Well ... I'm an old slot guy, coming back so-to-speak. I'm digging out my old stuff. Mostly 60's 1/32 vintage cars, track, and so forth. Ran into an old bud, we both liked messing with them and decided to get our old stuff back out.
My favorite home track of the time was Revell Hi-Bank Raceway.
My Revell gray colored track is quite wide ... and Revell manufactured a large wide and expanded radius banked curve. I made a matching curve out of 1/8 inch plywood, painted it with special track paint available in those days and it matched very closely the Revell version in color, "stick," and is an exact duplicate in size and banking.
Allowing high speed on the other end as well. I took wide to narrow straight sections and grafted them to the plywood track in order to section it with the standard Revell straight track.
I will need to get more track and of course accessories ... prices have climbed I noticed : )
Seems Euro track is narrower than US. So ... my question. Who makes Revell like track? Can I still get high-banked curve track w-i-d-e radius? I saw some Riggen stuff, all flat. But seller said would work with old Revell.
We, I, did most of our racing on home tracks, didn't have local commercial tracks available. Still don't.
This got long ... any info regarding Revell like wide track would be welcome. My cars, some 50 of them ... some kit cars, some scratch built ... are older than many readers here, are US style, thus the "larger" 1/32 size, some are 6 inches long. Therefore, I will need the wider track. I also remember that F-1 style cars also worked better on the wider track.
Yep, I packed them all away in vacuum sealed bags ... like the TV kitchen ads show. Haven't rouched them in decades. Dug a few out, they need tires, but run and are in great shape after all this time. Anyway . . .
Thanking you in advance for help . . .
My favorite home track of the time was Revell Hi-Bank Raceway.
My Revell gray colored track is quite wide ... and Revell manufactured a large wide and expanded radius banked curve. I made a matching curve out of 1/8 inch plywood, painted it with special track paint available in those days and it matched very closely the Revell version in color, "stick," and is an exact duplicate in size and banking.
Allowing high speed on the other end as well. I took wide to narrow straight sections and grafted them to the plywood track in order to section it with the standard Revell straight track.
I will need to get more track and of course accessories ... prices have climbed I noticed : )
Seems Euro track is narrower than US. So ... my question. Who makes Revell like track? Can I still get high-banked curve track w-i-d-e radius? I saw some Riggen stuff, all flat. But seller said would work with old Revell.
We, I, did most of our racing on home tracks, didn't have local commercial tracks available. Still don't.
This got long ... any info regarding Revell like wide track would be welcome. My cars, some 50 of them ... some kit cars, some scratch built ... are older than many readers here, are US style, thus the "larger" 1/32 size, some are 6 inches long. Therefore, I will need the wider track. I also remember that F-1 style cars also worked better on the wider track.
Yep, I packed them all away in vacuum sealed bags ... like the TV kitchen ads show. Haven't rouched them in decades. Dug a few out, they need tires, but run and are in great shape after all this time. Anyway . . .
Thanking you in advance for help . . .