Discussion
Blakeatron said:
Could you shave the keep on the newer cars slightly so they didn't chatter?
We have over 30 long straights and numerous bends of classic and would be a shame if we couldn't do a huge layout once in a while!
The classic track can become a right pain in the 'Arris if it's not stored in ideal conditions. I've got about 400ft of the stuff, some bought, some given to me when folk found out about my 'fetish' but since we no longer live in a house with a suitable loft for boarding out, much of the track has become twisted and takes a LOT of careful fettling to run 'just so'. We have over 30 long straights and numerous bends of classic and would be a shame if we couldn't do a huge layout once in a while!
You can (or at least you could) buy adaptor sections to join classic and Sport/Digital track together. SCX 'Classic' track is also better quality than Scalextric's own product, in my experience. And the SCX cars are better too.
Off now to put a white "6" on one of my many Mansell FW11 Canon-Williams, and make some money off some poor sap on ebay...
Edited by yellowjack on Tuesday 26th January 18:22
groomi said:
yellowjack said:
Off now to put a white "6" on one of my many Mansell FW11 Canon-Williams, and make some money off some poor sap on ebay...
To be honest, it's something I might consider if I can't get an original Nelson Piquet car by the time I'm 50, but not to sell. Definitely not...
HorneyMX5 said:
This thread is now relevant to my interests having accidentally just won a Mini Urban Speed set on eBay for £30.
Collected, tested, addicted. Turns out the set was an unwanted Christmas present and had been used once for maybe 10 mins. Such a bargain. I'm slightly worried it might be the start of something a bit expensive though.
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Bought this tiny little flea of a thing last night for my club's "Classic Le Mans" class - I know, this one doesn't even have lights, but it's allowed.
Spent the entire race evening terrified of the throttle. It's a sidewinder so wheelies hard if you punch it at the start, it's got a short (TINY) guide-to-axle distance (About 1.5cm shorter than the Slot.it GT40, so it corners well until it doesn't, it weighs almost nothing (I've got a big lump of lead in the front to just tame it for that night, I'm going to hotglue it in better, it's loose at the moment) and it's fragile as all hell (look at that mirror).
I like it though. It is a totally different animal to drive and I know when I can get my driving up to scratch it'll reward me heavily. As it is, I can't get it around the track much faster than an SCX DTM car at the moment
I dug out my old cars/track from the garage last weekend and let the kids loose on it. It used to be a 15m, 4-lane track but only about 75% of it it still usable, the cars just needed new braids and all run OK. I'd forgotten how fast the FLY cars can go.
Since the kids don't use anything unless it has a screen, I came across the ARC powerbase set for £67 on Amazon, the one with the bluetooth controller that links to a tablet or smartphone. It simulates tyre/fuel usage and you need to come in for pit-stops.
It seems to work well, timing to 0.01s and reliable.
I'd have loved this sort of thing when I was first using it 35+ years ago.
LongLegs11 said:
Any more home layout pictures?
I've been building a ninco layout in the garage, pictures soon!
Looking forward to seeing this, have a couple of large boxes of Ninco track that haven't seen the light of day since moving out of London in 2002! And all my old 'club' prepared cars Ninco,SCX & Fly are still in a box somewhere.I've been building a ninco layout in the garage, pictures soon!
Good little mixture of turns and straights for the space there!
I'm looking at houses at the moment and "space for a permanent track is high on the list. I am lucky to live near a track at the moment or I'd go nuts.
I've progressed a fair bit since my start in September. I now can manage 9.9 second laps with an NSR Corvette on Melton's 100 foot wood track. The fast guys are doing 9.2 on a slower lap, so there's a way to go - I can cause trouble at least. I'm hoping to do the Group C endurance race they're holding soon, I can do 10.2 laps with the car that'll be entered but I've never done a 45 minute (or however long) stint before so I don't know how my head will cope for that length of time.
I'm looking at houses at the moment and "space for a permanent track is high on the list. I am lucky to live near a track at the moment or I'd go nuts.
I've progressed a fair bit since my start in September. I now can manage 9.9 second laps with an NSR Corvette on Melton's 100 foot wood track. The fast guys are doing 9.2 on a slower lap, so there's a way to go - I can cause trouble at least. I'm hoping to do the Group C endurance race they're holding soon, I can do 10.2 laps with the car that'll be entered but I've never done a 45 minute (or however long) stint before so I don't know how my head will cope for that length of time.
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