Hello, and welcome to the wonders of week 48
This week we look at colourful Bugattis, an exclusive Alfa, a sensational Scarab, and some superb racing, plus we have all the upcoming slot car events, and a feature on artisan makers.
Slot Cars
- Bugatti Nation Color Project Add some colour to your racing with Hobbyclassic’s fantastic new series of Bugatti Type 59s in a range of liveries based on the national racing colours of twenty countries, including Britain, France, Germany, Spain and USA, to name but a few. What a great idea, just imagine a pit lane full of colourful Bugattis!
- UKSF Alfa Romeo UKSF have revealed one of the limited edition cars for this weekend’s Winter Slot Car Market. The first of one hundred Alfa Romeos has gone up for auction on ebay, and the rest will be on sale at the event.
- Avant Slot Plans 2023 Avant Slot have unveiled their 2023 plans at Foroslot this weekend. There are some exciting new cars and liveries…
- ScaleAuto BMW M6 & M8 ScaleAuto have announced two more models in the GT3 1/24 line, a BMW M6 GT3, and a BMW M8 GTE. Both models represent cars that raced at Daytona in 2018.
- Fly & ScaleAuto ScaleAuto have announced what could be a match made in heaven. The Fly Racing EVO 3 range will feature classic Fly Car Model bodies, like the Porsche 917 or Lancia 037, combined with Scaleauto chassis and mechanics.
- Penelope Pitlane Scarab F1 Pendle Slot Racing have updated their striking 1960 Scarab F1 kit. The kit now has a more accurate body shape, a more detailed driver and interior, and 3d printed wheel inserts. The model represents Lance Reventlow’s 1960 Monaco car. The Scarab may not have been the fastest car, but it was certainly iconic.
Tracks & Scenery
- TimeSlot Chronobox Time Slot is a universal system of timing and mode management, and most importantly, it’s available for iOS, Android and PC. It’s universal, plug & play and compatible with any track without needing to know any electronics. It features multiple race and training modes, driver manager, and sector timing. Unfortunately it’s not expected to be available until the fourth quarter of 2023.
Clubs
- Club Directory We’ve added two new slot racing clubs to the directory and club map this week, Hawthorne Park in Merseyside, and Mussel Bay in Norfolk.
Slot Racing
- Worthing Digital Worthing hosted their busiest Digital Saturday ever! Catch up with some great coverage, with all the results, photos and videos.
- MSCC – Race Results & Reports Manx Slot Car Club enjoyed some superb saloon and sports racing
- Autumn Endurance – InterSeries Proxy After some running repairs the Inter Series proxy continued at Viking, and Mountain View.
- Undara Circuit Race Results In the New South Wales Slot Car Group, the latest results are in from Undara Circuit
Events
- UKSF Winter Slot Car Market – 4th-Dec-22
- Worthing HO Wednesday – 7th-Dec-22
- Worthing Digital Saturday – 17th-Dec-22
- Worthing HO Wednesday – 4th-Jan-23
- Swindon Scalextric Swapmeet – 8th-Jan-23
- HO Drag Proxy – 11th-Jan-23
- Worthing Digital Wednesday – 18th-Jan-23
- Rockingham Policar GP – 14th-Jan-23
- Rockingham winter classic – 15th-Jan-23
Feature
In our special feature this week we’re going to take a look at the artisan makers in the hobby, the smaller scale producers that can provide you with those important items which might be a bit off the beaten track…
- George Turner Models George Turner produces high quality slot car kits of historic racing cars, ranging from the eras of early 30s Grand Prix to 70s saloon and GT racing. The kits are designed to be the perfect blend of scale model and capable racer, suitable for both amateur and experienced builders.
- Slot Classic Slot Classic have been producing hand crafted slot cars for twenty five years. But in that time they’ve only produced around fifty models and all are made in limited numbers, so they are collector’s pieces.
- Slot Track Scenics Slot Track Scenics produce a large range of scenic items, including figures, advertising boards, fencing, tyre walls, pit walls and timing stands.
- Magnetic Racing Magnetic Racing make a large range of laser cut, self assembly slot track buildings, including control towers, grandstands, bridges and pit walls.
- Pre Wing Pre Wing make classic slot car shells, saloons and race transporters. They already had the Vanwall Transporter avaialble but now the BRM Transporter has also arrived.
- Betta & Classic Betta & Classic claim to be the world’s largest on-line catalogue of currently available 1/32nd & 1/24th scale slot car bodies, producing what are often referred to as lexan or soft bodies.
- AA Bodies AA Bodies make 1/32nd resin car bodies suitable for static display or for slot car racing, mostly hard to find 50’s & 60’s sports cars not made by others.
- WASPslot WASPslot offers a range of slot car parts and accessories. From urethane slot car tyres & 3D printed Carrera guide adapters to model car paint stands, scenery items and figures.
- Patto’s Place Patto’s Place offer over 1500 different model car bodies, and over 22,000 different decals, each availble in 1/10, 1/12, 1/18, 1/24, 1/32, 1/43 and 1/64 scale.
- Immense Miniatures Immense Miniatures create highly detailed figures, scenic items, and accessories for slot-racers and static modelers. Available in multiple scales, depicting the thrills and romance of motor racing between 1930 and 1970.
- Scenic items manufacturers/suppliers index A regularly updated resource thread
- Slotcar Alley You can always find most of these makers, and other essential links, over in Slotcar Alley, our dedicated section for the best online sites that the slot car world has to offer.
