Slots of fun!

[LM14]

I've had a Carrera Digital 1/32 slot set for a few years but never put all of it up at once. It takes a lot of room. Finally committed a room in the basement to it.

16' long, 8' wide at one end and 4' wide at the other. Hill, couple banked turns, 3 places for lane switching and a pit stop area. It's coming along. 68' - 4-3/8" long. It's a lot of fun.

Last weekend we set 2 drone cars at constant speed and 3 of us raced along with the slower cars in the way. The 5 year old grandson loved it! With the digital you can set max speed so he could race without wrecking all the time. Perfect. We ran laps every time he wanted to, which was most of the weekend. His little sister (2) got a controller and we told her one of the drone cars was hers. She thought she was great at it! Oh, to be 2 again.




SPark

[slick4x4]

I know those aren't cheap....
But racing against a 5 year old grandson.... worth every penny !
WAY better than video games !

[SteveCanup]

That is awesome! I've always wanted a racetrack like that....ever since I was 10 years old (and that was a loooong time ago.)

[Alan Mclennan]

Nice Steve, now how about some scenery mate! I'd post a pic of my track, but as usual PB isn't playing the game !

[LM14]

Alan, I sent PB a nasty email to the tech department. Don't waste any time on that first letter, it will just be a robot responding. I sent a really nasty letter to them after getting the robot response and after 4 or 5 days my PB mysteriously started working again. That's happened twice now. Beat them up or you will get nothing fixed. If you wait for them, nothing will happen. Gotta be aggressive with them to get any results.

I told Dianne now it was time to break out the chicken wire, plaster of Paris, scale shrubs, hills and trees. Said I haven't spent half of the cost of the layout yet because it doesn't have all the details the HO train guys put out. She just rolled her eyes and walked off, I think that means she approved the venture. That's how I usually take that response anyway......

SPark

[grump]

Hey Steve, is that the same as "better to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission?" LOL

[Alan Mclennan]

HAHA!, it is working at the moment, track not finished here, was waiting on some lane changes and what nots.....

a bit of road side advertising ..

[Alan Mclennan]

Here's sign I made for mine..........

[Alan Mclennan]

Oh and one for Michelle !

[DCarr]

Alan , that is cool. I like the slick yard art . Are the race cars Falcons or Holdens?

[Alan Mclennan]

there's a few Ford, which you have seen in person and one holden belonging to our eldest grandson and what came with the track

[DCarr]

What did you make those sweet guard rails out of ? Looks like you can really scrape some paint on those!

[Alan Mclennan]

The metal guards are made out of thin Aluminium, I cut strips of Aluminium and placed it over a flat piece of steel with 2 x 5 mm bars welded to it,
then had a block of timber with 2 x grooves cut in it and gradually worked along it hitting it down with a hammer. was taking about 20 minutes to do 600 mm lengths.

the Detroit barrier are plaster of paris..

[Michelle]

Oh and one for Michelle !

That looks just like the tin man water tower here in town. Its a very impressive set up. I love the guard rails.

[shipwrecked]

This is awesome. My dad had a set in the early 80's- when he was in his late 20's/early 30's. I remember him setting it up in the living room and playing with it for a few days. It was not a great set because the cars would freeze up a lot. He had fun with it.

[LM14]

For anyone that hasn't got the joy of playing with digital slot cars, you have no idea what you are missing. 2 lanes, you can change lanes on certain sections of track or stay in the lane you are already in. You can change lanes multiple times a lap. With a 2 lane track we can run 6 different cars with 6 different controllers plus 2 cars that just circulate at a pre determined speed (set by you) that act as moving road blocks. They can even be set at different speeds from each other. You can set the top speed of each individual car, set the amount of braking when you let go of your speed controller for each individual car, set fuel tank capacities and more. You will need to pit to get a tank refill, or get a flat. It's not your old slot car set. They are crazy!

Alan, love the W-Beam guardrails! Gotta make some of that.

SPark

[Alan Mclennan]

Steve I'll get some pic's of the set up I use to make it.

[LM14]

I have a bead roller. I can make it with no problem.

[Alan Mclennan]

I have a bead roller. I can make it with no problem.

A Bead roller !....... don't you mean a weed roller, were you a Hippy at some stage ?

[LM14]

I had long hair in the 70's, but I have a bead roller for stiffening metal panels in race cars. I have too many odd things around to even start this conversation.......