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[rallyhub]

Hi everybody,

My Dakar track was in the may 2006 edition of the NSCC Journal.
I sent only pictures of the ready track to the editor.

Here on the forum, I want to show you some pictures of the building process.
I hope they are usefull, when you start making your own MDF track.
Enjoy the pictures.

rallyhub


Drawning the track on the MDF board

One half of the track

The track complete, after making the slot with a pendulum jigsaw

How to make a wooden African bridge

Cutting pieces of the track surface with a chisel, to get it rough

The copper tape

I turned the whole track on its side, to plaster the vertical rocks

The building of the African village

How it is done

Several colours of paint are the basic for the desert landscape

The sawdust mixed with grit from the model train shop on the wet paint

The roofs of the cottages are made of cardboard and sisal

The sisal roofs after painting

Some local inhabitants made from Scalextric figures

Driving on the rough mountain roads of the African desert

Dakar atmosphere

[fatchrisk]

Simply Awesome!

Nice work - more pictures please!

Chris

[snowmanf]

You make it look easy, but I'm sure it isnt.
Very nice to see the great tracks explained.

[slicknik]

rallyhub

can you come to my house and do mine its box mountain 2 I am always up for comments.!!!!

thats looks breath taking how long wa the whole process take you.

best regards nik

[rallyhub]

Thank you very much for your compliments.

It took me about 6 months to build the track.
Most important, before you start, think about what you really want to create.
Only, after you have a detailed worked out plan for yourself, you can start with the building process.
You donnot need to have the plan on paper, it can also be completely worked out in your mind.
During the building, you often still have to improve, but your basic plan keeps you always in balance.
It is also true, that some patient helped a lot.

rallyhub

Just for fun, here are 2 other pictures of the track



The African village

On 3 wheels, leaving the village

[scaleymatt]

Thanks for the how to rallyhub, your work is simply amazing!!

Matt

[downtowndeco]

Very cool. One of the best ever. I want to try & do something similar using the Ninco raid track. After I have it set the way I like I'm going to fix it in place, bondo the seams & then paint it to look more realistic. Someone here did something like that (w/standard blacktop track) & it looked awesome.

Do you use any "loose" material on the track? If so, what? Cheers.

[rallyhub]

Hi Downtowndeco,

There is no loose material on the surface.
After the paint is dry, the saw dust and grit from the model train shop is removed with a vacuum cleaner.
The left material what you see on the surface, has stucked into the wet paint.
So, it cannot damage the gearing of the cars.
On the picture below, you can better see the surface of the road.

Success building your own Dakar track, and show us also some pictures if you like.

rallyhub



Do you use any "loose" material on the track? If so, what? Cheers.
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[XJ220]

Excellent work, it looks superb.

[Schauinsland]

Hi rallyhub!

I admired your track in the other thread. I love the way the track surface looks. It really looks like a deep sandy track.

I think the track must be good to drive, but a nice realistic scenery makes a very good track track a superb track!

Proost!

[rallyhub]

Hi everybody,

Here I want to show you 2 pictures of real Senegal and 2 of the Dakar track:



This picture is taken by my wife, when she was in Senegal.


This is the well on the Dakar track


The second real one is from our newspaper "De Volkskrant"


The Rally Raid cars on the Dakar track in action


Both pictures inspired me, to build the Dakar track, with the well into the typical African village.

During the building process of your track, it is always usefull,
to lay some of your racing books or pictures on the track.
It gives you a lot of information about the colour settings,
and what it will look like.

It doesnot matter what kind of track you are building.
It also helps when you, for example building your Le Mans circuit.

I hope this will help you also when you start building your own track.

rallyhub

[tDI_Fahrer]

Schitterend! Puik werk man! Echt origineel! Prachtig gedaan!


* Translation of the dutch sentence: Fantastic, great job man! Really original! Beautifully done!


Where in holland do you live rallyhub?


Gunther

[rallyhub]

Hi Gunther,

I live in the south of Holland.

rallyhub

Fantastic, great job man! Really original! Beautifully done!
Where in holland do you live rallyhub?
Gunther
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[pace1970uk]

I remember seeing this in the NSCC journal a few months back and admiring it then.

Fantastic work, lots of original ideas and great attention to detail.

Wonderful.

[rallyhub]

Hi pace1970uk

Thank you for your compliments.
For me, it was a big honour to be in the NSCC Journal.

rallyhub


On 2 wheels downhill.