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Double wammy Lamborghini...

I am thinking of a double wammy here.Both get these race worthy and see what DASC can do with the four wheel drive and monstrous motor they sport.Vinyl Peel'n'Stick from Patto for the...

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Delicatezza italiana

Well, this is my first topic in the scratch building section. My original plan was to finalize my track first before starting with scratch building (again, after a ten year spell) but staring at a few...

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vac form windows for Scalex mini

Does anyone make theseBuilt a mini up from the old shells pendles had...well slot city....but they come sans glass.

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I may have stumbled onto something?

I am in the process of building a plastic chassis out of a donor car and reinforcing and building up using bits of odd plastic. So I need to glue bits of plastic together. I am using superglue and...

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Lancia D20 C Le Mans 1953

Hello All,Again a new slot car model for my collection of historic Le Mans racing cars.In 1953 the -Scuderia Lancia- entered race with 4 identic built up racing sports cars.However no one of them could...

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my take on creating rust

rather than bulking out my rat rod bus thread , I thought I would show how I replicated rust in a separate thread. having been inspired by jsl's rat racers I spent a while on youtube and thought I'd...

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Revell Nissan Rally Raid

Hopefully somebody out there can help me.I'm looking for either an unbuilt or built or converted Revell easykit of the Mcrae/Thorner Nissan Navara Rally Raid Dakar car from 2004/05.Any clues as to...

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A bit to realistic... :'(

http://www.racingsportscars.com/wm/photo/1...=&mode=NullSo, I got the car. And it looked far better than expected.. Only problem was the lack of varnish.Somewhere my mind slipped......and I didn't...

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Retro Racer

Here is my latest car for retro class racing. A 1963 Ford Galaxie with a scratchbuilt brass and piano wire chassis, it has a central pivot and sliding pans. The motor is a TSRF Falcon, guide and gears...

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Paint Removal from plastic kits & Klear?

I just stripped a Scaleauto car with Isopropyl Alcohol 99.9% pure with an old toothbrush and it worked a treat!I have read on this forum that it reacts with plastic, but it worked fantastic for me, as...

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Scratch build in paper

So I've had brass chassis laid around for a while, and I happened to be looking through a folder on my hard drive that had a load of caricature oversize paper cars from a Japanese site I found some...

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Lotus 30

I fancied a little Lotus 30 as there was a resin body for sale on eBay. I decided to try and do some cockpit detail so tested a side-wider chassis from Penelope Pitlane and to my surprise it fitted...

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Microprocessor controller

While posting here on SlotForum about some car builds in Scratch Building I thought I may as well share with you my scratch built hand controller. I hope this is the most appropriate forum... I’m sure...

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Mark 2 Jaguar

This is an ongoing piece of work. I have some details such as number plates and lights to do yet but you can see my progress so far.The body is a resin repop of the Ocar repop of the slotclassic body....

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the angle of dangle...

my next little project will sit on an old scalextric tr7 chassis. not ideal but it getting to slim pickings in my box o' bits and its going to get pretty chopped about anyway. to gain a bit of...

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!963 STP Novi

My latest project, a 1963 STP Novi. It has a much modified Penelope Pitlane Chassis with a rattle plate, MRRC 30K slimline motors, Avantslot gears, Pendle wheels and tyres. and a Slot.it deep guide.Tony

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blown the whole years budget..

I was only thinking the other day that I haven't bought a car , kit , scrapper , donor or anything for ages (not that I haven't got enough "to do's" for a couple of lifetimes) , then low and behold I...

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Scale drivers

Why are so many of the drivers supplied with RTR cars so small, or malformed, or out of proportion?I guess so they can fit in the space left over but even upper bodies seem minuscule.Anyone suggest a...

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die casts

came across this http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/National-Motor-M...=item5b0d60a268 and thought what an awesome slot it would make (sidewinder in the boot..trunk for those over there...already has steering...

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Stabo Mercedes 608 conversions

Have made a start on what I intend as a series of truck conversions, using the excellent Stabo Mercedes 608 as a base. I'll not be using trucks in otherwise good condition for these, so no need for the...

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