Short track

[Dangermouse]

[HomeRacingWorld]

Pretty cool. How is the bigger project going?

[Dangermouse]

I should be painting the road surface of the big track next weekend though I think it may be 2 weeks away - working on some hills along the back straight and the painted backdrop at the moment which requires me to climb over the layout.

I am thinking about maybe an abandoned airfield theme for this little track. Paint a runway down the middle maybe a taxi way and a little service road, any where else will be dirt and weeds. Might put a shack or two in as well.

David

[WB2]

[Dangermouse]

Making some progress


It is running now - good fun little track and lets me test out the new paint for my big track.

[Dangermouse]

Got busy last night and this morning - ah holidays :)

[MrAdept]

Hi DM,

that is looking good. I need to do something on this scale to get to grips with routing.

Mark

[Dangermouse]

Good fun project Mark, I wouldn't recommend crossing over the track, for the first time you make one - bit of a pain to solder all the jumper wires

cheers
David

[Wolseley Hornet]

Great! I love it!

Just a bit of AC2 wiring now, and you can have two cars following each other around :D

David.

[Dangermouse]

[racer6583]

Nice little rally track what is the dimension?
I just might give a small wood track a go, looks like yours is a fun track to run.

[Dangermouse]

around 4 feet x 3 feet - good fun to run on and hopefully small enough to take to a friends as well

cheers
DM

[racer6583]

thanks DM didn't understand the 1200 x 900 I think I'll make one around june and see what I can do never used a router I'll contact those nutty guys at slot car corner and see what they recommend as for a bit and see how much their braid is, or copper tape if they have any.

[Dangermouse]

fixed it up in the original post now - forgot that you guys aren't metric.

I am thinking if I make another track if I didn't go for an abandoned airport then I would use a car park theme. I would set out the carpark first - maybe put things like trolley return bays, a loading point maybe a rubbish area and then draw the track around these - using them as obstacles for lots of little loops.

cheers
David

[JimD]

Neat!

Question - Are you routing that free head or using a nailing guide strip, or some other type of guide?

Looks like fun!

Jim