We attempt to mimic the IndyCar Series in HO scale with a mix of street, road course and ovals, every driver must paint their car to match the livery of a current IndyCar entry. I hope you'll check out our web site indyslotcar.com, in includes results from every race run over the past 27 seasons and photos and videos as well as our rule book. We don't take ourselves too seriously.  

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The November/December editions of Model Car Racing Magazine and Slot Magazine are out now...

   

Model Car Racing is a 60-page bi-monthly magazine produced in the US by Robert Schleicher (author of Slot Car Bible and many more slot car books). Each issue looks at a wide range of scales, formats as well as featuring recent releases.

This is the line-up for the November/December magazine:

• Carrera and Scalextric 2020 models?
  
• Shadowfax 1931 Bugatti T54
  
• Proto Slot Kits and MMK 1965 Lotus 40
  
• Track Test on 7 cars
  
• Tech Tips - tuning with weight
  
• Slot Mod tracks
  
• Vintage racing
  
• Digital racing
  
• Real race track plans
  
• History of the hobby
  
• HO racing
  
• New cars
  

The Model Car Racing website is modelcarracingmag.com. The magazine is available in the UK from Pendle Slot Racing priced £7.50 - the NovemberDecember issue is already in stock: www.pendleslotracing.co.uk/model-car-racing-mag-issue-108


   

Slot Magazine another bi-monthly publication and is also available from Pendle Slot Racing, priced £5.50. The magazine can also be bought direct from the publisher and at some WH Smiths stores in the UK. It is also available on phones and tablets via Google Play and the App Store.

Here's what's in the latest issue:

Tail of the Prancing Horse
We open a Pandora’s Box, which is the history of Ferrari’s sports cars seen through the eyes of slot car manufacturers

Williams into McLaren will go
We show you how to convert an FW07 into an M29 – a piece of cake!

Thunderbirds are Go
A review of the latest new model from Scalextric, the mid 1980’s Ford Thunderbird

2019 NSR Championships
We not only attend but race at this prestigious manufacturer backed weekend of slot racing

Goodwood Revival
Terry takes a look at some of the fabulous machines on display, especially Ferrari that tie in with the collecting feature

The Firebolt
Richard Hills tells the story of this unusual model, which was originally designed to be powered by a small jet engine

Team Alfa
Mark Hatton shows us how to create a complete race team based around one of the latest F1 teams

Ferrari ’s white elephant?
Terry delves into this overlooked Le Mans challenger and builds it as a resin kit

Wacky Races
The famous TV cartoon series is now bought to life by this new Scalextric Micro set

Galaxie Quest
We look at the possibilities of how to complete the Professor Motor1/32nd scale Ford Galaxie body kit

The Scalextric club is back
What’s in store for members of this relaunched collectors club?

NSR have just posted this fabulous video tutorial on their YouTube Channel. It's not the first white kit video they have produced - there is also one for the Porsche 908/3 and another for the Corvette C7R. It is great to see the skills of an NSR employee as they assemble the car and handle the tools they use.

I discovered over the weekend that I live in the same town where the Red Bull 2017 Grand Prix Guides - featuring Carrera Digital132 track and Carrera cars - were filmed and edited. You might remember them - a mix of cute animation and quirky live action with the Red Bull and Toro Rosso drivers edited in...

Here's the first one:



The SheepFilms team of Brighton-based artists and filmmakers built all the tracks in one of their studios using the track plans on the Carrera website (www.carrera-toys.com/route-planner). With the Carrera track system being so big, very few of the designs fitted the three 4 x 8 foot boards, so there were quite a few tweaks. Denise, the team member who I was chatting to, created the sets on an incredibly tight schedule and also shot most of the track and car footage. She is particularly proud of the Monaco film set, which was mostly built out of the packing cases the Carrera equipment arrived in from Austria. The track plan needed considerable modification to fit the drivers' dialogue...

         

And here's the Monaco video guide...



If you search "Red Bull slot car video" in Google you'll find most of the season's videos on the Red Bull website. Here's another that's on YouTube - a guide to Suzuka...




And the postscript is... I am now the proud owner of the Carrera Ferrari 458 that was used as the camera car in some of the videos

1. You make a call to a govt department, you get diverted.................the person you need to talk to is off (probably another sicky) and nobody else is dealing with the info you require.
   
2. Website language choice - which version of English do you prefer...but there's NEVER an English option always some other version we English don't use
   
3. Missed calls (5 or more times in the last 10 minutes)...doesn't bother to leave a message and it's from a private number
   
4. petrol price hike in TT week
   
5. Public sector pay rises above what everyone in the private sector gets and they still whinge
   
6. Disproportionate representation of minority interests in the media
   
7. BBC bias
   

That'll do for starters

If I search for something and under "Item Location" tick the box "UK Only" I still get presented with items that are in China. I don't mind buying stuff from Peoples Republic of China and have done several times but if I am keen for quick delivery, Its a pain to have sort through "erroneous" listings to check where the item will come from.
This includes clearly bogus listings that state London as the item location but when you check the business address it is in Shenzhen in Peoples Republic of China.
For example:- https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2x-car-batter...2783697454
   
Of course, it would be handy if one could check a GB VAT Ref but there is no such facility in the public domain.

Leo