Hi all,
Thought I'll share with you my project for the winter - a more permanent layout of my four lane Scalextric Sport track. So with this rather long first post... here we go.
Facts about the track
Name: Smallville Creekvalley Raceway (Rough English translation of the area I live in)
Track: Scalextrics Sport
Lanes: Four
Length: about 15 meters (50 feet)
Power supply: Scalextrics sport
Timing: Scalextrics RMS (Hopefully exchanging supply and timing to Sports World when that is made available)
Scenery inspiration: Classic Le Mans or similar, no exact copy
Height difference: 35 cm on highest point of the track.
Location: In my basement in our house in Gothenburg Sweden
Table size: About 220 x 450 cm
Direction of driving Will drive both ways.
Layout
For those of you who remember, I asked for advice some time ago on how to expand my layout in this thread. What I ended up with was this:
When testing the track flat on some tables it looks like this
Still some areas to work with but I was more eager to start doing some scenery instead of achieving the perfect layout. So I decided to get started in the corner of the track which I was satisfied with and left the right part as it is in the meanwhile.
Table construction
First thing I did was to build a table. It is based on 3,5 boards with the dimensions 220 x 120 cm. Total table size is about 450 x 220 cm (I think the type of board is called chipboard or fibreboard in English).
Then I started working on the elevations. The base for the elevation is 4mm plywood. The highest elevation of the track is 35 cm.
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Also, got some good help from my son and his friend to test the elevations… to get the track even and without sudden "breaks" took more time than I expected.
The old bridge and curve I have made previously will be rebuilt to fit the new structure.
Scenery details
Parallel to building the track I have started on my first two "building" projects. The Dunlop bridge (more info found here):
And some pit buildings, inspired by Nuros pit buildings but altered a bit in height and width, as seen in the pictures, not finished yet...
Further on with the scenery, based on the tips from Bastumannen, I have started to create the rock walls/mountain sides with the help of styrofoam, glue, a fork and a vacuum clear at hands. First pieces unpainted looks like this:
Areas beside the track are leveled with the help of cardboard/paper board or what you call it, making it easy to just paint slide zones and apply scenic material.
More pics
More pictures of the building of the track can be found in my gallery.
That's about it for now. Not much progress yet but I will post more pictures along the way as the track progress… And a big thank you to all the others that have posted pictures of their home tracks on Slot Forum, without this forum, I would never had been inspired to do a more permanent track with scenery to it!
Stefan
Thought I'll share with you my project for the winter - a more permanent layout of my four lane Scalextric Sport track. So with this rather long first post... here we go.
Facts about the track
Name: Smallville Creekvalley Raceway (Rough English translation of the area I live in)
Track: Scalextrics Sport
Lanes: Four
Length: about 15 meters (50 feet)
Power supply: Scalextrics sport
Timing: Scalextrics RMS (Hopefully exchanging supply and timing to Sports World when that is made available)
Scenery inspiration: Classic Le Mans or similar, no exact copy
Height difference: 35 cm on highest point of the track.
Location: In my basement in our house in Gothenburg Sweden
Table size: About 220 x 450 cm
Direction of driving Will drive both ways.
Layout
For those of you who remember, I asked for advice some time ago on how to expand my layout in this thread. What I ended up with was this:
When testing the track flat on some tables it looks like this
Still some areas to work with but I was more eager to start doing some scenery instead of achieving the perfect layout. So I decided to get started in the corner of the track which I was satisfied with and left the right part as it is in the meanwhile.
Table construction
First thing I did was to build a table. It is based on 3,5 boards with the dimensions 220 x 120 cm. Total table size is about 450 x 220 cm (I think the type of board is called chipboard or fibreboard in English).
Then I started working on the elevations. The base for the elevation is 4mm plywood. The highest elevation of the track is 35 cm.
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]
Also, got some good help from my son and his friend to test the elevations… to get the track even and without sudden "breaks" took more time than I expected.
The old bridge and curve I have made previously will be rebuilt to fit the new structure.
Scenery details
Parallel to building the track I have started on my first two "building" projects. The Dunlop bridge (more info found here):
And some pit buildings, inspired by Nuros pit buildings but altered a bit in height and width, as seen in the pictures, not finished yet...
Further on with the scenery, based on the tips from Bastumannen, I have started to create the rock walls/mountain sides with the help of styrofoam, glue, a fork and a vacuum clear at hands. First pieces unpainted looks like this:
Areas beside the track are leveled with the help of cardboard/paper board or what you call it, making it easy to just paint slide zones and apply scenic material.
More pics
More pictures of the building of the track can be found in my gallery.
That's about it for now. Not much progress yet but I will post more pictures along the way as the track progress… And a big thank you to all the others that have posted pictures of their home tracks on Slot Forum, without this forum, I would never had been inspired to do a more permanent track with scenery to it!
Stefan