CARRERA SLOT CAR TRACK
I grew up around HO slots. Primarily aurora A/FX pancake motored cars in the 1970s. Space being at a premium, i decided to stick w HO scale. I did a plastic sectional 4 lane HO track that i made to look like a routered track. I used Tomy AFX , soldered the rail ends together, and used plastiweld solvent adhesive to glue everything, and epoxy to fill in the gaps, i even countersunk the attach screws and epoxied over their heads. Then i used N scale model train roadbed cork for the roadbed edges, along with black lexan for retaining wall barriers. No more clickety clack around the track everything runs smooth. This was a lot of work so i did the bedding and sanding in short sections every week until i could paint the whole thing.
I used dupont grey laquer primer for painting the track and lexan barriers, then painted the barriers white. Springtime green felt was spray glued on for grass, and covers the cork roadbed bringing the grass up and level with the edge of the track. I used paint markers to color each lane its prospective color. I also painted the controller plug in plates to match the lane each one is wired to. Maybe theres some ideas here you can use.
The white U shaped thing over the track is the homemade lap timer. It uses 4 infra red LED emitters, there are 4 infra red LED collectors imbedded into the track surface. Its lap timer runs on windows 95 and is a trakmate freeware software program. I also wired in 4 22volt transformers. One for each lane, so no power surges when a car flies off. The controllers are parma 60 ohm 3 wire, and the track is wired for dynamic brakes
I used 1/8" plexiglas for a clear retainer around the table to catch flying cars. It does pretty good most of the time. Table is designed to fold up flat against the wall of the garage when not in use. Of course being 1/32" scale yours are too big to fold for storage. Pix of my track below. My little boy is maybe 1/&1/2 in those pix.
BTW dge467 i love the 1/32 scale cordoba and charger. If i was racing 1/32 scale id have to paint one up like the red 77 charger SE i owned years ago. Seeing all these pix is a treat and an inspiration to me. I intended to put trees, HO scale lighting, and grandstands and such on my layout but never got to it. Once it reached this point we started racing every friday night.
We run Tomy AFX SRT chassis on friday nights ( supermodified class) and old aurora pancake chassis for a random vintage night (modified class). All body mods are allowed. No lexan bodies. You can run any tires, windings, and magnets you want. I even have 4 identical stock SRT chassis with tomy camaro iroc bodies and we run an iroc night.
I grew up around HO slots. Primarily aurora A/FX pancake motored cars in the 1970s. Space being at a premium, i decided to stick w HO scale. I did a plastic sectional 4 lane HO track that i made to look like a routered track. I used Tomy AFX , soldered the rail ends together, and used plastiweld solvent adhesive to glue everything, and epoxy to fill in the gaps, i even countersunk the attach screws and epoxied over their heads. Then i used N scale model train roadbed cork for the roadbed edges, along with black lexan for retaining wall barriers. No more clickety clack around the track everything runs smooth. This was a lot of work so i did the bedding and sanding in short sections every week until i could paint the whole thing.
I used dupont grey laquer primer for painting the track and lexan barriers, then painted the barriers white. Springtime green felt was spray glued on for grass, and covers the cork roadbed bringing the grass up and level with the edge of the track. I used paint markers to color each lane its prospective color. I also painted the controller plug in plates to match the lane each one is wired to. Maybe theres some ideas here you can use.
The white U shaped thing over the track is the homemade lap timer. It uses 4 infra red LED emitters, there are 4 infra red LED collectors imbedded into the track surface. Its lap timer runs on windows 95 and is a trakmate freeware software program. I also wired in 4 22volt transformers. One for each lane, so no power surges when a car flies off. The controllers are parma 60 ohm 3 wire, and the track is wired for dynamic brakes
I used 1/8" plexiglas for a clear retainer around the table to catch flying cars. It does pretty good most of the time. Table is designed to fold up flat against the wall of the garage when not in use. Of course being 1/32" scale yours are too big to fold for storage. Pix of my track below. My little boy is maybe 1/&1/2 in those pix.
BTW dge467 i love the 1/32 scale cordoba and charger. If i was racing 1/32 scale id have to paint one up like the red 77 charger SE i owned years ago. Seeing all these pix is a treat and an inspiration to me. I intended to put trees, HO scale lighting, and grandstands and such on my layout but never got to it. Once it reached this point we started racing every friday night.
We run Tomy AFX SRT chassis on friday nights ( supermodified class) and old aurora pancake chassis for a random vintage night (modified class). All body mods are allowed. No lexan bodies. You can run any tires, windings, and magnets you want. I even have 4 identical stock SRT chassis with tomy camaro iroc bodies and we run an iroc night.
