[gascarnut]

Beejay's thread a while back about what we were building made me take some photo's of the project that came after my two F-1 cars for the proxy race. I have a few of Victor Ferguson's immaculate 1/32 vacforms and decided to make something a little radical, with magnet traction, for hometrack use.

The chassis looks like this:

Motive Power is a Slot.it 29K - originally I tried to use a Falcon, but that was way too much power for the weight! I don't have a picture of the underside yet, but there's a TSRF bar magnet nestled underneath between the motor and the gear. Tires are Indygrips on Slot.it rims at the rear.

The body so far looks like this:

I got the green a little wrong and I still need to make some decals for it, but the overall impression is fairly good, and best of all it goes well.

Enjoy.

 

[Russell Sheldon]

Brilliant, Dennis! You can only get an inline under those LMP bodies. Any chance of a picture of the underside of the chassis, please?

Kind regards

Russell

 

[gascarnut]

Russell,

Thanks for the compliments, and here's the underside:

 

[Russell Sheldon]

That's a really nice "magnet traction" chassis design, Dennis. It looks F-A-S-T!

I might just build one myself!

With kind regards,

Russell

 

[howmet tx]

Some pretty fancy pipe-bending there Gascar! REALLY nice work- crafty design too. Must try some more spaced-out stuff like this....

 

[Fergy]

Very slick, Dennis! Some nice wire-bending for sure!

One great thing about scratchbuilding.... there's always a slightly different way to build a chassis. Nice work!