just a couple of recent builds

my ideas some crazy

   
         
We're back at the Barn on Wednesday for our second Nascar & Legends Wednesday evening of 2025, with non-stop excitement and also ideal to learn the ropes. Indeed, we do insist that new racers get one or more of these events under their belts before progressing on to the GT Championship and the autumn Digital Saturdays.

Doors open at 6.30pm for practice and digital driving school. Racers are allocated to six teams for the Nascar club car team race - the allocation being seeded to give us a nice, close 60 minutes of racing over three or four sessions. Cars are swapped between teams after each session - the winners swapping with the sixth place team etc. The aim is to get as many laps as possible.

After medals have been awarded to the winners and team photos taken on the podium, we move on to the Legends pairs race. The Pioneer Legends are not club cars, so you'll need a car or an invite to share one. It's a quick-fire format, 8-minute heats with a driver change at half-way and the teams with the best scores qualifying directly for the 8-minute feature race. Before that, there's an 8-minute last-chance semi-final to fill the remaining place(s) in the feature. That usually takes us up to just after 9.30pm.

Entry is £3 for the whole evening's racing (£2 under-16s) and there is a 2025 season ticket for our digital events available (see here).

We ask that racers aged 13 and under bring a responsible adult with them.

Simon has designed us this track to race on...

   

                           
I always had an affinity for the '41 Willys. I built a plastic model of the 'Stone, Woods and Cook' A-gasser as a youngster and would just stare at it and imagine driving and wrenching on it! Maybe my parents didn't realize it but dreaming about this and other things kept me out of trouble, lol.

I found this 'printed' body and bits on eeebay. I think it's my 1st experience with this type of manufacturing process. The 'stepped' layers were a royal pain to eliminate. Metal files had to be used. Only later did I learn acetone soaked cloth (?) could be used to smooth it. The chassis is brass. A Slottecknic digital chip and home made LED lights were added. The colors and graphics are spurious. Acrylic floor polish gives the decals protection and makes everything nice and shiney!

7-friends braved the deep snow in Toronto and gathered for an evening of great food, relaxing, and racing.

Thank you to Jim for being a wondeful host!

Up first were slow motor Sports Cars (14k). The twist to this race? We all had to bring cars with a max track width of 50mm. That made for an interesting field of cars.

   
   

Pre war is one of our regular classes. This was a bracket race. Slow and steady wins. Any lap under 8-seconds doesn't count. A gentleman's race.

   
   

RevoSlot GT class is always a club favourite.

   
   

The evening ended with Classic LeMans 18k. Virtually a stock class (no NSR, Slot.It, or Thunderslots allowed). It was actually a relaxing race after the RevoSlot mayhem.

   
   

Thank you very kindly for looking.
Ken

Some reasonable discounts on Scalextric cars at the moment if anybody is interested. LINK

Ayrton Senna Lotus 98 is particularly cheap.

Hi,
as some of you know, I had been working on a model of the Agera for our club and printed a bunch of bodies for members.  This progressed a bit from the initial version which had been printed in shall we say a rather brittle resin, to something that can take the abuse a bit more.  To mark the difference I changed it to more of a wide-body and cleaned it up some.

I made a short video on the method I used to create the 3D model in case anyone finds it useful.  I am no expert in Blender and am sure there can be better ways, but the few steps used were economical for me to learn and could be used to make the model quickly.



Link to the Thingiverse file in the description and also here Agera Widebody  Although be great if you can watch the video and leave a like too

My paint jobs are just passable, but luckily one of the club members is donating his time to paint the bodies for some members.


   

The cars are now used in a one-make race every 3 months using the Plafit A132 chassis.

Evening everyone ( or whatever time it is in your particular bit of the world!)

I have recently acquired 4 of the lovely Carrera classic NASCARS.   3 used, 1 new.

They look awesome,  are very well built ( strong!) but of course the standard Carrera tyres are hopeless once the nasty magnet is removed.    So.....please can anyone give me a nudge in the right direction for replacement tyres.  We race on Scalextric Sport track,  4 lane analogue, proper DS set up.   Based in the UK, Surrey don't you know, so almost posh!  Yeah, right 

Any help on sizes or what you guys have used much appreciated! 

Thanks, 
Pip

A nice turnout for the first Slot Rally of 2025.

   
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Cars spread right across the classes:

• 5 Back2Basics cars
  
• 3 Standard Class
  
• 6 ProStock Class
  
• 6 Open Class 
  

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Four cars each and three Rally stages meant a full evening of non-stop action...once we got properly started as we seemed to take a while to get organised.


   

Comparison Chart

   

There's a lot more video this time, still getting to grips with the GoPro settings but it gives you the chance to see the cars from angles impossible to see by eye.

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Next week should be fast and furious as it's Sports followed by F1

       Here's a Pyro '32 Pierce Arrow Phaeton kit being adapted to slot car use. It is a work in progress. The wheels and tires are very nice items sourced from Pendleslot. I bought a 'boatload' of wheels and tyres from them for future projects. Stay tuned for a few more pictures!