SlotCarMAG issue 6

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ISSUE 6 • VOLUME 1 • FEBRUARY 2012

FOR RACERS, COLLECTORS AND BUILDERS

Nonno Slot:

Time-slip yourself back to the turbo era with this new breed of slot car

Slot.it Ford GT40:

The white kit, always a useful option to customise and enhance your grid

The WHO:

Just who are The WHO and what are they doing to promote racing?

Maurizio Ferrari:

A questionable character!

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Contents

ISSUE 6 • VOLUME 1 • FEBRUARY 2012

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In This Issue:

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Pit Board:

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Slot.it GT40:

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Brush Strokes:

One year old Issue 6 means we have been going for a year and as usual we have a great easy-to-enter competition. Answer the simple question and win some hoardings from Royale.

The white kit Ric Woods builds and paints the delightful GT40 and surmises that he has a winner. Probably the hardest part about this kit was choosing a colour scheme.

An essential brush with paint If you thought that a paint brush was for doing the window frames or sandtexing the front step, think again. Lynne Haines shows us some sable.

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Nonno Slot:

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Post Card from Germany:

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Perfect in body?

Fancy a grid full of Formula 1 cars from the 1980s?

Well there’s a new manufacturer that goes by the name of Nonno ready to make your dream come true!

Pictorial niceties!

Our associates at SlotForum and Pendle Slot Racing spent most of their waking hours at Nürnberg clicking away to bring you the latest designs.

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Decal Printing:

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Club Focus:

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Questionable Character:

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The World According To Dilworth:

Get your ink really working Richard Bennett describes how to get the logos from your computer screen onto special decal paper to help you transform your cars into something special.

Dublin Slot car Club Ronan Donahoe helps run a club in Ireland and is trying to entice people out of their homes and away from rug-racing.

The interrogation continues Maurizio Ferrari is forthright and honest with his answers to our questions – just as well, because we had the spotlight on him!

Vive La France!

Dilworth is now threatening the very existence of the European Union as he grapples with our nearest nonEnglish-speaking neighbours!

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

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Slot.it Ford GT40

white kit

by Ric Woods

The Slot.it white kits have always had a certain appeal to me, and not just because I save some money! You do get some satisfaction out of creating a car in your preferred colour scheme, and hopefully some fun out of putting together the kit as well. Slot.it have released both the Ford GT40 and the Ford MkII (note: it was never called the GT40 MkII at the time, as Ford USA were distancing themselves from the hitherto unsuccessful British-built GT40, and history has been rewritten somewhat to make the GT40 look better than it was) and lacking a GT40 in my collection I went for that one...

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h s u r B okes r t S

by Lynne Haines

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.”

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’ll try to keep this quick and simple so as not to bore you all to tears, 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...

Brushes You will need a good collection of brushes in different shapes and sizes. For most of your painting needs “taklon” brushes will be more than suitable. Taklon is a synthetic fibre that makes a soft and resilient brush.

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Flat brushes are primarily used for spreading paint and laying large, smooth areas of colour. They are also useful for blending. Round brushes hold more paint which makes them suited for painting heavily textured areas as well as lines and detail.

I do, however, like a quality sable brush for the superfine details on painted figures. Sable, being a natural animal fibre, is rather 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.

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Nonno Slot perfect in body?

by Jim McNeill

Do you fancy a grid full of Formula 1 cars from the 1980s?

We’ve been taking a look at Nonno Slot, a new manufacturer from the hotbed of slot car creativity that is Italy…

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Postcard from

The International Toy

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Fair – Nürnberg 2012

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Key: n – Racer n – Ninco n – Avant Slot n – MRRC n – FLY Slot

n – Carrera n – Kyosho n – NSR n – Scale Auto n – 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’ll run on your 1:32nd track; fantastic Audi lurking behind Carrera representative(!) …(Pictures used with the kind permission of SlotForum.com and Pendle Slot Racing.)

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Bringing slot c racing to a newar generation!

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Top: Drivers stations with adjustable brakes Main Pic: HO Formula 1 club cars Above: A typical WHO marshalling post!

here is a perennial question that bugs all slot car clubs; how do we attract the younger generation and guarantee 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 major publicity drive in the local community. Since then our attendances have averaged between twenty and twenty-five for our monthly race meetings, with half our racers aged sixteen years or younger.

We always aimed to welcome racers of all ages. To make our events feel safe and accessible we set up a proper sports club with a constitution and child protection policy. Each month we award one medal to the race winner and one to the top junior racer, but everyone runs against each other in the heats and finals.

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Printing

Decals

At 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... ach decal can be resized if needs be by going back into the Word document, clicking on the decal, then resizing the box that surrounds it. Just for your own peace of mind it would be advisable to reprint that decal again just to make sure it is correct.

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

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the mock up. The exception to this is if you are using asymmetric logos, meaning that the logo on the right hand side of the car will look different to when it is on the left hand side. For example, there may be enough room under a door handle for the “g” in Carlsberg on one side of the car, but will there be enough room for the “C” in Carlsberg under the door handle on the other side? Also remember that repositioning just one decal can 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 or go wrong. The next thing you need to do is copy this document

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Club Focus

Dublin

Slot Car Racing Club

by Ronan Donohoe

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.

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sually when someone decides to look into slot car racing 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 meeting up regularly to race on tracks in each other’s homes for the past 20 years. The group to date has never been large enough to enable the upkeep and maintenance of a permanent track in a clubhouse setting, but instead operates out of the members’ homes. The tracks used are all 4-lane tracks, and over time the track systems in use have included Classic and Sport Scalextric, Ninco and routed MDF tracks.

One member who joined the group in 2009 already had a 3-lane routed wood track in his home, and once he started racing regularly with the group he went with a new track with 4 lanes to fit in with the rest of the tracks used. Now there are two members with wood tracks and there is a third track which is nearly finished and which will be the largest of the lot, being approximately 16ft x 8ft and located in a purposebuilt outhouse in the owner’s garden.

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

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