Andy and I made our annual pilgrimage to Gaydon to the newly-renamed British Motor Museum for the UK Slot Car Festival.
Highlights included:
A micro slot car layout in a briefcase...
A brilliantly detailed 1/32 slot car store, complete with Scalextric box sets in the windows. I'd read about this the weekend before in Slot Car Magazine and got a chance to chat with the builder at the Festival...
A slot car Wall of Death...
Additional vehicles to the Italian Job set I've blogged about in previous show reports.
A huge Minic Motorways layout with automated trains and vehicles...
A Mad Max truck conversion from a Revell plastic kit...
...with an ingenious method of taking power from the track and powering the truck units rear axle with additional gearing to increase the torque...
And lastly, a 1/32 scale Apollo rover vehicle...
I got change from a twenty pound note for all my purchases this year which is a record. A few drivers and some bits for a building project - subject of a future blog.
Highlights included:
A micro slot car layout in a briefcase...
A brilliantly detailed 1/32 slot car store, complete with Scalextric box sets in the windows. I'd read about this the weekend before in Slot Car Magazine and got a chance to chat with the builder at the Festival...
A slot car Wall of Death...
Additional vehicles to the Italian Job set I've blogged about in previous show reports.
A huge Minic Motorways layout with automated trains and vehicles...
A Mad Max truck conversion from a Revell plastic kit...
...with an ingenious method of taking power from the track and powering the truck units rear axle with additional gearing to increase the torque...
And lastly, a 1/32 scale Apollo rover vehicle...
I got change from a twenty pound note for all my purchases this year which is a record. A few drivers and some bits for a building project - subject of a future blog.
