I got this, it's based on a captive spring as a screw driving a peg you can stick in any matchbox. But what cool knock offs are likely to fit? I have a 3d plastic pen but my printer lived it's life and like we parted ways.What other Speedway sets, interchangable or stand alone do you like? RC racing on a shop track somewhere?What are you burning laps on anon?
>>11876319I had to look this up to see what you meant.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NFX3yZ8MDoSo it turns the entire spring? Kek seems like a lot of energy but hey, it works pretty good. I assume it's loud.
>>11877152It is slightly noisy, you have to lube it."racing" is more fractions, you can get ahead with skill or fall behind with bad cornering an little.YES. There is one long ass floppy 1/4" spring and it's the whole length. It's more a display you could interact with, it's being built into a model scene for what was going to be a train.
I want to see all kinds of racing shit though. It's all fun as hell.
>>11877601Now you've got me thinking about what one that I had as a kid. I think it was something like this, but perhaps it had a crossover part.I'm jealous of anyone who had a fucking loop de loop as a kid, some of the tracks are giant.
>RC racing on a shop track somewhere?I wish, the nearest RC track is nearly 3 hours away and they don't want 1/8 scale cars on them, I started building track on my property but gave up, too much work to do alone and without a tractor to cart all the dirt around
>>11877771Some of those sets are like $40 on ebay, it's not a lot. They're fun as fuck but also cheapo modern temu ones are fine. It's not a complex technology.I had the Apex caynon set that had one loop and a pendulum pit so that was some shit. Why not get one? They aren't huge really- not fuckin like 1:32 I race mostly or 1:24 where you need a legit basement of space.>>11877823A lot of guys form up clubs. Check other race tracks and see who's into it or put up an old school flyer?I'd love to get enough people into a racing general on the regular but we'll see.
https://www.thevillagesrccarclub.com/This is an indy club that seems to have formed up. If you have the space you can divy up like track manager, lights and electric stuff, computer duty...Then pick your club night schedule and begin contacting other clubs for like formal visits and racing. It's that easy (on the internet in text).
>>11877771You need this and like two friends and a 30 rack of beers for an entire night of something to do.
This was mine. There was a better one from the same company but I was perfectly happy with this.And you can always search out the interchangable ones if you get a few of them... or I guess you could leave it all in a box and charge someone 3x the price in 10 years lol.
Choro Q/Penny Racers
>>11877929I got back into RC at the worst timing it seems, some old guy started up an RC shop in my town a few years ago but sadly died shortly after otherwise I'm sure he would have been a great source of info.>>11877949I have this one still but haven't busted it out in a good decade, only photo I can find online of it
>>11878233Those were cool coin op toys. I remember the machine had a few "collections" like Rally Sport and shit with a group of 3 cars in it, it was in the advertising on the front.>>11878329Good company, if you feel it, bust it out. It might ignite something for you. Those were pretty fast too.
Tomy should've brought this over.
>>11879204I can't find the AFX set that it was based on but there was a million of them. If they honestly didn't get a little anime with it then they lost a huge market.The major loss is nobody made a "convert your toy to slot car" system, like "Pull the wheels off and clamp on this subframe" or some shit. The Matchbox on at least you can use anything with a thumbtack taped or glued to the bottom.For today, I'd pump out a He Man, Barbie, and Paw Patrol Race Set and sit back and collect lol.
bros... I took the vac forming pill.I'm in love with this. I'm making slot car bodies when I get a little better but I could legit cast with some clay like this. Lexan the toy, make a clay model. Make a negative mold. Pour in metal.Might be shitty but it might work.
>>11878098I had a variation of this as a kid but it wasn't A-Team branded. It was just a cop car and some sort of red sports car like a Ferrari or a Lambo. Getting cars to U turn and sideswipe each other while drifting was awesome.>>11878329And I got one of these when I was much older second hand for a steal. I think it was $10 or something.cleamed up the track and had fun with some buddies drinking and racing. Good times.
>>11879649Half the sets are other sets or kitbashing in disguise.That second one is really nice for $10. You can make it all back betting with the same frinds too.
This was "painted" with thick permanent marker, one of those silver paint pens, and idk what the brown glue was. I cleaned it today. It's a lexan slot car body.1/2
2/2several chemicals and time with a rag rubbing later
Creating a clay bucking mold from a lexan body...
With these controllers, normall 7-10 band is stock. This one is made with 17 and sensitivity knob along with "brake" amount (when you let off the trigger the current is flipped and the motor uses "reverse" to brake around turns.30-band is the real expensive smooth one, beginning at $240 or so.
>>11879242But I want the machines.
>>11876319I'm probably one of the very few people who even remember that Hot Wheels tried to get into hobby level kit car racing with the K.I.T Racing toyline similar to Mini 4WD but 1/64 scale. Apparently these were imported from either Takara or Tomy (this was before their merger). Very short-lived but the original Japanese version Tomica Bit Racer apparently continued on for a few yeasr. I had good memories with this set but I only had the one car that was included in the track set (pic-related) and my dumbass young self destroyed the car with ease because it was a bit fragile and ended up with nothing to race with.
Did anyone have a boat that could move as a kid? I dreamed of getting one but never did. I think closest I got was putting a friends gi joe boat in the water with a sail lol.
>>11882383There's always printed and painted bodies on parts car frames.That looks cool, I don't remember it but I'd definitely have wanted it. Making frames with rollers would be tricky if they were serious about getting hobby people attention.
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I'll cut the body tomorrow, maybe on the low side. Position is up to the racer, in slot cars the aerodynamics are kinda negligible aside from spoilers/wings.
>>11882462I did. It was a cruise ship we found at a rummage sale, with a blue hull and a white superstructure. Was meant to be ballasted with a couple of C or D batteries that ran a little propeller, though most of the time we didn't have batteries in it in the bathtub. Can't find any pictures of it on the Interwebs.
>>11883234I wish RC boat racing wasn't such a money gimmick. With scale racing there is kind of a top end. I mean I'm looking at press dies and tooling but other than that It's hard to spend $500 on it and the most expensive shit just once.
