Steve,
concerning your decision abaout a three-laner, I would suggest to consider the following:
I assume the right part corresponds to a depth of 1 m. So taking the measures from your drawing we get: 70 mm (measured from my screen) correspond to 1 m depth
The track on the screen is 15 mm wide, which corresponds to a real track width of about 220 mm.
This is really narrow, already for a two laner. My Ninco track (90 mm of track spacing) is 180 mm wide + 50 mm Skidpads on each side, which makes for a track width of 280 mm. Assuming a three-laner you would need at least 370 mm.
You could argue that track width of Scalex (78 mm) is OK. In this case you might end up with 156 mm + 50 mm Skidpads on each side, resulting in 256 mm.
In this case, the tree-laner would need 334 mm.
You my want to add the skidpads only to one side, reducing the width to 206 mm / 284 mm.
So: Imho, a three-laner is cool, but it needs a lot more space. Another cool thing is being able to do three-lane racing in 1:32 and two-lane-racing in 1:24 as JamieG said.
However, if you want to do that, you need even wider Skidpads. In fact Carrera skidpads are 100 mm in width - and you need them, when racing 1:24!
Going routed, you're free to add squeeze sections, saving space, but be careful using them...
I would suggest: define the standard widths you need - track width and skidpads - then do a scale drawing and make your decision based on the facts.
All the best
Diegu
concerning your decision abaout a three-laner, I would suggest to consider the following:
I assume the right part corresponds to a depth of 1 m. So taking the measures from your drawing we get: 70 mm (measured from my screen) correspond to 1 m depth
The track on the screen is 15 mm wide, which corresponds to a real track width of about 220 mm.
This is really narrow, already for a two laner. My Ninco track (90 mm of track spacing) is 180 mm wide + 50 mm Skidpads on each side, which makes for a track width of 280 mm. Assuming a three-laner you would need at least 370 mm.
You could argue that track width of Scalex (78 mm) is OK. In this case you might end up with 156 mm + 50 mm Skidpads on each side, resulting in 256 mm.
In this case, the tree-laner would need 334 mm.
You my want to add the skidpads only to one side, reducing the width to 206 mm / 284 mm.
So: Imho, a three-laner is cool, but it needs a lot more space. Another cool thing is being able to do three-lane racing in 1:32 and two-lane-racing in 1:24 as JamieG said.
However, if you want to do that, you need even wider Skidpads. In fact Carrera skidpads are 100 mm in width - and you need them, when racing 1:24!
Going routed, you're free to add squeeze sections, saving space, but be careful using them...
I would suggest: define the standard widths you need - track width and skidpads - then do a scale drawing and make your decision based on the facts.
All the best
Diegu
