My model racing slotcar ready for the track.
My model racing slotcar ready for the track.
The original car as it ran in 1991 and how Revell-Monogram thought the kit should
look like when it is built.
It started on the bench. I built two cars at the same time for the Northland
500 race in the summer of 2003. Starting to read the rules and preparing the
parts. All parts where checked and weighted to see what the total weight of
the assembled car would be. Since the rules says it is okey to lighten a Profinish
kit since they are heavier (the blue Monte Carlo is a Profinish from the beginning),
a lot of work was done to get it down to the same weight as the standard kit.
Pictures of the finished interior, all done by me.
Pictures of the finished body. The
body is painted by a professional car painter called Peter Bjurman and
all decaling, window frame painting and pre-priming work are made by me. Torbjörn
Lundkvist helped me glue the rear and front bumpers into place with clever re-enforcments
for added strenght.
Body and interior ready to meet eachother.
On the track!
The Sakatsu chassis it was mounted on for the race in Germany. This is the only
chassis allowed according to the rules.
This chassis has a unusual way of mounting the body. Instead of the more normal
"H-plate" and body holders on the sides it has two "towers"
that are glued on the body that reaches down to the chassis and are screwed
in place. It works better than it looks.
The "towers" are made from hard foam rubber so they are very light
and once mounted they have some play sidewise to dampen the body movements influence
on the chassis. The amount of movement is adjustable by picking different lenghts
of the screws!
It turned out that the car was faster in the right corners than the left. This
due to the fact that the body side is higher on the left side and can't lean
down on the track in the turns. I therefor glued on a 2 mm high piece of styrene
that I painted black and glued on a piece of the exhaust pipes. And after this
the car did go really good. It came in fifth place at the race. The best place
anyone that wasn't a local at the tricky track came. Also see the race report
at another place on this site!