In the UK at least you see articles with some insight and anecdotes. Here, people basically just get who qualified where and who won. Basically people figure the fastest car always wins and that is, as we all know, not the case!

We have to get this across to people somehow.

Formula E (I know some of you don't like it) is at least trying to make a connection...

In 2006 the NSCC was asked to provide a slot car exhibit for the Toyota stand at that year's Goodwood Festival of Speed. Over a period of four weekends a team of NSCC members led by Gareth Jex built what must surely be one of the largest slot hillclimbs ever constructed.

The finished article was 3mtrs wide,  2.5mtrs deep and 1.8mtrs high. It was constructed in three parts and needed a 7.5 tonne truck to transport it.
The theory:    
The practice:    
Are you sure this will fit in the lorry?    

The track and timing pieces were Ninco, donated by Peter Binger of the Hobby Company and the cars used were nine Toyota Celica GT rally cars by Topslot. They had their magnets removed and some modifications to the front axle to improve handling, otherwise box stock.

The track ready to go at Goodwood:        

Around 1000 people had a run up the hill over the three days with prizes for fastest times being awarded on each day. A decent time was in the 25-28 second bracket with the fastest time overall being set by Alan Proud of the Woking slot club at 23.9 seconds.
               

Toyota F1 driver Ricardo Zonta tried his hand:          

As did Lord March himself who set a time of 34.9 seconds:    

What seemed like half the West Sussex constabulary also had a go. Each took his place on the rostrum while his colleagues stood beside him making wah wah noises:
   

The Toyota Celicas survived the many inevitable trips to the floor with one stripped pinion the only mechanical breakdown all weekend.

The hillclimb was also used at the Slot Rally event held at Toyota HQ in Epsom later that year and then put into storage. It was never used again and was eventually broken up because we couldn't find anybody with enough space to take it off our hands.

So I have seen a slot car that would fit nicely into a race series at the local club which uses standard Scalextric motors and track...but the car has the motor at the front end of the chassis. 

1. Has anyone, ever, managed to build and tune a front motored slot car into a competitive machine using the original chassis configuration? 

2. Does anyone have any clever tips for installing a digital IR LED somewhere at the front amongst all the guide and motor kit? 

Be honest with me, I haven't bought it yet... But I am up for a challenge (with all you help!)