Sunday 5 October 2014

Pro Karts - finally in the right scale!

Back at the Slot Car Festival in May, I bought a couple of pro kart kits from Steve Ward at Penelope Pitlane.  Go Karts have been available for slot car circuits for fifty years but never in the correct 1/32 scale.  Steve Ward has managed this with a tiny motor driving the rear wheels with a belt rather than usual cogs.  The kit comes complete with everything needed except paint and decals.


It's all fits together well.  I sprayed one in black to go with Lotus decals, and the other in yellow to go with Shell.  I made my own decals and printed them out on clear and white decal paper, depending on the background they were going on to.


Here's how they turned out:




Andy confiscated my 1/14 scale Ninco Go Karts so that I couldn't practice before his Grand Prix in a couple of months.  Consequently, I can't do a comparison photo, but here they are on the track.