SlotCarMAG issue 6

Nonno Slot:Time-slip yourselfback to the turbo erawith this new breed of slot car

Slot.it Ford GT40:The white kit, always auseful option to customiseand enhance your grid

The WHO:Just who are The WHO andwhat are they doing topromote racing?

Maurizio Ferrari:A questionable character!

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Pit Board:One year old Issue 6 means we have been going for a year and as usualwe have a great easy-to-enter competition. Answer thesimple question and win some hoardings from Royale.

Slot.it GT40:The white kitRic Woods builds and paints the delightful GT40 andsurmises that he has a winner. Probably the hardestpart about this kit was choosing a colour scheme.

Brush Strokes:An essential brush with paintIf you thought that a paint brush was for doing thewindow frames or sandtexing the front step, thinkagain. Lynne Haines shows us some sable.

Nonno Slot:Perfect in body?Fancy a grid full of Formula 1 cars from the 1980s?Well there’s a new manufacturer that goes by thename of Nonno ready to make your dream come true!

Post Card from Germany:Pictorial niceties!Our associates at SlotForum and Pendle Slot Racingspent most of their waking hours at Nürnberg clickingaway to bring you the latest designs.

The WHO:Andy Player describes his ideas to attract membersThey don’t smash all their equipment up at the end ofthe evening and if persuaded they probably would doan encore – meet the racers from WHO.

Decal Printing:Get your ink really workingRichard Bennett describes how to get the logos fromyour computer screen onto special decal paper tohelp you transform your cars into something special.

Club Focus:Dublin Slot car ClubRonan Donahoe helps run a club in Ireland and is try-ing to entice people out of their homes and away fromrug-racing.

Questionable Character:The interrogation continues Maurizio Ferrari is forthright and honest with hisanswers to our questions – just as well, because wehad the spotlight on him!

The World According To Dilworth:Vive La France!Dilworth is now threatening the very existence of theEuropean Union as he grapples with our nearest non-English-speaking neighbours!

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Slot.itFord GT40

white kit by Ric Woods

The Slot.it white kits have always had a certain appeal to me, and notjust because I save some money! You do get some satisfaction out ofcreating a car in your preferred colour scheme, and hopefully somefun out of putting together the kit as well. Slot.it have released boththe Ford GT40 and the Ford MkII (note: it was never called the GT40MkII at the time, as Ford USA were distancing themselves from thehitherto unsuccessful British-built GT40, and history has beenrewritten somewhat to make the GT40 look better than it was) andlacking a GT40 in my collection I went for that one...


Let’s take a bit of a side step from the scenery projects in this issue. Recently, I fielded some questions

on the few slot car-related fora I inhabit about the sort of paint I use for scenery. I also received a

request to cover some painting techniques and theory. As this particular request came from one of the

Editors of this fine publication there was really no response possible other than “Yes boss.”

BrushStrokes

I’ll try to keep this quick and simple so as not to bore you all totears, but I will understand if you wish to turn ahead to page(insert page number of next article) where there is a fine story

by (insert author name) on (insert subject of next article).So, let us begin...

BrushesYou will need a good collection of brushes in different shapesand sizes. For most of your painting needs “taklon” brushes willbe more than suitable. Taklon is a synthetic fibre that makes asoft and resilient brush.

Flat brushes are primarily used for spreading paint andlaying large, smooth areas of colour. They are also useful forblending. Round brushes hold more paint which makes themsuited for painting heavily textured areas as well as lines anddetail.

I do, however, like a quality sable brush for the superfinedetails on painted figures. Sable, being a natural animal fibre, israther expensive, but well cared for they will last for years.

With the exception of the far right these brushes are taklon.The last brush is a much loved and used natural sable brush.

by Lynne Haines

Do you fancy a gridfull of Formula 1 carsfrom the 1980s?We’ve been taking alook at Nonno Slot, anew manufacturerfrom thehotbed of slotcar creativitythat is Italy…

Nonno Slotperfect in body?by Jim McNeill

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Key:n – Racern – Nincon – Avant Slotn – MRRCn – FLY Slot

n – Carreran – Kyoshon – NSRn – Scale Auton – Slot.it

Some our highlights: Back to basics – FlySlot Alpha range with inline chassis;nice rally Lancia from Ninco; MRRC Le Mans-winning Ford Mk4 (again!);Kyosho D-Slot (unfortunate name!) range – prettiest 1:43rds so far? – they’llrun on your 1:32nd track; fantastic Audi lurking behind Carrerarepresentative(!) …(Pictures used with the kind permission of SlotForum.comand Pendle Slot Racing.)


There is a perennial question that bugs all slot car clubs;how do we attract the younger generation andguarantee the future of our club? At Worthing HO

Racing we think we’ve gone some way to answering it.Robin Cornwall and I launched WHO Racing in February

2010, after nearly a year of planning, preparation and a majorpublicity drive in the local community. Since then ourattendances have averaged between twenty and twenty-fivefor our monthly race meetings, with half our racers agedsixteen years or younger.

We always aimed to welcome racers of all ages. To makeour events feel safe and accessible we set up a proper sportsclub with a constitution and child protection policy. Each

month we award one medal to the race winner and one to thetop junior racer, but everyone runs against each other in theheats and finals.

The by Andy Player

WHORacing story

Top: Drivers stations with adjustable brakesMain Pic: HO Formula 1 club carsAbove: A typical WHO marshalling post!

Bringing slot carracing to a newgeneration!


Each decal can be resized if needs be by going back into theWord document, clicking on the decal, then resizing thebox that surrounds it. Just for your own peace of mind it

would be advisable to reprint that decal again just to make sureit is correct.

While you have the decals printed in paper form you can trydifferent arrangements on the car. You will be surprised howmuch of a difference adding or removing even one small decalcan make.. Remember that you really only need to cut out andsize enough decals for one side of the car, the front, rear androof, and that you generally don’t need to decal the entire car in

the mock up. The exception to this is if you are using asymmetriclogos, meaning that the logo on the right hand side of the carwill look different to when it is on the left hand side. Forexample, there may be enough room under a door handle forthe “g” in Carlsberg on one side of the car, but will there beenough room for the “C” in Carlsberg under the door handle onthe other side? Also remember that repositioning just one decalcan change the way the whole car looks.

You should now have a document with all your decals on it,enough to do your car plus some spares if some get damaged orgo wrong. The next thing you need to do is copy this document

Printing

DecalsAt this point you should now have a Word document saved on your PC with the correct

number of logos, plus spares, driver names, car numbers and roundels. It would be

advisable to print off all your decals on plain paper and apply them to the car to make

sure they all fit and the car looks how you want it...


Club Focus

Usually when someone decides to look into slot carracing as a hobby they can often find details of a local,or relatively local, slot club to get involved with, but

Ireland is essentially a slot car racing desert in this regard.However, there is one small group who have been meetingup regularly to race on tracks in each other’s homes for thepast 20 years. The group to date has never been large enoughto enable the upkeep and maintenance of a permanent trackin a clubhouse setting, but instead operates out of themembers’ homes. The tracks used are all 4-lane tracks, andover time the track systems in use have included Classic andSport Scalextric, Ninco and routed MDF tracks.

One member who joined the group in 2009 already had a3-lane routed wood track in his home, and once he startedracing regularly with the group he went with a new track with4 lanes to fit in with the rest of the tracks used. Now there aretwo members with wood tracks and there is a third trackwhich is nearly finished and which will be the largest of thelot, being approximately 16ft x 8ft and located in a purpose-built outhouse in the owner’s garden.

As a result of the general switch to wood tracks, thetraction magnets in the cars used are obviously ineffective so“magless” racing is now the norm, with more and more of the

Most kids in Ireland at some stage will

have had a Scalextric set, usually as a

Christmas present or for a birthday, so

the brand is very well known in Ireland,

but very few go beyond the ‘rug racing’

level of slot car racing and get involved

with slot racing in a club setting, as is

more common in England, France, the US

and Spain, for example.

DublinSlot Car Racing Club

by Ronan Donohoe

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