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My name's Dimitri, I'm french, and I'm working for a few of months on a permanent scenic track.
The concept is to be able to drive the maximum of slot cars scales, on the same track.
The theme of the track is of course rally, but vintage city-country GT-GP racing too (vila real, targa florio, etc...)
For that, I based my work on Carrera Go 1/43 components, because it 's cheap, quite good quality, and not too big for my game room!
On my track, I can drive H0 cars ( tomy turbos, magnatractions...with a little braids modification ), 1/43 cars (jouef, artin, carrera go, scratchs, etc...) and 1/32 rally cars (only in "rally mode": one car against clock). Track lenght: more or less 9 meters.
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For the electrical part o f the job, I used two stock 15v carrera go, power supplies, with variable voltage (I used this article of P. Marchand for that: http://homepage.mac.com/pmarchand/cheap_an..._adjustable.htm ) , and added direction reversing . I added two scalextric sport 60ohm with brake controllers, and 3 power taps.
I've got computer race timing with photocells, the software used is Slot race manager.
On my track, I can drive H0 cars ( tomy turbos, magnatractions...with a little braids modification ), 1/43 cars (jouef, artin, carrera go, scratchs, etc...) and 1/32 rally cars (only in "rally mode": one car against clock).
Now, the scenery part!
In my idea of "multi scale race track", I was confronted with the scale differences of my cars!
To fix that problem, I decided to build the natural part of the scenery permanently, and build the buildings and accessories on removables bases. I arranged sites for the future removable buildings bases too.
With that system, for example on saturday I will be able to race a h0 vintage GT mediterranean grand prix with a set of vintage GP buildings, and on sunday I will be able to race a WRC 1/43 rally of suede, with a different set of scenery models!
With that, AND the direction reversing , my permanent track will still fun in the future, because I'll be able to add or remove scenery, and create new types of environments.
I've already almost finished the landscape (work in progress: 70%), Now I've to coat the plastic track for integration, then paint and add the scenery accessories ( home made modelling flock, home made trees ("how to" articles are here and here in french but easy to understand)...the "permanent natural part" of the track will be finished after that. (the removable buildings part of the scenery will be added after that)
Now the pics!
before plaster coating:
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after coating the mountains with plaster (it could be a snow rally track lol )
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Now, after adding some texture on the track:
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Now, I've to add some new textures, coat the track for good integration and it will be ready to paint!
Next improvments quickly!
dimitri
My name's Dimitri, I'm french, and I'm working for a few of months on a permanent scenic track.
The concept is to be able to drive the maximum of slot cars scales, on the same track.
The theme of the track is of course rally, but vintage city-country GT-GP racing too (vila real, targa florio, etc...)
For that, I based my work on Carrera Go 1/43 components, because it 's cheap, quite good quality, and not too big for my game room!
On my track, I can drive H0 cars ( tomy turbos, magnatractions...with a little braids modification ), 1/43 cars (jouef, artin, carrera go, scratchs, etc...) and 1/32 rally cars (only in "rally mode": one car against clock). Track lenght: more or less 9 meters.
For the electrical part o f the job, I used two stock 15v carrera go, power supplies, with variable voltage (I used this article of P. Marchand for that: http://homepage.mac.com/pmarchand/cheap_an..._adjustable.htm ) , and added direction reversing . I added two scalextric sport 60ohm with brake controllers, and 3 power taps.
I've got computer race timing with photocells, the software used is Slot race manager.
On my track, I can drive H0 cars ( tomy turbos, magnatractions...with a little braids modification ), 1/43 cars (jouef, artin, carrera go, scratchs, etc...) and 1/32 rally cars (only in "rally mode": one car against clock).
Now, the scenery part!
In my idea of "multi scale race track", I was confronted with the scale differences of my cars!
To fix that problem, I decided to build the natural part of the scenery permanently, and build the buildings and accessories on removables bases. I arranged sites for the future removable buildings bases too.
With that system, for example on saturday I will be able to race a h0 vintage GT mediterranean grand prix with a set of vintage GP buildings, and on sunday I will be able to race a WRC 1/43 rally of suede, with a different set of scenery models!
With that, AND the direction reversing , my permanent track will still fun in the future, because I'll be able to add or remove scenery, and create new types of environments.
I've already almost finished the landscape (work in progress: 70%), Now I've to coat the plastic track for integration, then paint and add the scenery accessories ( home made modelling flock, home made trees ("how to" articles are here and here in french but easy to understand)...the "permanent natural part" of the track will be finished after that. (the removable buildings part of the scenery will be added after that)
Now the pics!
before plaster coating:
after coating the mountains with plaster (it could be a snow rally track lol )
Now, after adding some texture on the track:
Now, I've to add some new textures, coat the track for good integration and it will be ready to paint!
Next improvments quickly!
dimitri
