[42redcat]

Another excellent slot car has taken to the Mess, and acquitted itself well. Wonderful grip and nice performance. Just needs the tyres to be run in properly. View attachment 293382 View attachment 293383 View attachment 293384

Red on gold? I’m not sure about that! Wouldn’t black numbers have worked better with gold?
Glad it runs well, anyway.
Mike

 

[Nick the Porsche]

Excellent work Laurence. Even better to see several of them together !....... you could run a separate class for them at the mess. In the Chris Harris link earlier the car is a light metallic green, is that the original colour?

 

[Trisha]

Red on gold, Mike? You might be right. Black an approvement? Probably.

Nick

Thank you. The car wasn't green originally but it was my intention to paint it in Jade Green to replicate it as it is today. Due to supply problems, I couldn't buy anything even remotely close, so... it's in a wholly inauthentic gold colour. Just enjoyed several more laps around the Mess. It's getting better and better, but is now in need of lubrication.

I enjoy all my Porsches on a regular basis. Lots more projects to build, of course. Lots more anon, therefore, I suppose. My thanks to you again.

 

[chappyman66]

We all know that the best way to true tires is through many laps, and I am quite confident the Mess will prove a capable truer for those shoes, gold or not.

 

[Trisha]

Lots more laps 'smorn as well, Chappyman. The new car goes like a dream, although not one of my dreams, as they always result in nightmares. I often wake up in fright after being pursued by enormous Hereford bulls, 'gators, giant pigs and similar.

Tyres now nicely bedded in, the motor is smooth and responsive and the tail can be drifted around corners. All exactly how I like slot cars, and their 1:1 counterparts, to be.

 

[Trisha]

A few relatively recent builds.

 

[chappyman66]

Quite a fine collection sir. Simplicity adorns with it's own beauty.

 

[Trisha]

Chappyman

Thank you for such kind comment. I've spent a lifetime studying and absorbing everything about the Porsche way of doing things, and it still fascinates me. It's been a long journey, and doing it all again with slot cars is an enormous and rejuvenating bonus.

I'm hoping that one day when Mrs Grumpy leaves on one of her trips to inspect the European continent - she likes to know that standards are maintained - that I can bring my collection out of hiding and post a few pics. Too dangerous at present but, as usual, hope springs eternal.

 

[Trisha]

 

[Trisha]

A small point hardly worth mentioning, but until yesterday I'd forgotten to put the exhaust pipe on this car. It's the kind of detail that can, however, make a worthwhile difference, so it's now in place. As indicated in an earlier post it's made from a piece cut from one of the Porsche's axles.

 

[Trisha]

Just stumbled into a few more pics of the 60K10.

 

[Trisha]

Crunching a wing on this car today would be an expensive proposition.

 

[Trisha]

What might have been in 1939 without Hitler and the rest of his deranged despots.

 

[KensRedZed]

Sounds good.

Concerning your wonderful artistry. The only word that comes to mind at the moment is to quote the seagulls from the movie Finding Nemo... "MINE!"

 

[Trisha]

Thank you, Ken. You are too kind.

 

[Trisha]

Another 60K10 to build in the very near future, but one with a difference. I recently saw a pic of a K10 online without its wheel spats and became anxiously mobile. Just have to do a slot version so I immediately got on to the dot.com machine to beg an additional shell from Frogeye, which he duly obliged.

Thanks, Michael. A most compelling project. More anon.

 

[Trisha]

An overhead view showing the uncluttered and wind-cheating shape of Erwin Komenda's penmanship.