tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65002762808833994622020-02-28T19:16:10.194-08:00This Blog documents my attempt at creating a digital wireless slot car system based on the 1:43 format.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6500276280883399462.post-3194781440095511152010-09-01T10:54:00.000-07:002010-09-01T10:54:18.977-07:00

This blog has been suspended and continued as part of my main blog here.

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Hi,This is the second part in building the Arii '67 Fairlady 2000 GT Plastic Kit, the first part can be found here : Arii '67 Fairlady 2000 GT Plastic Kit (I).  Although this is a website about developing a digital 1/43 slot car system, from time to time the 1/32 counterparts are used first to  experiment with some model (slot) car construction ideas and techniques. Hence although the Arii '67

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Hi,After my last post about building a 1/43 Triumph Dolomite Sprint Resin Slot Car Body (I) using polyurethane fastcast resin from Maragon (www.maragon.co.uk). I thought that it would be a good idea to do the same thing using polyurethane resin from a different source.  The different source turned out to be Tiranti (www.tiranti.co.uk) an up market outlet that describe themselves as being a

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Hi,I could have entitled this blog "My First Resin Slot Car Bodies" however I decided to take maximum advantage of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) and give the blog the title that it has above. Anyway I have finally produced some resin slot car bodies as you can see in the Figures 1 and 2  below. Figure 1 :  1/43 Triumph Dolomite Sprint Resin slot car  body. Although the primary aim of

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Hi,I suppose that I should say Happy New Year first of all. Welcome to the year 2010! Lets hope the digital slot car project really moves along this year. I have had the Arii '67 Fairlady 2000 GT Plastic Kit that you see on the right for quite a while now and think that it will make a good subject to practise some of the ideas that I have for car conversions.  Some of the variants of the car

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Lotus Elite - Border Reivers #42 J.Clark-J.Whitmore Le Mans 1959 Figure 1 : IXO Version LMC068

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LOTUS ELITE - EQUIPE LOS AMIGOS #38 GT LE MANS 1959 J. F. MALLE/ J. C. VIDILLES  Figure 1 : IXO Version LMC068        

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After reading about how a 1/24 Tamiya Alfa Romeo - Giulia Sprint GTA Model Kit has been converted into a slot car. I thought I would have a look at what is available in the 1/43 world. I could hardly find anything at all suitable enough for conversion apart from a Solido Alfa Romeo : GT 1300 Junior pictured in Figure 1 below. Figure 1 : The Starline Alfa Romeo : GT 1300 Junior. The idea

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I bought 500ml of 1:1 polyurethane fastcast resin (£6.82 + VAT + PP) today from Maragon (www.maragon.co.uk) an online Arts and Crafts store. The home page appears to be extremely chaotic and seems to use a page generator however, once you locate the search engine on the page it is surprisingly easy to navigate to the product  that you are interested in. Anyway I hope that this product is good as

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My  blog entries: Resin Slot Car Bodies :  Any blog about resin slot car body designing or creating should be found in this section. [16/01/10] 1/43 Triumph Dolomite Sprint Resin Slot Car Body (I) [07/02/10] 1/43 Triumph Dolomite Sprint Resin Slot Car Body (II) Scale Model Car Build : The aim of this project is to investigate some of the scale model building techniques.   [01/01/10] Arii '67

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I attempted to cast my first resin  slot car body today and got the shock of my life when it dawned on me that the resin slot car body that I was about to produce would look nothing like the ones I had seen in the You Tube videos on resin casting. Whoops! After doing some "googling" it occurred to me that there are different types of casting resins and maybe the polyester resin that I had bought

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1. Ford Capri Mk3 3.0S – 1978 British Saloon Car Championship Winner, 3-Litre Class, Gordon Spice ( VA 10804) 2. Ford Capri MkIII - Julius Thurgood/Quickbrew (Top Hat Racing) (VA 10801)     3. Ford Capri 3.0S - 1982 British Saloon Car Championship - Vince Woodman  (VA 10806)

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There is only one adjective that describes this car - "Beautiful" and quite fortunately the scale model car manufacturers Corgi and Vanguard have produced a number of variants of the car as described  below: Corgi VA05312 Triumph Dolomite Sprint : 1978 Production Saloon Car Championship, Gerry Marshall   Figure 1 : Corgi VA05312 Triumph Dolomite Sprint : 1978 Production Saloon Car

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1/43 Custom Resin Slot Cars (Coming Soon)    1/43 Diecast Cars Below are links to 1/43 diecast cars that I would quite like to see as resin slot cars. Le Mans 1959 [01-01-10] (#38) Lotus Elite - Equipe Los Amigos [01-01-10] (#42) Lotus Elite - Border Reivers 1970's British Cars [06-12-09] Ford Capri MK3 3.0S [22-11-09] Triumph Dolomite Sprint  [07-11-09] Hillman Avenger Tiger MK2 1980's

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1. Ford Escort MK3 RS1600i Datapost Longman (Vanguards : VA11000) I have been buying a few things over the last couple of months in anticipation of starting this project and one the things is this 1/43 diecast Ford Escort MK3 RS1600i from Vanguard. Although the diecast model can be picked up for about £15 I got this one in a slightly damaged condition without a box for a few quid.  It seem to

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The Hillman Avenger Tiger MK2 is one of the cars that I would like to model in resin. The 1/43 diecast model on the left , which I bought recently for £15.99 + 3.50 pp is absolutely beautiful and is definitely money well spent. The Reference Number on the Box is VA10404. Production of this vehicle  has been limited to 1000. I really can't wait until the day that I can create a resin

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Below are a list of resources related to slot cars and slot car making in one form or the other. (N.B: Clicking on a link opens the associated website in a new tab): Installing Seep Point Motors - Richard Bardsley (Added 03/11/09) : Site described installing point motors in model railways.  Gerard's Collection of Motor Sport Pictures 1969 - 1974 (Added 08/11/09) : This site features photographs

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Here are some thoughts and ideas that I have had about the project:   Created       Updated                  Title ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [12-12-09] | [12-12-09] | Polyurethane vs Polyester Resin [03-11-09] | [17-01-10] | Water-Based Acrylic Primer? [02-11-09] | [05-12-09] | Point Motors As Lane Changers

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Hi, For some time now I have been thinking about how I am going to paint the resin cars that I build which has led to me doing some research into acrylic (water based) and enamel (oil-based) paints. It seems that oil-based paints contain toxic substances so I would prefer to use acrylic paints. However, a question that has been gnawing away at me for ages is the type of primer to use for

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Hi, Today, I thought that it would be a good idea to do some preliminary research on point motors for use as lane changers. Point motors are commonly used in model railway train sets to remotely control model railway points. In the end I decided to  buy two "PL10E PECO Point Motors with external pin"  from ebay at a cost of £4.65 each plus £1.90 pp.  I bought them now mainly as reference

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The parts of the project so far are: Part (1) The Beginning   "I have been following the digital slot car scene for quite a while now and have finally decided to attempt to construct a wireless 1/43 digital slot car system. In addition to designing a system from scratch I also intend to spend some time documenting the development process and my progress as I go along here......" Part (2) Coming

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Hello and Welcome to my Blog! I have been following the digital slot car scene for quite a while now and have finally decided to attempt to construct a wireless 1/43 digital slot car system. In addition to designing a system from scratch I also intend to spend some time documenting the development process and my progress as I go along here.  Once you delve into the slot car scene it is quite

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