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The work is just great! You are definitely on a roll there.
Like Ron I would also a bit worried about the wear and tear of the plaster. How are you going to do the electrical part of the crossing? Normally one would drill some holes and connect from the underside the two sides of the crossing, but can you do that?
Like Ron I would also a bit worried about the wear and tear of the plaster. How are you going to do the electrical part of the crossing? Normally one would drill some holes and connect from the underside the two sides of the crossing, but can you do that?
My worries with the plaster were about the slot part and not about the track surface. But of course there is the slot in the MDF below it, so not trouble will occur (I had not noticed the picture with the slot on the MDF).
Fantastic, sig. Your track has a mixture of realism and dream which makes it very unique. Maybe you should put somewhere in the dark tunnels and shadowy areas some creatures of the night.
About you mum difficulty to understand, I think it is not only her. Let be realistic, there is something a little peculiar with our obsession. I confess that I have avoided trying to analyse it.
About you mum difficulty to understand, I think it is not only her. Let be realistic, there is something a little peculiar with our obsession. I confess that I have avoided trying to analyse it.
Sig, again, fantastic! Great makeover. The aging of the wheels is also fantastic, I see your son inherited his father's talent. Only a true artist would have the patience to play in the sand pit for months just to get the right weathering effects on those wheels.
So you are an architect/designer, this explains the easiness you had to create your make believe town. I confess that I was surprised by the way you made the buildings and colouring of the walls in your town. It is different from what we usually see here. It is more "simple" and "rough" but more real at the same time more real. Being an architect by training gives you the perfect answer to your mother's worries: I realising my urbanistic dreams.
So you are an architect/designer, this explains the easiness you had to create your make believe town. I confess that I was surprised by the way you made the buildings and colouring of the walls in your town. It is different from what we usually see here. It is more "simple" and "rough" but more real at the same time more real. Being an architect by training gives you the perfect answer to your mother's worries: I realising my urbanistic dreams.
Of course, we like it and of course we want more of this. Another day my daughter saw your track and said: "Cool, you should do your track like that."
My daughter completely ignores my slot hobby. That sentence meant that maybe scenery making is acceptable. I love my daughters but sometimes I wished I had a boy just not to feel like an alien whenever I go to the garage or I look to the TV like a madman when Benfica or Portugal are playing. I NEED ANOTHER ALIEN IN THE HOUSE!! I can also come here and see what the other aliens are doing, which I do regularly.
My daughter completely ignores my slot hobby. That sentence meant that maybe scenery making is acceptable. I love my daughters but sometimes I wished I had a boy just not to feel like an alien whenever I go to the garage or I look to the TV like a madman when Benfica or Portugal are playing. I NEED ANOTHER ALIEN IN THE HOUSE!! I can also come here and see what the other aliens are doing, which I do regularly.
Sig, you should have done a video of you smashing the car. Let us face it, that was the point of all this. That green was really asking for it.
Ok, it also true that you did a great job as usual to make it look real.
Ok, it also true that you did a great job as usual to make it look real.
The lights are one more step you climbed and we like to see you climb! The last picture you posted is great, but what called my attention were the cars parked on the road and the slot going around them. Very realistic for many places in Europe and it looks great!!
I really like the idea but make sure the driving experience is a good one. One thing I do not like about airfields is that they are flat!
As a scenery theme it is absolutely fantastic and I will be looking forward for each update.
As a scenery theme it is absolutely fantastic and I will be looking forward for each update.
The video is fabulous and it is actually one more reason to do it. I am sure you will find ways to make it your own. The challenge was always, I thought, to do it for the slot car world. There have been so many movies with car scenes it would have been strange if some with similar theme had not been done yet.
Hey! That is the spirit! Advance. The spiral is a great idea I did once something in that spirit, i.e. a track segment that forced sliding. I did not take it to your level because I wanted it to be "realistic" is the rally sense. I really enjoy your go beyond the beaten track slot approach.
On the apprehensive side I think that you might have gone too far, or shall I say too in, in your spiral. Can you put a video with a car going through it? It might motivate me to extend my forced sliding element in the track I am building.
On the apprehensive side I think that you might have gone too far, or shall I say too in, in your spiral. Can you put a video with a car going through it? It might motivate me to extend my forced sliding element in the track I am building.
When I read about your problems with scale my thoughts were just build some things that look like planes. If you look at the plastics kits you have they look reasonably possible to imitate (for someone with your skills).
I would be interested to see what you come up that simulates driving over rubble but does deslot cars that do not have suspension. I think that is close to an impossibility by definition. Unless you draw or photo paste the rubble on the track, but then there is no actually driving experience of driving over rubble.
I would be interested to see what you come up that simulates driving over rubble but does deslot cars that do not have suspension. I think that is close to an impossibility by definition. Unless you draw or photo paste the rubble on the track, but then there is no actually driving experience of driving over rubble.
I am happy you found your solution and are in a yiiiiiiiiiaaaaaaahh! state. I will follow this thread now with curiosity about how well a 1/43 car does drive. You seem to be putting the scenery aspect above all which I totally understand.
Here goes a question for 1/43 crowd: will a 1/43 car do a powerslide along the spiral sig has built or will it look like a mouse going bonkers? If this sounds sounds like 1/32 snobbery it is not (or is it?
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Here goes a question for 1/43 crowd: will a 1/43 car do a powerslide along the spiral sig has built or will it look like a mouse going bonkers? If this sounds sounds like 1/32 snobbery it is not (or is it?
Oh! Come ooon!!! Give us a break!!! Now you are also an expert plane assembler and painter! Show us that you messed up something.
Ok, ok. I am calming down now...
Looks fabuuuuulous (maybe the stickers on the plane look a bit too vivid) looking forward to the next installments.
Ok, ok. I am calming down now...
Looks fabuuuuulous (maybe the stickers on the plane look a bit too vivid) looking forward to the next installments.
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