Plenty of Materials Have Been Gathered To Begin Construction of Diecast Cars Race Course Chapter FIVE

November 30, 2020

#405 

Gentle reader,

Many fans of 3DBotmaker's excellent 1:64th scale diecast racing have been inspired by their fantastic racing and commentary and have sought out to build their own tracks or courses.

My wife and I are older than most who do so, I'm in my sixties and she in her fifties. She works somewhere that receives a lot of electronics and thus their packaging is up for grabs.

For those new to my blog, Thank you! Here is the previous article about the subject:
The Robb Collections: Configuring Downhill 1:64 Scale Diecast Hot Wheels Racing Course Chapter FOUR: Prototyping UPDATE

She has come home with all kinds of stuff! I used the heavy double and triple wall cardboard to create a pallet on which to build. We have young grandkids and need to build it so they can reach the starting gate. And we can pick the entire base up and place it on a long folding table build it.

The track components and some of the wood we will use to support the straights. We plan to paint the orange and glow-in-the-dark track pieces dark grey to match the Crash Racers track.

To stabilize the Crash Racers corners, I cut out thick double-wall cardboard and glued it the the bottom of the corners.

My wife found at a hardware store the perfect material to cover the backs of the curves which we will attempt to make look like concrete.

The "pallet" with all the other cardboard she has brought home so far.

The rolled up piece in front of a narrow piece is corrugated cardboard that is missing one face. Perfect to make shipping containers walls with. 

Boxes on the right are the heaviest cardboard either of us have ever encountered.

We had begun cutting and gluing these pieces of semi-rigid foam to use as spacers to determine the downhill angles of the straights.

Her latest two hauls are made up of these various kinds and stiffness foam pieces.

The OCD we both have a bit of caused us to sort it all out and stack like pieces.

Most seem to be marked with recycling labels which should help avoiding what is not used from going into a landfill.

These, above and below, are all soft foam rubber of different types, colors and softness. The blocks on the right will be covered in the aforementioned corrugated cardboard and be transformed into shipping containers.

Three-dimensional Tetris is what I played organizing all the pieces into the two flattened (very heavy) boxes shown above.

The rest of the pieces were loaded into the two boxes. My OCD does not like chaos.

And here is everything neatly organized and out of the way. For now. Long pink foam "board" on the left is more than six feet long.

NEXT STEP occurs this weekend as we try out various things and what they might be used for. Keeping in mind that most of the track must be visible for the cameras (and fans). We hope.

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Scott & Nancy

November 30, 2020

#405