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Hello Slotters!
Since I have gotten so much joy and inspiration from viewing many track and scenery pics over here and on other places on the net, let me now show you some of mine from my home track, the "Skipsleat International Raceway" (SIR)
I owe a lot of gratitude to many of you for great ideas and inspiration, the list of people is nearly endless, but I especially like to thank Gerard from Racebaan.com for his great site that got me back into this hobby after nearly 30 years…and to the SlotMan team for making such an excellent piece of (free!!) timing software, with many great features such as: fuel usage and refuel options, starting lights, sounds and other user controllable events. The Badener heimbahn site for numerous electronic gizmos, Randy for getting me on the way with the hoist system, And finally Tom's Rennbahnseite for the how to make your own pit lane lane changeover pieces.
Now let's talk track:
Originally wanting to make it a 4 lane track , but that would have left me with too little space for some nice scenery (1/3 of the fun) and a working pit lane (another 1/3 of the fun), so I had to settle for a 2 lane track. But come one day somewhere in the future... (the final 1/3 is the actual racing itself of course!)
The Scalextric Sport track took me about 5 months to complete, working in my spare time. Lane1 Red, Lane2 Green, average lane length 16,60 m. (excluding the pitlane)
Since lane 2 is shorter but lane 1 has more outer(higher speed) turns, the lap times are nearly identical and are somewhere in the high 6 seconds.
Independent variable voltage lane power so my kids (2 and 4 years) can safely drive dad's cars around the circuit without too much car damage…Everybody a happy camper!
The table measures 3,90m x 1,50m. It is a wooden honey comb structure, with steel tensioning wires for stiffness, and since the track is in my workshop, I sometimes need the space for other projects as well, so it can be raised to the ceiling with an electric winch.
Timing hardware is a combination of Racecontrol and self made sensors for the refueling, software is SlotMan, that runs fine on (my first PC!) an old P1 133Mhz.
The pit lane building is made from MDF, about 2m long and currently houses 6 teams.
The track in the pit lane are all standard Sport pieces cut to various lengths and forms, and then joined as are the lane changeovers at the entry and exit and crossovers in the pit. (see the excellent how to's on "Tom's rennbahnseite").
There are currently over 130 team members in the pit lane , 33 marshallers, over a 140 spectators (62 above the pit boxes), 11 media people and various others, making a total of over 330 figures. They are from all different kind of brands and most of them are (re)painted by me and or "mutilated" to a different stance that better suits their purpose.
And now, for the important part: the pictures!
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overview
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looking N-E
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looking S-W
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Aerial shot from the starting grid and pit lane
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Another aerial, the tire stacks at the pit entry are lifesaver candies covered with heat shrink tubing, tire stacks in the hairpin up on the left are the new soft SCX type cut in half.
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Ready,steady….if a jumpstart is detected the power to that lane is cut off for 10 seconds!
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The race is safely underway, with Schumacher leading, as usual, and...
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…his brother Ralf unable to stay on the track (also as usual, ha ha ha)
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Lane 1 is leading with just a little less then half a fuel tank left (the green portion of the bar in the display, the software uses actual lap times to calculate fuel usage, so you can conserve fuel by going slower if you are running up front…Olav Mol (the Dutch much younger and much heavier version of Murray Walker) is giving commentary on improved lap times, fuel low states and other messages, controlled by the software.
The rearmost pit building on which the team trucks and the LCD are standing is the leftover from my disassembled first track (the SIR is my second track)
Well since these are the maximum pictures allowed in a post, I will continue after a break with a post called...PART 2!
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Since I have gotten so much joy and inspiration from viewing many track and scenery pics over here and on other places on the net, let me now show you some of mine from my home track, the "Skipsleat International Raceway" (SIR)
I owe a lot of gratitude to many of you for great ideas and inspiration, the list of people is nearly endless, but I especially like to thank Gerard from Racebaan.com for his great site that got me back into this hobby after nearly 30 years…and to the SlotMan team for making such an excellent piece of (free!!) timing software, with many great features such as: fuel usage and refuel options, starting lights, sounds and other user controllable events. The Badener heimbahn site for numerous electronic gizmos, Randy for getting me on the way with the hoist system, And finally Tom's Rennbahnseite for the how to make your own pit lane lane changeover pieces.
Now let's talk track:
Originally wanting to make it a 4 lane track , but that would have left me with too little space for some nice scenery (1/3 of the fun) and a working pit lane (another 1/3 of the fun), so I had to settle for a 2 lane track. But come one day somewhere in the future... (the final 1/3 is the actual racing itself of course!)
The Scalextric Sport track took me about 5 months to complete, working in my spare time. Lane1 Red, Lane2 Green, average lane length 16,60 m. (excluding the pitlane)
Since lane 2 is shorter but lane 1 has more outer(higher speed) turns, the lap times are nearly identical and are somewhere in the high 6 seconds.
Independent variable voltage lane power so my kids (2 and 4 years) can safely drive dad's cars around the circuit without too much car damage…Everybody a happy camper!
The table measures 3,90m x 1,50m. It is a wooden honey comb structure, with steel tensioning wires for stiffness, and since the track is in my workshop, I sometimes need the space for other projects as well, so it can be raised to the ceiling with an electric winch.
Timing hardware is a combination of Racecontrol and self made sensors for the refueling, software is SlotMan, that runs fine on (my first PC!) an old P1 133Mhz.
The pit lane building is made from MDF, about 2m long and currently houses 6 teams.
The track in the pit lane are all standard Sport pieces cut to various lengths and forms, and then joined as are the lane changeovers at the entry and exit and crossovers in the pit. (see the excellent how to's on "Tom's rennbahnseite").
There are currently over 130 team members in the pit lane , 33 marshallers, over a 140 spectators (62 above the pit boxes), 11 media people and various others, making a total of over 330 figures. They are from all different kind of brands and most of them are (re)painted by me and or "mutilated" to a different stance that better suits their purpose.
And now, for the important part: the pictures!
overview
looking N-E
looking S-W
Aerial shot from the starting grid and pit lane
Another aerial, the tire stacks at the pit entry are lifesaver candies covered with heat shrink tubing, tire stacks in the hairpin up on the left are the new soft SCX type cut in half.
Ready,steady….if a jumpstart is detected the power to that lane is cut off for 10 seconds!
The race is safely underway, with Schumacher leading, as usual, and...
…his brother Ralf unable to stay on the track (also as usual, ha ha ha)
Lane 1 is leading with just a little less then half a fuel tank left (the green portion of the bar in the display, the software uses actual lap times to calculate fuel usage, so you can conserve fuel by going slower if you are running up front…Olav Mol (the Dutch much younger and much heavier version of Murray Walker) is giving commentary on improved lap times, fuel low states and other messages, controlled by the software.
The rearmost pit building on which the team trucks and the LCD are standing is the leftover from my disassembled first track (the SIR is my second track)
Well since these are the maximum pictures allowed in a post, I will continue after a break with a post called...PART 2!
