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OMG how do you do that? Is there a place were you tell your secrets. I would love to know how you do that. The paint brush Testors gave me with my paints wont paint eyes to that scale lol.
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As Allan suggested try printing your own. Inkscape is a great free vector program and you can print on Inkjets OR better still on a colour Laser printer. White white will still be a problem everthing else can be done. I print my own decals and have had great results but yellow on a dark car seems impossible. I've got yellow to work on a silver car but it was to translucent for dark green. Any suggestions? I'm trying to finish my Monogram Lotus 33 Patio has the original decals and also a set that includes the side strip and team lotus logo. Your post has me worried I don't want to pay 16/17 bucks and have the same problems as described.
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Here are some pics of my first attempt at routing a track. I love the look of the Targa Florio so I wanted lots of elevation change. I had very limited space so I cut this track from a single piece of MFD 4*8. I'm using cooper tape for pick ups. I'll post more pics as I go. i just wanted to add a technical note I uses double sided tape because I thought it wold be easier than using contact cement. It worked well but If you use double back tape make sure you don't try to stretch the copper tape when you apply it. The copper tape held well except were i tried to stretch it around the corners. Just roll it out with a few more wrinkles otherwise it might pull up like mine did.
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It still needs mirrors a roll bar and maybe some wheel inserts.
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Hows that a little better. I put my scalextric lotus 49 in the shot for comparison. You can also see my MRRC Honda 273.
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Unfortunately I don't have a track to run it on but I assume since the chassis is from a stock scalextric it should go quit well. I sold my plastic track and started making my permanent track MFD 2 lain with copper tape but its not quit finished. I plan to post pics of my new track soon. I will also be posting pics of a MRRC Honda 273 I used home maid decals on. Sorry the pics are so small I'll work on makeing them larger.
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Quite a common fix I believe....I do it myself. A nice mixture of parts too.....real nice. How does it run?
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Its been awhile since I have posted. I moved back to Oklahoma from Hawaii. I have been working on my 1967 68 F1 grid. Just wanted to share with you my progress. There are cars in this class that were never mass produced, one of my favorites is the Brabham BT19/20. Why they never made this car is beyond me, it won multiple championships for gods sake. Anyway Faller Club produced a car there called a BT3 when I saw it my immediate thought was that it looked more like the BT19. I finally was able to get one from Switzerland so I began the build. I used a Scalextric Maclaren M20 chassis. wheels and axles form the new Scalextric Lotus 49. I made custom pipes and velocity stacks, and cut a big chunk of the body off the back. I'm cheap so there were no custom decals the stripes and meatballs are painted on, only the numbers are decals. The wind screen was cut from some clear packing plastic. Hope you like it here are some pics. [/img]
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no just trying to dry the paint. it rains here every day.
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Thanks Eno! The best thing for me about this car is that it was a lot cheaper than a Fly or evan a Scalextric 917, even though it took two models; I botched the first one in the oven. It still only cost me about 35 dollars. If I had not melted the first car, it would have been about 25 dollars.
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I have been working on my new 917. I had fully intended to paint it in the Gulf colors (like the one I melted) but my wife convinced me to make it a Martini livery. I'm glad I did, I think it is quite nice looking. Here are some pictures although it is not quite done yet. Also, I made the decals myself. If anyone wants the decal file, let me know, and I can email it to you.
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Do you guys know what scale the SUBBUTEO FOOTBALL stuff is? I'm guessing around 1/50, but I have never seen it until now. Football or soccer, as we yanks call it, is not that popular here. I thought this stuff might make good scenery for my track. They have big grandstands with 50 spectators.
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I would love to get my hands on one f these.
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cool pics, They got me thinking about converting this 1/32 RC car to slot.
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Do you think I should wait for the new 6 car pb?
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I'm trying to figure out what digital system would be the best for vintage 1960's 1/32 f1 cars. I have carrera track but I think carrera digital chips are too large. SCX looks like it would be impossible to convert. I think SCX has the smallest chips. Does anyone know if the new Ninco chip might be small enough. Can any one help me? This is a picture of the new scalextric Lotus 49 with a ssd chip by Ched. Check out his post Lotus 49/westlake Eagle.
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You guys in Australia have access to a really cool Scalextric knock off called Wallop by JIADA. They have an f1 set that comes with over 33 feet of track. They say it is even compatibale with Scalextric. The cars are not licensed so they are not painted quite right. But they look pretty good and I think they make a rally set as well. These sets are priced around $70 AU.
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I just finished painting my Ferrari. I added pipes from my leftover Porsche kit. It's not perfect I put the Ferrari logo to fare forward and to high. I had no numbers so there painted on and the front number is not angled quite right but its close. John Surtees helmet is not perfect it's blue stripe was hand painted and bleed into the white. And the paint is not very smooth either. But over all I am very happy.
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Just got lucky I got these for a song and dance, oh happy day. don't you hate people who are always showing you pictures of they kids.
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Last Christmas, I bought some fake snow made of ground up bits of plastic. It was kind of chunky but it probably wouldn't get into the car and would be very easy to clean up.
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Monogram makes a really nice 65 Vette, and Carrera makes some nice Vettes. If its for running, get used. I get used all the time and I like it. lol
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I can see how these cars are very sought after by collectors, but what is the price diference between the ones with brass chassis and the ones with plastic chassis? How old are the ones with plastic chassis? I saw where the brass ones were from the mid 60's. They say the Monogram cars with brass chassis are larger than other 1/32 scale cars, is this true? Are the Monograms with the plastic chassis the same size as the Monograms with the brass chassis?
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Thank again for all your help.
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You guys seem to be having a lot of fun with this. I almost hate to tell you I was outbid on the car.