Hello, to all readers!

The 1/32 slotcar world is getting a brand new model really soon!!!
And it will be a young LMP car, being the Oreca07 as mentioned in the topics title.


The introduction

We are building this pre-production model, to become the WEC LMP2 car from Team Signature (better known as Alpine A470) as raced at SPA 2019.
"We" being Steven Verelst (3D designer), Tamar Nelwan (Decal Designer and more) and myself (Just the guy that hopefully gets it all together at the end,  to have a beautiful car to show and fast enough to win).
We hope to have this car ready to participate at Rockingham for the next 6hrs DiSCA WEC event.

   

I will allready show you a few pictures into this project, as this all started a few weeks ("months") ago.


First things first - 3D model

The first step of this project is to design a 3D model, which would be printable.

   

Steven doing an axcellent job and still learning and perfecting his 3D modelling skills, gave us our first "test car".
This "test body" is actually designed to become something else then the Oreca07 that we are talking about at the moment.
But that will be for another time i'm afraid, can't tell to much about it now.
Just that this body is a bit wider then the Oreca07 we are designing (DiSCA WEC regulations).
I had the privilege of building this test car, we decided to make our own little version of the Dragonspeed Oreca07 testing at Daytona,
so it would represent our smaller scaled world a bit better.

   

Why this test car you may wonder!?
Well you can only tell so much from a picture, and this time the picture was a 3D model.

You actually need to have something in your hands, to feel and see the model and her curves!
(This sounds like it came straight out of a romantic novell, sorry).
And our own designed chassis needs to be tested, just to see if our ideas will actually work.


Phase 2 - Tweaking the 3D model and more ...

After we've build and tested the test car on the beautifull Ninco Suzuka track at SRC Eindhoven (Best, NL),
we noticed a few details that could use a bit more attention.
The things that will make it a lot easier for future costumers, to build this model into a stunning race car.
So for Steven it was back to the drawingboard and start tweaking his model.

At this point it was time for Tamar to start creating the decalset we would need to replicate the Team Signature Oreca07.
Just a "rough sketch" to start with was more then enough, but we received something a lot more then just a rough sketch!

   


Current Phase

At this point Steven tweaked the body a whole lot, it was nearly a complete redesign!
Tamar and myself encouraged Steven day after day, to tweak this thing and redesign another.
But I'm proud to say, it all payed off.

The next picture shows how the Oreca07 body, probably will be as a model kit.

   

I could write a lot more on were we actually stand at the moment with this build.
But what better way then to just let pictures do the talking!
* Prefitting the livery design on the car (Tamar)
* Vacformed and painted interior, driver P. Thiriet
* Primers and colors (Tamiya spray can)
* Basic color scheme done

         

                                               

         

Well, that's it for now.
Hope you allready enjoyed reading/viewing this post.
More to come real soon!

Kind Regards Tom

This is another case of SCX being economical with the truth but, before we get into that let's have a look at the most successful single season for an F1 car to date - 1988 and the total dominance of the McLaren Honda MP4/4.
                                                                             
The car took 15 victories from 16 races, including ten 1-2 finishes and Alain Prost finished 1st or 2nd in the 14 races he finished. It also set pole position in 15 of the 16 races (including a record 13 for Ayrton Senna), locked out the front row in 12 races and also set 10 fastest race laps. It would have been 16 wins out of 16 if Senna hadn't tripped over Jean-Louis Schlesser while lapping him at Monza. Prost ended the season with more points but, due to the quirky scoring system at the time, Senna became world champion with 8 wins to Prost's 7.

At the time of writing it still holds the record as the most dominant single season car with a winning percentage of 93.8%. The Mercedes W07 came close to  it in 2016 with 19 wins in 21 races (90.5%) and we should not be too surprised if the record finally falls to Mercedes this year.

In 1990 Exin Scalextric released a model of the MP4/4 catalogue #8326. It carried race number 11 which was the Prost version. Hoorah! a successful F1 car to race. As usual cigarette branding was omitted which was a pity as the real Marlboro livery was second only to the JPS one in eye catching appeal. They even wimped out of using the barcode livery which was used in the German GP at the time and just put fictitious McLaren branding on it. Apart from that it was a cracking model and highly competitive in its day. In fact, together with the same make's Ferrari F1 87 it was the mainstay of non magnet club F1 racing for a very long time.

During this period the Spanish and English firms, although separate entities, would often work together. They would swap bodies and each would then fit the wheels, motor, guide etc for their own country. So it was with the MP4/4, the bodies were sent to the U.K. and it was announced in the Scalextric catalogue #31 with a list number of C462. It was tampo printed rather than stickered as the Spanish ones were and carried Senna's #12.
       

At this point things took a bizarre turn. The Spanish version was available for less than one year while the English version was never officially released at all and the bodies were (allegedly) either returned to Spain or destroyed. Now why would a sought after version of the most successful F1 car of all time be withdrawn from sale so soon? There are several theories about this but the most popular and credible one is that somebody forgot to ask McLaren's permission and/or neglected to pay the license fee. Exin were notoriously cavalier in this department and had a long history of sailing close to the wind.

Exin were loath to junk the expensive moulds though so they just repainted it as three different, largely fictitious, Indy cars and retrieved their set up costs that way. As for the 'destroyed/returned' English version, within six months large numbers of them surfaced at swapmeets around the country! One Scottish dealer of my acquaintance had more than 100 of them for sale at Milton Keynes the following spring. The back door at Margate must have been very busy that year.

Now, to return to the original title of this thread - SCX 64270 McLaren MP4/6. In 2009 SCX launched ' a tribute to a legend' in their vintage range and released the MP4/6 of 1991 in which Senna won his third and final world championship. It was complete with the correct #1 on the nose and a Senna liveried driver's helmet and came in the obligatory fancy box at an eye watering retail price of £67.99. Slot cars in general hadn't even reached the £30 price level at that time! Perhaps they had paid the license fee this time.
                    
Unfortunately it was nothing more than a re liveried MP4/4 from 1990. Why couldn't they just leave well alone and label it as the original? It was a pretty good car in the first place so why tell porky pies? Presumably they were trying to cash in on the Senna mystique but few people were fooled and it mostly languished on shop shelves before being sold off at a discount over the next few years. The originals from 1990 are still relatively plentiful and well worth purchasing if you come across one. The Scalextric version does carry a price premium but don't pay too much though, they are nowhere near as rare as some folks would have you believe.

I'm Tom from Belgium, Lier.

I can say a whole lot in this introduction but I will keep it short for now.
You will have to find out yourself!

The things I can say to keep it short;

I've been into slotcar racing for about 12years in total, had a small 15 year break after our female species got my attention at some point!!!

I'm into building modelcars, that also can actually race aswell and are not just shelfqueens.
A good friend of mine has his own little 3DP Slotcar thingie going on, called SVworkz or something!
Which provides me the best oppertunity to build unique (at the moment) and pre-production cars,
and to be a part of the production process from A to Z aswell.

I'm not a clubracer at the moment anymore, as i'm more into the digital part of slotracing (Slotit - Oxygen)
and their are not much to none digital tracks in Belgium, but that could change in the near future.
But I like to participate in the DiSCA events as much as possible, with some succes if I may say so myself.

That's it for now, thank you for reading.

Kind Regards Tom

At the end of the 70's Lancia/FIAT needed a replacement for the Lancia Stratos and the FIAT 131 Abarth which had represented the group in the World Rally Championship. The decision was made to base the new car on the Lancia Montecarlo (which had been named in honour of the Stratos success in Rallye Monte-Carlo). Significant changes produced the car that overcame the limitations of rear-wheel-drive to compete well with the likes of the all-wheel-drive Audi Quattro.

Although the Rally did not capture the hearts of fans as much as the Stratos, it does have an enthusiastic following. One of these admirers decided to design a newer version of the Rally whilst retaining the original concept of simplicity. Being a slot-car fan, he has put his design into production.  Although it is a 1:32 scale product, I believe it is the only re-imagined Lancia Rally to go beyond the artist's impression stage.

The car came to my attention in a thread by the designer 'NikS' on SFI, where it was used as the development mule for a brush-less motor installation. I asked the designer if I could buy a copy and below is the outcome of that acquisition. The bodyshell is 3D printed by Shapeways and that does have implications in terms of the smoothness of the body. Its a ground up design including the motor-pod and guide - a proper job!

The build led to a dynamic looking and great running slot car...     https://www.rally037.com/home.html
Martini-striped version to follow.

Leo

   

   



More info:-   https://www.slotforum.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=189453&hl=%2Blancia+%2Brally

SO over the years I have managed to accumulate sets. Started off with the desire to get the same set that started me off way back in 64 - Scalextric GP 33

I have a set that I believe may be the last of its kind - so may be the rarest of them all?  You tell me:

Distributed by Beatties and Gamages in the 60's this set was only available on Mail order outside of the uk (this set came from Canada many years ago) . STill has all its docs and cardboard cover. Anyone else ever seen this or know somebody who has one?

   

   

   

   

   


Only set that ever carried the Triumph and Sunbeam as the set cars.

Hi all! 

I’m Steven, 31 years old and a former RC-racer from Belgium. I quit RC-racing a couple of years ago when it became too difficult to combine with my job.
After a while, I realized that I started missing the spannering and the racing spirit. All of that changed when a friend of mine took me to a local slot race track.

Yeah, there it was, everything I had been looking for: A new challenge!

Almost 2 years into racing right now, and learned a lot. The first event I was spectating, the DISCA 6 Hours of Eindhoven back in 2017. After seeing this, I got the idea to develop a car for this myself. What was a hobby quickly became an official secondary occupation. That is how SV Workz came into existence.

Hope to share off my work here on the forum, and look to other nice cars! 

Kind regards,
Steven

Just throwing this out there if anyone has already made these a good runner and can share here their tips and experience.

For some reason I really like the look of this car.  To me it looks like a fun car to race fast, but  I try not to use magnets with cars on my track to try and save the cars and scenery in case of a high speed deslot.  The trouble is, take the magnets out and it behaves so poorly.

Standard without magnets on my track it will struggle to break 27s.  Best time I got was 26.959
It chatters and is so tail happy.  Added some weight to the back, 12g either side settled it a bit.  Chatter was gone but still tail happy.
Time with this setup was improved to 25.461


Did some searching, but the only tuning I could see for this car said that Flyslot rubber was not the best and to replace them. 
I had a setup that was close enough to knock out something quickly.  So poured myself a quick set of silicones and did a quick true up.

Big jump up.  Now lap time is down to 20.944

I  am sure I can still improve with this tire.  As it is now it is still thicker than the original and can be cutdown some more - should improve pickup reducing the rotating mass of the tires.

Would like to see this under 20 seconds a lap.  Anyone else have experience removing the mags from Flyslot and making it run well?

   

We produced some rather nice SlotRacer Online business cards for the UK Slot Car Festival last month and have some left to hand out at swap meets and slot car shows later in the year.

If you’d like some of the cards to distribute at your club or business, I will post you out an envelope with some in. Just send me a personal message here.

(inexpensive) Scalextric digital bits are fairly hard to come by on the continent.


A local guy has a right-hand pit entry (!) that he is willing to sell fairly cheaply but he doesn't have the exit.

While I know the easiest thing is to wait for an exit to pop up I was just mulling over other options that could be used.

Ideally the solution would be completely reversible and even more ideally not be a lot of work. :-)

I run ARC PRO so keeping the lanes separate would be important. I don't think analog compatibility is vital as when I use digital bits I try to race digital only but given ARC PRO's need for keeping the lanes separate I am thinking analog compatibility would likely come automatically.

So far the best solution I can think of is using a curved lane changer either a right-hand curve from In to Out (when following the typical clockwise direction of a Scalextric layout this would move the car on the inside to the outside) or a left-hand curve going Out to In (again, given the clockwise direction moving the car from the outer most to inside lane) .

The latter I can see only being useful in conjunction with R1 curves given that the curved lane changers are R2.

See pictures...


So two questions:
As the curved lane changers will be set to permanently move the car what do I have to do to  keep the flippers from moving?
Since I don't need to use the sensor straights they won't have power so will it suffice to us a bit of tape/blue tack to keep the flipper in poisition?

Is there maybe an alternative I am missing? (oops that's a third question...)

I had thought about the old straight chicanes that are cheap as chips and doing some sort of mod to get the two lanes to join to one but it all looked rather messy and I do use cars with deeper blades...

I am not against making something out of wood but I doubt the effort is worth it...

Thanks!

LATEST incarnation of the venerable Slot it Lola B80.