Fila, Ron, Darth More, good evening. Still fresh, I’m scared to even look at your threads yet. Skill sets have advanced since I was posting last. That much screams at me from the front page. Shawn, it’s good to see your typed letters, buddy!
So it is a carrera 1/32-1/24 track and I race both scales of cars.
I may have had a slot car track when I was a kid but it wasn’t like this.
I was shopping around for a little set for a holiday gift for someone’s kid and started seeing this stuff out there and got interested. I bit the bullet and bought a 1/32 digital set and got it running on the floor. About the time I drifted my first car around a corner, I realized I had something special.
For years, I had dreamed of having this huge trainsrt layout in the basement to thrill grand babies and myself with. I had constructed the table, covered it with foam, and had built a complicated track system with complex elevation changes and digitally controlled switches all over the place. I was to have structures/bridges/plenty of ground and rock work, a town, trainyard, the whole works. I had accumulated all kinds of kits to build and detail and light, as the broader picture of the scope of work became sharper, it just turned into too large of a project to approach to me.
So, I stripped the 12”x4” table of all its track and elevation changes and set up this racetrack that I had bought. I configured it to fit on the table and then started adding track until I filled the table. Still not satisfied, I enlarged the table to 4 ft 6 x 14 ft 6 and filled it with track again. Now satisfied with this thing that reminds me of an arcade skeet shoot table from the shape, I started to decorate with led lights fashioned into streetlights by an overseas machinist who peddles em on eBay, and scattered some of those animatronic signs around that the train guys like. I have broken out the static grass and groundwork materials box and have started to fill the remaining parts of exposed table with little diorama inserts built remotely and then installed onto the table individually. I have just installed the third piece this week, and now need to revisit the first two sections again and bring them closer to what the third piece looks like. That’s the bad part about making them individually. Each time, I would experiment and add a new effect and would end up liking it better.
Enough long winded banter. The cursed cloud is holding my older pics ransome tonight so I’ll have to take some new shots to show you the whole layout
Here is another from yesterday, at the pit row, looking towards the area where I put the new lights.
