[Lloyd.L]

As all of my posted Little Monte track photos were lost in the recent Photobucket debacle, here they are again, with some new ones to be added soon:

The beginning, trying out an idea.

Then got a bigger shed and started extending the track!

Then started filling in the gaps.

Until it was (nearly) all covered!

At this point, 2011, I got a little distracted and went on to other projects and very little work was done on the track until I hosted a stage of the 2015 Gentlemen Drivers 1/43 Carrera GO rally proxy:

In the next post I will show some of the building work that has been going on since then.

Regards, Lloyd

 

[Chappy]

That looks great Lloyd, and a good challenge.
It dosent appear to be more than 4 feet from the wall so a good use of space too.
Bob

 

[steveaca]

Fantastic but I'd be a little wary about cars falling off cliffs !

 

[Lloyd.L]

Thanks guys.

It is under 3' from the back wall Bob, it allows me to have 2 x 3' wide x 14' long layouts in the same shed.

I have not had a problem with cars falling off Steve, even before I added the small walls that it now has. The speeds are much lower than on a circuit, so the cars tend to spin rather than fall off.

I built it to be a challenge to drive, and it is certainly that!

Regards, Lloyd.

 

[Lloyd.L]

As with many layouts, I thought of the trackplan first and the buildings last! So I have to make the buildings fit in the available spaces, which are nothing like their positions in the village of Lantosque, which they are (loosely) based on!

A while ago I experimented with using corrugated card to make Meditterranian style roof tiles and was happy with the results. They looked even better after a couple of coats of terracotta paint.

As can be seen, these are just the bare buildings, yet to be detailed, and there are plenty more yet to be made.

And plenty of sections with no buildings, but will have snow and people:

Regards, Lloyd.

 

[David Lawson]

Lloyd

Thanks for going to the trouble of re-posting your rally track build after the Photobucket problems.

I love the early pictures with the track "suspended" in mid air and your textures in the rock face are so realistic, the village buildings are also superbly constructed with all the proportions and tricky angles expertly achieved.

David

 

[Lloyd.L]

Thanks for the kind words David. I decided to make a new thread rather than try to replace some of the old photos in other threads, so as to make it easier to follow. Especially if/when I get round to finishing the scenery!

The buildings have been made to fit he very limited space available, but I have followed the design character of real buildings as much as possible They are 1/50 scale, as 1/43 looked a little too large, and many of the layout's inhabitants are 1/50th, so need houses to suit them!

It was a lot of fun to drive on the 'suspended' track before the structures were put in place!

The problem with this track is that cars seem to need 'testing' round there when I should be working on it! The Falcon is a hoot when driven hard.

Cant wait to get the snow on there1

Regards, Lloyd

 

[taskak]

I have seen pictures of your Monte track many times but never realised just how long your track is, that is impressive!

Cheers

Aki

 

[Lloyd.L]

Thank you Aki, the lap time is around 25 seconds, but I am sure it will get lower than that as the cars improve!

Regards, Lloyd.

 

[pfuetze]

every time is the Little Monte, i want to build a hill climb as well!

it´s a really great track, Lloyd!

 

[Lloyd.L]

You should Peter. Then we can have an international mountain rally proxy!

Regards, Lloyd.

 

[pfuetze]

if i can figure out a place where to put it, it would have been already built!

but an international mountain rally proxy sounds great!

 

[Ade]

Hi

many thanks for taking the time to re post everything

seeing those first pictures again bought the memories flooding back

 

[loosesalute]

Excellent pics of a great track Lloyd.
What happened to photo bucket like?
Cheers
Kev

 

[Lloyd.L]

Hello Kev, Photobucket pulled all the photolinks unless we paid them a lot of money!

Regards, Lloyd.

 

[loosesalute]

Greedy nowts. That probably means all my old ones are gone.
Cheers
Kev

 

[Lloyd.L]

Probably Kev, but some seem to have survived.

Regards, Lloyd.

 

[Fluff]

Had the pleasure of driving on this track this afternoon, great fun,and getting in some practice for the proxy race in September . I hope that I can do justice to all the cars entered Cheers Steve

 

[Primed]

Any more updates Lloyd?

 

[Lloyd.L]

Not much I'm afraid Primed. I have done a lot of ;invisible' work, such as cleaning up the slots and smoothing out the rougher sections of road on the top bit.

I am holding the 2020 1/43 Little Monte Carlo Rally Proxy in May and need to finish a lot more of the scenery by then. I need to take up my friend Fluff's offer to help with the buildings as soon as we can get organized.

The layout is currently painted white, ready for new rock coloured paint and lots of snow.

We have had, seemingly, months of rain that has put me off getting much done, but I hope to be out there working early in the new year.

Regards, Lloyd.