Happy Christmas - got busy with the Scalextric again!

[joff-turbo-nova]

Just thought I would like to say that I hope everyone has had a good Christmas and I trust you will have a good new year.

As is usual in our house over Christmas , the Scalextric was retrieved from the loft and we set up this circuit ...

Start finish straight,

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y15/joff-turbo-nova/Scalextric2013-4_zpscb9c5302.jpg

Bus stop chicane around the coffee table...

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y15/joff-turbo-nova/Scalextric2013-5_zps3a77aadf.jpg

On to some curves out of the lounge and into the hall....

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y15/joff-turbo-nova/Scalextric2013-6_zps838bb7e6.jpg

Down the hall on the back straight....

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y15/joff-turbo-nova/Scalextric2013-1_zpsf166a9bc.jpg

Curving through the dining room.....

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y15/joff-turbo-nova/Scalextric2013-2_zps253dce3e.jpg

Then back into the lounge, curving round the Christmas Tree back onto the start finish straight....

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y15/joff-turbo-nova/Scalextric2013-3_zpsd5eaa8b3.jpg


Our new additions to the fleet this year are a Scalextric Club R8 (with working lights)

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y15/joff-turbo-nova/Scalextric2013-7_zps1965e3b2.jpg

A Police Subaru Impreza (with flashing lights & siren)...

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y15/joff-turbo-nova/Scalextric2013-8_zpsba53e632.jpg

And a Cadillac Endurance racer...

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y15/joff-turbo-nova/Scalextric2013-9_zpse0d2027a.jpg

I also did a quick video of a lap with the camcorder strapped to the top of a car! ....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqK7BysNHg0&feature=youtu.be

Enjoy !

Joff

[mowgli]

i need to get a scalextric set...

[ASH GSI]

good work, +100 man points for you

[Balley]

That is awesome, well done :)

[Benn]

I glad it isn't just me. When i was a kid (see 11-16) i used to set my track up going thru about 4 rooms.. It was ace having a huge track.
till a car came off at the other end of the house....

Bloody good work!

Do you not get controllers anymore? Just that pad thing?

[Spudly]

Hahahahaha, thats fantastic Joff, how you get away with being a much bigger kid than Patrick, ill never know lol


Brilliant work:thumb:

[kbf71]

Good effort Joff! When I was younger my dad's friend gave us loads of old scalextric from the 70's (none of the cars worked but the track did) and I made tracks that were huge but always really twisty at the end of the lap (with the last couple of pieces forced together) because I had run out of straights lol

[novadave24]

love it very good I was thinking how you kept eye on the cars as they went around the track :)