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[sinn city]

Hi there. I was looking at another slot forum today and saw a plastic track by ferrari in Sydney I think it was. I was wondering if anyone knows what he used to colour code the lanes? He has bright straight coloured lines to help indicate where 'offs' should be reslotted. I have been looking for paint pens in Brisbane with no luck so far. I have a 4 lane ninco track that I would like to colour code. Was thinking of fixing an old guide to a piece of dowel and fixing a paint pen to mark the lines. I would particularly like to code the lanes in red, blue, yellow and white. I have a white paint pen but cannot find any other colours. If anyone has any other ideas how to do this, and where to get paint pens from if this was the method used, please let me know. Have tried the search function but get no successful matches so if the info is on here I must be asking fot the wrong thing.

Cheers

[Davnic74]

sinn city, on Sep 4 2008, 12:34 PM, said:

Hi there. I was looking at another slot forum today and saw a plastic track by ferrari in Sydney I think it was. I was wondering if anyone knows what he used to colour code the lanes? He has bright straight coloured lines to help indicate where 'offs' should be reslotted. I have been looking for paint pens in Brisbane with no luck so far. I have a 4 lane ninco track that I would like to colour code. Was thinking of fixing an old guide to a piece of dowel and fixing a paint pen to mark the lines. I would particularly like to code the lanes in red, blue, yellow and white. I have a white paint pen but cannot find any other colours. If anyone has any other ideas how to do this, and where to get paint pens from if this was the method used, please let me know. Have tried the search function but get no successful matches so if the info is on here I must be asking fot the wrong thing.

Cheers

I know down here in Melbourne we have store's like Repco,Autobarn and Supercheap Auto were you can pick up automotive paint touch up pen's in the color's your looking for...all though could be around the $10 range .

All you need to do is free hand a line about 1 inch long beside your power rail at 4-5 inch intervalls...rather than paint the whole track.

Edited by Davnic74, 04 September 2008 - 12:49 PM.

[neophytte]

I bought some paint pens from eBay; it was a while ago (a year or so?) so I can't remember the exact price, but the postage went down the more you bought, and I do remember they were a fairly good price. Ironically, after that I built a track and never needed them

HTH

Cheers

Richard

[sinn city]

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I know down here in Melbourne we have store's like Repco,Autobarn and Supercheap Auto were you can pick up automotive paint touch up pen's in the color's your looking for...all though could be around the $10 range .

All you need to do is free hand a line about 1 inch long beside your power rail at 4-5 inch intervalls...rather than paint the whole track.
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Didn't even think of that. All those stores exist up here so I will have a look. Thanks for that.

[hepkat63]

I have used this for two years now, five tracks and still going strong: http://www.beugler.com/
Simple, fast, effective

[gah5]

sinn city, on Sep 4 2008, 01:59 PM, said:

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I know down here in Melbourne we have store's like Repco,Autobarn and Supercheap Auto were you can pick up automotive paint touch up pen's in the color's your looking for...all though could be around the $10 range .

All you need to do is free hand a line about 1 inch long beside your power rail at 4-5 inch intervalls...rather than paint the whole track.

Didn't even think of that. All those stores exist up here so I will have a look. Thanks for that.

Those stores should also have "pin stripping" kits, might be lucky with colors, worth looking at as wel.
I've seen these used on UK plastic tracks

[Bill]

I got mine from SpotLight in the craft section, tried all the usual places Bunnings etc but they have stopped stocking them as kids use them for graffiti
Bill