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Niki Lauda's Ferrari is just as nice as Hunt's McLaren and only needed a few decals to look better.
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More pictures on my blog.
Nick
More pictures on my blog.
Nick
Other Stuff
Hello,
Following a bit of a prompt from Scott on the NNRC thread I've started another thread. Its just to cover my scratch building projects although anybody else is welcome to join in of course.
I WILL CONTINUE TO POST ON THE nnrc THREAD AS WELL.
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At the moment I have a Ford F3L P68 on the go and have just received through the post an Airfix E Type Jaguar and VW Beetle. The Jag is going to be turned in the Bob Tullius Group 44 version. I know Top Slot produce this but I fancy the challenge. The Beetle is going to be turned into a Uniroyal Fun Cup Endurance racer which are based on a modified Beetle bodyshell but sitting on a single seater racing chassis. Look them up on www.uniroyalfuncup.co.uk is you want to know more.
I intend to use the Scalextric Sport Tuning range which is why I wanted to see how zxr400er's Ferrari 156 went with the little F1 motor in it. The Airfix Beetle is smaller than I imagined it would be so I think the F1 motor will be quite suitable.
Nick
Following a bit of a prompt from Scott on the NNRC thread I've started another thread. Its just to cover my scratch building projects although anybody else is welcome to join in of course.
I WILL CONTINUE TO POST ON THE nnrc THREAD AS WELL.
At the moment I have a Ford F3L P68 on the go and have just received through the post an Airfix E Type Jaguar and VW Beetle. The Jag is going to be turned in the Bob Tullius Group 44 version. I know Top Slot produce this but I fancy the challenge. The Beetle is going to be turned into a Uniroyal Fun Cup Endurance racer which are based on a modified Beetle bodyshell but sitting on a single seater racing chassis. Look them up on www.uniroyalfuncup.co.uk is you want to know more.
I intend to use the Scalextric Sport Tuning range which is why I wanted to see how zxr400er's Ferrari 156 went with the little F1 motor in it. The Airfix Beetle is smaller than I imagined it would be so I think the F1 motor will be quite suitable.
Nick
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Hello
Hopefully coming to an Open GT class near you
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. This is my "Kouros/Michelin" Maserati MC12.
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More pictures on my blog.
Nick
Hopefully coming to an Open GT class near you
More pictures on my blog.
Nick
Hello
My Eterna Watches NSR Mosler ready for racing this Thursday.
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More pictures on my blog.
Nick
My Eterna Watches NSR Mosler ready for racing this Thursday.
More pictures on my blog.
Nick
Ruebens
Your Ferrari will be with you on Thursday.
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More pictures on my blog.
Nick
Your Ferrari will be with you on Thursday.
More pictures on my blog.
Nick
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Nick, looks like you're keeping busy!
Some great cars here, really nice work
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I especially like the Jag
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where did you get the decals?
cheers,
Rob
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Some great cars here, really nice work
cheers,
Rob
Rob
Glad you like the cars, I really enjoy doing re-liveries it makes up for being a naff racer sometimes
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. The Jaguar decals were home made and I did the Taxi livery because I "supported" Tomy Drissi when watching the TransAm on TV. A good series that somehow folded up! Decal producing is something I've been inspired to do since joining slotforum and each livery I do is generally better than the last lot. I only use the clear backed decal sheet at the moment so they need to go down on a light body. I see it as an extension of the kit making I've been doing for years.
Nick
Glad you like the cars, I really enjoy doing re-liveries it makes up for being a naff racer sometimes
Nick
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Thanks for the reply Nick,
I had a feeling you would say the taxi decals were a one-off
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Nice to see your work though, keep the pics coming
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cheers,
Rob
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I had a feeling you would say the taxi decals were a one-off
Nice to see your work though, keep the pics coming
cheers,
Rob
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Hello
I fancied a change of colour with my Porsche 908/3. Yellow seems to be the "it" at the moment.
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More pictures on my blog.
Nick
I fancied a change of colour with my Porsche 908/3. Yellow seems to be the "it" at the moment.
More pictures on my blog.
Nick
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Hello
My proxy NASCAR series racer for the series being organised by "Da Vols" on th Slot Car Illustrated website.
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It would be nice to give it a test by racing it tomorrow (10 May) as a sort of " by invitation" entry
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More pictures on my blog.
My proxy NASCAR series racer for the series being organised by "Da Vols" on th Slot Car Illustrated website.
It would be nice to give it a test by racing it tomorrow (10 May) as a sort of " by invitation" entry
More pictures on my blog.
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What have you done, Nick?
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I admit am a bit of a livery purist when it comes to NASCAR, but turning Johnny Benson's beautiful Pontiac into something resembling a discarded cigarette packet has to be wrong! Generally I am an awed admirer of your reliveries, but not this time.
I wonder what reception it will receive in the US.
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I admit am a bit of a livery purist when it comes to NASCAR, but turning Johnny Benson's beautiful Pontiac into something resembling a discarded cigarette packet has to be wrong! Generally I am an awed admirer of your reliveries, but not this time.
I wonder what reception it will receive in the US.
Hello
Not a *** packet this time but cartoon Lions and bubbles. At least its not black!
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More pictures on my blog.
Nick
Not a *** packet this time but cartoon Lions and bubbles. At least its not black!
More pictures on my blog.
Nick
I've been having a DHL moment myself..................
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Peter
Your "Lotus" from a Chaparral is now finished.
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More pictures on the blog (well, will be soon, hopefully this afternoon)
Nick
Your "Lotus" from a Chaparral is now finished.
More pictures on the blog (well, will be soon, hopefully this afternoon)
Nick
That looks great, Nick!
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I look forward to racing it.
Peter.
Peter.
Peter,
Your Revell March 83G is done and will be with you tonight.
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More pictures on my blog.
Nick
Your Revell March 83G is done and will be with you tonight.
More pictures on my blog.
Nick
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Thanks Nick. I am delighted with the result. I have now perfomed a bit of surgery on it, which I hoped would make it more competetive. The aims were to lower the centre of gravity, improve the handling, and lower the gear ratio to improve acceleration and braking.
Using nothing more than a sharp Stanley knife, I removed the magnet mounting area, and a bit more, from the chassis (I never run with manets). I then extended the motor mounting holes downwards, again using the Stanley knife. The method here is not to cut, but to shave bits of plastic away using a scraping motion. I kept doing this a little at a time, checking regularly by inserting the motor, until the underside of the motor sat flush with the chassis, then a Slot-it 9 tooth sidewinder pinion was fitted and the motor was glued in using Araldite Rapid. Finally, I fitted a Ninco Prorace sprung guide, which, being darker in colour than the standard Ninco sprung guide, has no problem recording laps and making lane changes on SSD tracks (Scalextric recommend black guides only). Here are a couple of pictures of the result:
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Initial tests on my Scalextric Digital layout showed a huge performance boost over the standard car. The previous fastest lap for a March 83G was 9.2 seconds, but the modified car recorded an astonishing 8.5 seconds, equalling the times set by my Ortmann-shod Slot-it Porsches!
I can't wait to try it at Manor Farm!
Peter
Using nothing more than a sharp Stanley knife, I removed the magnet mounting area, and a bit more, from the chassis (I never run with manets). I then extended the motor mounting holes downwards, again using the Stanley knife. The method here is not to cut, but to shave bits of plastic away using a scraping motion. I kept doing this a little at a time, checking regularly by inserting the motor, until the underside of the motor sat flush with the chassis, then a Slot-it 9 tooth sidewinder pinion was fitted and the motor was glued in using Araldite Rapid. Finally, I fitted a Ninco Prorace sprung guide, which, being darker in colour than the standard Ninco sprung guide, has no problem recording laps and making lane changes on SSD tracks (Scalextric recommend black guides only). Here are a couple of pictures of the result:
Initial tests on my Scalextric Digital layout showed a huge performance boost over the standard car. The previous fastest lap for a March 83G was 9.2 seconds, but the modified car recorded an astonishing 8.5 seconds, equalling the times set by my Ortmann-shod Slot-it Porsches!
I can't wait to try it at Manor Farm!
Peter
Peter
I'm impressed with your mods to the Revell March 83G chassis and its something I want to do with my "Red Lobster" version. When these cars came out there was quite a bit of chat on the forums about affecting a change of gearing and someone came up was an anglewinder solution. I like your version as it lowers the weight. Well done
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Nick
I'm impressed with your mods to the Revell March 83G chassis and its something I want to do with my "Red Lobster" version. When these cars came out there was quite a bit of chat on the forums about affecting a change of gearing and someone came up was an anglewinder solution. I like your version as it lowers the weight. Well done
Nick
Hello
Managed to get myself a SRS2 Mazda which was white and blue. As you can see its now done in the "Camel" yellow colours. I hope it will be competitive when I race it this Thursday (30 Aug).
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More photos will follow soon on my blog.
Nick
Managed to get myself a SRS2 Mazda which was white and blue. As you can see its now done in the "Camel" yellow colours. I hope it will be competitive when I race it this Thursday (30 Aug).
More photos will follow soon on my blog.
Nick
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