I was digging around in the closet yesterday and lo and behold I found my old Kodak Carousel slide projector and about 20 boxes of old slides in circular holders. Well one was labeled old models and cars.
Pardon me as these are 1/24th scale as no one near me then ran the 1/32nd stuff. They all thought it was too small. I built a few but not many till 1998.
Well, with no projection screen, I set it up to project some slides on a door face that was near white.
And What to my wondurous eyes should appear but some of my old slot cars. Including my very first two which were scratch builts in 1963 and my 52 hour enduro car in 1965. Many all well over 40 years old. I remembered taking those pictures with my old Argus C-3 camera which I knew very little about and it had no macro close up options so they are not the best quality.
Especially since I re-took these shots of them with my digital camera from the door projection image.
Exactly when these were taken is also a blur in my faded memory but some one might enjoy seeing them as I recover a few more in the next week or so. This first one was a real runner as I remember and I did quite well with it then. And if you notice the shiny spots on the rear tires they are some of my first silicone coated sponge tires I started to make back in the mid to late 1960's.
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Pardon me as these are 1/24th scale as no one near me then ran the 1/32nd stuff. They all thought it was too small. I built a few but not many till 1998.
Well, with no projection screen, I set it up to project some slides on a door face that was near white.
And What to my wondurous eyes should appear but some of my old slot cars. Including my very first two which were scratch builts in 1963 and my 52 hour enduro car in 1965. Many all well over 40 years old. I remembered taking those pictures with my old Argus C-3 camera which I knew very little about and it had no macro close up options so they are not the best quality.
Especially since I re-took these shots of them with my digital camera from the door projection image.
Exactly when these were taken is also a blur in my faded memory but some one might enjoy seeing them as I recover a few more in the next week or so. This first one was a real runner as I remember and I did quite well with it then. And if you notice the shiny spots on the rear tires they are some of my first silicone coated sponge tires I started to make back in the mid to late 1960's.
