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#47

Spoons, Shoots, 8mins, 24hrs

Brian's Show + Tell involved the full gambit of body colours. He started off with a fluorescent body, via a blue and silver example, to a masterclass in analysis of various body paints and how different undercoats affect the colour of the top coat. All done with the use of flexible plastic spoons. It had all gone well for him until he tried an orange top coat on a grey primer...however, it it was fine for his Turda Florio car.

Dennis also had a blue and silver body to show us, thankfully having survived giving us a one handed demonstration of lathe cutting whilst dangling the lead from his phone dangerously close to the rapidly rotating machinery! All done in an effort to show us the art of converting 'air hubs' to 'foam hubs'.

He then gave us a 'behind the scenes' chat on the videos he presents for a certain Californian slot car shop. Check out his Bugatti unboxing video as an example of his new acting skills...so whilst that had to be done in three takes, Greg was quick to point out that his recent '1 mile challenge' video was done in one take. One other person on the Chat admitted to watching this piece of 'slow TV' all the way through, and another one admitted to trying to predict the sequence of random coloured lights flashing in the corner of the track throughout the run. In an effort to defend his finishing time compared to the slightly faster one from a slightly older slotman, I'm sure I heard Greg say it was something to do with the way the sound waves from the car reflected off his body...

However, we did learn that Greg can't stand still for more than 8mins, which means he probably wouldn't be any good as a 'trigger monkey' for the DiSCA 24hr Le Mans slot car event that Wayne told us about during the second half of the Chat. He took us through his heartbreaking attempts to get a driving slot for one of the teams, and how, having stood outside the venue looking at the track through the window on the morning of the event, they invited him in and he got his chance. We got to see lots of pictures from the 2017 running of the event, both from his perspective and from two other competitors who just happened to be on the Chat. What I learnt, and what seemed to confuse Wayne a bit, was the fact that the car he started the race with bore little resemblance to the one that finished, e.g. different motor, different wheels, different tyres, different chassis, even a different body (i.e. the front third and rear third were missing, only the middle bit was left). But lots of very evocative memories of this unique event. 


So Summer will be arriving at different times in different parts of the world over the coming weeks, so who knows what time #48 will start and whether they will end up being 1hr early or 23hrs late...