Digital Diary of the Well Mountain Mad Man

thanks all
I can't say much is happening, or maybe too much is happening.

I have worked a bit on the left side of the track, and also been testing the 2-lane to 3-lane distributor track piece and even though it looks a bit Scruffy I can say that it works really well Of course you'll slide a bit if you go into it too fast but it is definitely an attacking possibility


It leads into a huge R4U3 Sweeper:


Everybody have to break late into a left hand Squeeze:


The inner exitlane is a inner 2 inner 3 half straight inner4


back and under the Sweeping 4 and through a left hand R2i3 and into a straight


I haven't got the funds for digital bits (Or any thing else for that matter) but eventually I'll add some more flippers for this section.

until next time have a nice sunny spring

LOVE the squeeze, Lars. That track looks like a blast to drive.

Thanks Greg

Looking at it on the pictures I can feel an urge to move the Outer lane of the left hand squeeze closer to the 2 inner lanes.


Hmm I think I know what I'm gonna do tonight.

thanks for stopping by.

So I've been chopping my last digital bits (2 pit lane pieces)

one of them was transformed into this high speed straight lane changer


Very effective I must say as I can take it at full throttle with a F1 car


I shaved the flipper and added a half inner R3 pieces in reverse and then 2 straight pieces.


The other pit lane piece was made into this short single lane changer
No grinding on the flipper just added 1 and a half straight to the lanechanger, very easy:


And then I did another Squeeze


And last but not least Hear is a collage of my current test set up


cheers

wow, just wow. You sir, are a genious.

seriously great stuff, I might have a go myself some time! actually, what would be easier is if you informed scalextric about your genious ideas, they should take note!

(ooh first post, recent forum lurker first time poster me )

well, to be honest I havn't been lurking for too long!

anyway, naturally I will share ideas etc and all the rest of it.

one such idea i've been mulling over is a tight chicane (like the first chicane at monza) but with the slots/lanes closing up on each other so it would be pretty hairy through it, maybe with 3/4 lanes all really tightly packed. that was just a thought.

Oh, and i've realized already from these forums i've got alot of slot car terminology to learn!

That is brilliant, I'd contempleted something similar by inserting the flipper sections into a routed track, but you have taken it to a completely different level! I'd be faaaar too scared to undertake something like this!

Are you going to give the track pieces the same treatment as your other tracks with a layer of "dry wall mud" then carved into? (I must admit I am "borrowing" that idea of yours for my own track )

I am a loss for words!

You have done work that most of us can only appreciate and not replicate.

You called a "short single lane changer" a very easy piece of work. Not so my friend!
I will be lucky to create a modified CLC IN-to-IN best lane piece and that involves only one track cut per piece!

Kudos to you for experimenting and showing how plastic track can emulate routed for design variations.

Cheers!

QUOTE (Slotrace.dk @ 4 Apr 2010, 19:17) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>You must have a lot of spair pieces to start a work like that.
But nice with some different racing lines - hope they work for you.
I got a few odd pieces
Hope you'll stop by sometime during the summer for some slot related activities.

QUOTE (sealevel @ 5 Apr 2010, 08:02) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>I am a loss for words!

You have done work that most of us can only appreciate and not replicate.

You called a "short single lane changer" a very easy piece of work. Not so my friend!
I will be lucky to create a modified CLC IN-to-IN best lane piece and that involves only one track cut per piece!

Kudos to you for experimenting and showing how plastic track can emulate routed for design variations.

Cheers!

When you get started you'll find out how easy it really is.

chips

@Bam
Ohh yes I'll Do some cosmetic turn over on the modded track pieces, but not too much of the carving to begin with as I'm a little worried about dust in the mechanics and sensor parts of the lanechangers, + general maintenance of the lane changers, so I don't want too many patches of drywall mud that can come loose if I have to fix the plastic thingie that moves the flipper.

@ Mr. Scorpio
It's very much a test track, however lot's of stuff going on at the moment and if everything turns out good I'll be having a massive space for 1 large scenic digital track and 3 scenic rally tracks!!!(The Shopping Mall, The Mountain, + a yet to come rally cross track/raid track combineable in different ways)

Just have to find a way to fund the rent. :-( ......or rent out the fun.

This Rug Racing adventure is spanning 2 rooms hence the waste of space in the middle but I made it so 6 people could see the whole track, but of course there is a big contrast between the high speed part and the spaghetti bit.

thanks for the interest and taking the time.
chips

QUOTE It's very much a test track, however lot's of stuff going on at the moment and if everything turns out good I'll be having a massive space for 1 large scenic digital track and 3 scenic rally tracks!!!(The Shopping Mall, The Mountain, + a yet to come rally cross track/raid track combineable in different ways)

Soon all your tracks will be digital.......

brilliant and brave ideas.
I'm not sure I have the courage to cut the scaley pieces as you have done, especially the digital ones.
Maybe one day I'll give a try...