You got my fullest respect for your skills and work with wires, LEDs and soldering! Both your race track and all your slot cars look amazing all lighted up! Awesome work, Clint!
- Philipp
thank you sir, I’m just having fun here. Led work certainly doesn’t scare me like it used to.
In the early sixties, the Ford AC Cobra was known as a serious circuit racer and by the time the Shelby Cobra came around, Chevy was feeling like they needed a contender to show, if at least at the track. Using the talents of Bill Thomas, they produced an all Chevy parts made car called the Cheetah which was supposed to accelerate faster in a straight line than the 427 carrol Shelby developed Cobra.
Our model is a 1/32 scale Carrera version. It was a modern evolution car and the digital chip popped into place. I assume a digital version may have been available but I see no existing mounts for lights. This version had smoked and painted headlight lenses so I opted to leave those unlit and crafted some crude fog light housings out of some jewelry craft crimping tubes that I found at Walmart. I drilled holes for the tubes and wires to pass through this plate that sits in the cars grill area. The wires and resister bundle were tucked behind that plate. That silver painted assembly was a factory cast light tube for transferring light to the headlight area on another version.
I used nano led lights this time because of room restrictions. Yellows glued on the backside of the grill foglight holes, and reds glued into little holes cast into the backside of the tailight area.
Got it back together and....she is a runner. Pretty fast
