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Made a resolution that I wouldn't make any more additional entries to this blog until the workspace was in order. Well that's not going to happen anytime soon! I'm at my most creative in the middle of a shite storm, I suppose.  At any rate...it's time for another flask of coffee. It's Monday 2:39 PM and I'm still comatose. It's a good thing that I don't have a real job or I might actually have to be awake. Read the results of the Thingie Proxy race held at Ezio Scisco's track in Turin. Really terrific stuff. The North American's with our fancy schmantzy Shinodas are taking a royal spanking at the hands of the Euros and the Brits but that's not surprising. I was floored at how well the Italians, Czechs, British, Spanish, Maltese etc tuned and drove their 1/32 scale Open Eurosports on tight, flat cornered tracks back in 1988 when I returned racing slot cars after an 18 year hiatus. North Americans went in the opposite direction (can you say Wing car?) and have subsequently reshaped the tracks and rules to fit the speed at any cost mentality. Too much testosterone for my tastes. Anyhooo, going to have to find my soldering iron if I'm going to get anything done before the sun goes down.
 The 1963 Auto World catalogue was my first exposure to slot car racing.  This is a 1/32 scale carved balsa body of the Auto World logo in the bottom left hand corner of the catalogue. It was originally going to be an entry in the 2001 Marconi Proxy race but I was never pleased with the shape of the body. After much fiddling with it this past week, it's finally ready for a final coat of primer and a couple of coats of early 1960s GM truck red. I'll be able to work on the circa 1963 Revell RP66 powered plate chassis after a couple of Shinoda thingies are finished, a MESAC Ferrari 312, a NAMRA Lola T-70 MkIII, a retro pro anglewinder F1...
 ...we have plenty of booty! Managed to strip and clean most of the shells that arrived in yesterday's post. The Ferrari GTO interiors were overglued to the point where the outer surface around the rear deck had partially collapsed. It will be filled with leftover plastic shavings and Testor liquid cement. You can see the difference between the grey primered Strombecker Lotus and the Revell Loti. Hard to believe they are the same car. The Revell Mercury Cougar has a twist in the front quarter and looks like it ran up on a curb. C'est la vie. These will eventually make for interesting slot subjects...eventually.  Cleaned up a few old metal bits...the 1/32s are up front and the 1/24s in the back. Not an inline in the bunch. That will change soon as Kai and Edo's thingies are on my slate as we speak.  Not finished procrastinating quite yet. This is a 1953 Mattel Future Car. It is fairly rare (and I have the box) and much larger than 1/24 scale so sorry Edo, no thingie conversion forthcoming.  This plastic toy bank is 1/24 scale but it isn't officially a thingie (well, it is and it isn't) so you won't see a motorized version in next year's thingie proxy races. Soldering iron is warm and the electrical bill is paid up, so it's time to get back to work.
...and leaves a package at the front door. Inside the box are 3 Revell 1/32 Ferrari GTO, 3 1/24 Revell Lotus 20 Somethingorother. 1 Revell BRM F1 and 1 1/32 Revell 1968 Mercury Cougar body shells that were won at auction online. The Lotus and BRM bodies are not very well proportioned when put next to the Strombecker Lotus (which was sculpted by Indyphile Bob Clidinst) but they have potential. The real gems are the Ferraris of which two of the three are pretty much complete with glass and interior. I guess I will have to fire up my vintage Mattel Vacuform machine (also won at auction on eBog) and churn out an interior and window glass. The Merc Cougar is way undersized and has a warp in the front...but it's well detailed so eventually it will get put on a jig and be given the steam kettle treatment. Time to toss them into the slough and strip the paint of of 'em. 
Hello! Dennis David asked me to contribute a scratchbuilding how-to to his blog but I thought..."Why not start my own blog?" Not very original but the thought of putting together an organized, coherent article for Dennis is beyond my capabilities. Spontaneous rambling is more my speed so here we go. Kai Bach Andersen was kind enough to turn a few sets of beautiful O-ring thingie front wheels in exchange for a "jaildoor" chassis and a custom painted Shinoda Bullet body. The wheels are a work of art. I will post a construction article over the next few days and a few airbrush techniques which may or may not help.  It will be patterned after this chassis but will fit a 16D motor and a dropped 1/16"-1.588 mm front axle.   I'm also building a chassis and painting a body for Edo, carving a few 1/32 balsa bodies, looking for my digital camera which I seem to have lost temporarily...but more on that later. 
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