Tweaking Scaley pit stop and Artin grandstand

Thanks so much guys. I really appreciate the kind words. I believe Artin stuff is now available in the UK, but I can't recall the name of the stockist. Visit www.slotcarworld.com (hope that's O.K. Nuro) and look under "Artin Dealers" and you should find the listing. It's a great and vastly underrated product, IMHO. My entire layout -- aside from pit road -- is Artin track.

Regarding the Artin R1 or standard curve, it is a little larger than a Scaley R1 curve. Most likely somewhere in between a Scaley R1 and R2. No problems whatsoever at this point with long wheelbase cars. The track works brilliantly. And, it's cheap!

Regarding the trees -- they're all hand-made from Woodland Scenics kits. I used a poly-fibre material, also made by Woodland Scenics, stretched over the tree armatures. I then shoot them with some diluted white glue and sprinkle on fine ground foam of different colors. There are about two pre-made trees on the layout, but the rest have been done by me.

Yes, I agree about the MRRC figures. They're hard to find here in the U.S. though. I'm still painting some of the figures from the first batch I bought. I'd really like to buy some of the SRA figures (we really need a distributor here) and I'm looking forward to Monogram's rerelease of their figures.

Steve

Thanks again to everyone -- and thanks to you Fergy! I can't touch the fantastic work you and others do on the scratchbuilt chassis, so this is something I can mess around with that looks halfway decent.

Now, it's time to see some of you guys do this stuff. We have these great looking cars, shouldn't we have a nice backdrop for them?

Anyway, per my edited post above, I realize I've probably overwhelmed Nuro and the good folks here at Slotforum with pics of the track, so I'll hold off on any additional updates for a while.

Oh, and Nuro, I FINALLY have a write-up on the layout that I can send to you. Just let me know off-line how you'd like me to get everything to you.

Thanks again,
Steve