A quad of quad bikes

I'd been searching for ages for a quad bike to race against the one Andy picked up the Slot Car Festival last year.  I bought the little quad bikes a week or so ago because I'd pretty much given up hope of finding a bigger one at a sensible price.  Inevitably, the very next day, someone put one up for auction on eBay and I managed to win the item a week later.

The little quad bikes are 1:32 scale so look right on the track but they don't have the detail and race-ability of the ones from Avant Slot.  These are said to be 1:24 but the riders look even bigger than those on the Scalextric motorcycles and Ninco go-karts (both 1:18 scale) so I think it's more like 1:16.

I also found this short National Geographic clip about how slot cars and track are manufactured.  The narrator talks about Scalextric which I doubt would please Carrera whose cars and track are featured in the video, but in the UK at least, Scalextric means slot car in the same way as Hoover means vacuum cleaner.

Swindon Scalextric Swapmeet 2013

Andy manfully struggled from his sick bed to join me at the annual Swapmeet in Swindon yesterday.

Andy managed to find probably the only remaining Ninco Go-Karts still available anywhere to add to his already large collection.  I bought a couple of small quad bikes made by Powerslot.

These are tiny but whizz around quite quickly although the nobbly tyres don't provide much grip, particularly since the bikes are so light, but they're a new novelty!

I bought some lead figures - First Aiders and TV Crew - which I'll post about when I've painted them.  I also managed to find some surprisingly well painted pit crew and driver figures.  I'd painted my first pit crew figures with blue overalls, so I bought some more in white and red.

This really fills up the pit lane well and means I have a different coloured crew for each of the three cars: