1/43rd Lexan Group C / IMSA GTP bodies

QUOTE (masmojo @ 29 Mar 2012, 04:51) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Well, it's a wicked circle really people don't want to try 1/43 because there is little variety, but because there historically have not been enough people willing to give 1/43 a go we don't get any variety!

It might be hard for someone from 1/32 to understand the euphoria over Kyosho, in 1/32 you are spoiled for choices, but it was not that long ago that you were lucky to find certain models in 1/32. A good analogy would be that what Kyosho has just done with 1/43 is what Fly did to 1/32 when they first appeard 15 or more years ago. The Kyosho represents the first attempt by ANYBODY to make a commercially available 1/43 slot car aimed at enthusiasts and not 9 year olds! it's significant because they just released 12!! Yes 12!!! 1/43 slot cars at one crack. cars with motor pods, tunable suspension chassis, wheels that are straight & round, rotating guides, the list goes on. In short features that no 1/43 car had before and that some 1/32 cars STILL don't have. aditionally they are slated to releae another batch before the end of the year. people say that 1/43 won't be taken seriously until it loses it's toyishness and we ge some variety! Well, Kyosho has launched a fairly substantial bid to eliminate both of those arguments fairly quickly. I really liked he SCX Compact 1/43 cars, but Kyosho will equal the last 5 years of Compact car production by SCX in just one year! That is significant!

I encourage everyone who is skeptical to try one!

I have to agree with you as well... One can´t help considering the 43rd scale slotcar development and current state from all aspects.

My mistake ist that I again and again forget just one thing : 43rd scale slotcars were aimed to children by now and not to us real slotracers and scratchbuilders, and Kyosho is the first more serious attempt to make real slotcars out of them.

There´s only one thing I hope - that the number of people increases who see 43rd scale slotracing just as the other ones see their 32nd or 24th scale hobby - scratchbuilding, converting, REAL models with a good scale appearance, technical creativity in the chassis field, motor research and so on, ending up with competitions as with their bigger ( and smaller as well ) brothers.

The actual International scratchbuild proxy [ISP43] is a very valuable and important step in this direction.

Roland

QUOTE (masmojo @ 29 Mar 2012, 23:16) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Agreed, but what many may not realize is that this is not the first, It is (I believe) the second. the last one was almost 2 years ago and had apporx. 30 cars entered from North America as well as Europe and really exhibited a great variety of idea's and building methods.

There is a Hardcore group of us trying to lift 1/43 to the point of being taken seriously, but it takes participation. That's why I encourage people to try it!

One more being encouraged...

My one and only problem actually is the search for really small but yet powerful motors. The size of the widely used GO! motors is too big to build what I´d love to build - side - or anglewinder chassis under CanAm or other open cars ( LeMans spyders and similar ). But that´s one of the things that make scratchbuilding attractive : Search and (hopefully) find

Yet another thing - probably not new, I think :

If there are - as you say - already quite a number of slotracers who take 43rd scale slotracing really seriously, why not open an own thread for them, to show all their "works" in one place ? Assuming my own stance on that - I always feel really motivated by seeing pictures and thus comparing ideas and advances.

Finally a technical question - are there any ideas about what is a good starting weight for a non mag model ?

Roland