Elevating the track

Plenty of cutting today, with mask and goggles to keep the nasty MDF dust at bay.  The track now has MDF supporting all the elevated places, rather than just balancing the track directly onto supports, and I've fitted all the barriers - going with silver on the corners, alternate red and white on the elevated sections, and ditched the original Scalextric ones in the strange orange colour.

I wanted the far back corner higher than the 180 turn in front of it, so that they could eventually be landscaped together into the same hill.  This made the approach from the left rather steep, so I elevated the start of the incline and raised the hairpins to match it.  Which actually means the use of the hairpins makes more sense i.e. to climb a hill in a confined space.

I also cut MDF sections around the hairpins to allow the cars to slide their tails right out without coming un-slotted.  Above is Starsky giving it some gas on the second corner.  Below is a video of the Audi Quattro testing the hairpin sections - much more tail happy now I've removed the magnet completely.  (If you're reading this in an e-mail, the embedded YouTube code might not work, so click the link at the bottom of the e-mail and it will work in your browser).








Finally I drilled some holes in the table struts to tidy away the wires.