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Hello from OH IO - Bfish44 - 26th-Aug-20

Hello all,
           My name is Bruce. I am 43 from Ohio. Just started getting into slot car racing about a month ago. A buddy of mine built a descent sized digital Carrera track in his basement, a 1/24 and 1/32 track, we bought a couple cars and off to racing we went. It has been a blast so far. We are really enjoying it. I have a Ford Capri Zakspeed in the 1/24 scale and a BMW in the 1/32 scale. Also just purchased a Fort GT race car in the 1/32 and a Ford Mustang in the 1/32 but haven't had the chance to race with these two as of yet. Had to buy the Mustang to compete with my buddy's Firebird.

 I am actually hoping this community can help get me started in painting and building my own cars. Especially the 1/24 scale. There are a lot of 1/32 scale cars I like on Carrera's site so I will probably end up with about 7 or so cars. There just doesn't seem to be a lot of the 1/24 scale cars that I really like so I am really interested in finding bodies and doing my own paint schemes to them. I am just not sure where to start as far as the chassis goes. I don't think I'm ready for the build my own chassis route. I'm wondering if there are ready to go chassis and all I need to do is slap my painted bodies on them? What bodies go with what chassis? These are the kind of things I really am excited to learn about.

Anyway hope everyone is staying safe and look forward to learning from you all and sharing some of my paint schemes and builds if I ever get that far.

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RE: Hello from OH IO - woodcote - 26th-Aug-20

Welcome Bruce 

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RE: Hello from OH IO - JasonB - 26th-Aug-20

Welcome aboard Bruce.

Sorry, no idea about 1/24 scale bodies or chassis in the US.

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RE: Hello from OH IO - Scuderia_Turini - 26th-Aug-20

Hello Bruce, greetings from Scotland.  

1:24 scale plastic car kits cover a lot of great cars that don't exist in 1:32 so looking forward to seeing yours.  1:24 slot-racing is not very common in the UK although the BRM brand Minis and Escorts are appearing as they can be run on 1:32 tracks.

Leo

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RE: Hello from OH IO - autoavia - 1st-Sep-20

George Turner makes a 1/24 scale resin Mini kit here inthe UK

http://www.georgeturnermodels.com/shop/124-scale-kits/

If you want to race 1/24 on plastic track this link might help but I don't know much about the products so you would need to talk to the retailer to get more details or possibly other racers here have experience of TSRF chassis

.https://www.tsrfcars.com/Slot-Car-Shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=4_5&zenid=nqcqjelmlrafbqa40m3lpnftd5

Hope this helps

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RE: Hello from OH IO - Gordon Steadman - 1st-Sep-20

Welcome to the forum.

I prefer 24th scale but run retro cars so getting parts is not particularly easy any more. Do show us your cars.

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RE: Hello from OH IO - dvd3500 - 2nd-Sep-20

Whereabouts in the Buckeye State? I was raised in LaRue... :-)

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RE: Hello from OH IO - Savage GT - 3rd-Sep-20

welcome onboard !

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RE: Hello from OH IO - Bfish44 - 16th-Sep-20

(2nd-Sep-20, 09:36 AM)dvd3500 Wrote:  Whereabouts in the Buckeye State? I was raised in LaRue... :-)

In Canton. Lived within a couple blocks of the Football Hall of Fame for the last 20 some years.

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RE: Hello from OH IO - dreinecke - 16th-Sep-20

Welcome from Florida!

Any place you can get model kits will carry 1/24 7 1/25 kits for you to build.

For chassis - I've always used H&R 1/24 chassis - easily adapted to any model and run great!

https://slotcarcorner.com/collections/1-24-chassis-kits

Look around - tons of folks running 1/24 in the USA.

I'm a 1:32 guy, but have built a few 1/24 cars this way with this chassis:

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