The Prince and The Pauper

Last week I was happy to hear FLY announced future release for nissan Z-car. I hope it will be really released.

More than that, I am expecting for other Japanese cars release, too.  Not only famous cars but also many other unique ones such as Mazda Cosmo sports, Capella rotary coupe, etc..

By the way, I remembered that I got a pair of Arii Nissan kit in a local flea market a few years ago. They were somebody's quick builds.  One was the Skyline GT-R factory racer, the other one was Fairlady Z sunday racer. Z was once dayglo orange spray painted, and had light gray wheels. Sorry no photo.

At that time, GT-R racer was very attractive to me, so the toylike colored Z-car was just a poor bonus. Old cars painted in such flashy color have long been abandoned.

One night last week I got an idea to repaint that orange car.
I applied Tamiya enamel directly on it by paintbrush and didn't care about brush marks.

Here is the result.  Rather rough surface just looks good for the old backstreet tuned car as I expected. It's far from that costly factory modified car.

On other hand Skyline "Hakosuka" GT-R racer was almost as it was, excepted for decal peeling by dried out, some touch up for paint defects, overall cleaning, and some chassis tinkering for running.

I'm looking forward to a set-up the two on this weekend. I hope to make them good runners.

＜NISSAN Skyline(KPGC10) GT-R Factory Racer & Fairlady(S30) 240Z Street Racer,  Arii kit bashing,  MRRC Sebring chassis,  FF-050 Motor removed from  Scalextric Austin Mini＞

Scalextric VW Beetle Cup

In this morning, I finished fantasy works for my wife and myself.
Here are the results.

As an image, if there were administrative liaison vehicles of a military base.

This time, it was started by unexpected gifts from my Osaka friend.

＜Above Images are for reference only.  Photos by courtesy of Scalextric Car Restorations.＞

Once I used to hear a one-make race of circa 2000's old scalextric beetle cup cars was about be in held in my friend's commercial track.

＜Above Images are for reference only.  Photos by courtesy of Sakky★Boss, Sakky's Collections.＞

Not only I didn't pay much attention to that, but also kept distance from that for a while.
Because there was a reason for such an attitude.

In my perception, it might be fun for not experienced, but I've already ran enough and I was fed up old scalextric cars of that time. Especially circa 2000's scalextric cars. That was fusion of modern cars appearance and lack of matched performance.

Please don't take me wrong, I liked those cars and actually enjoyed in those days. I used to learn many things to how to refine a car performance from those cars, and at that time I really had fun to race with my circuit pals.

But I simply felt they were not suitable for holding championship for nowadays.
I was seized with that idea, and I could not decide for a long time whether to get in the party or not.
After all, I decided to push my back.

Easy regulations as below.

Body, chassis, transparent parts, lighting components, motors, gears, front and rear axles, stock plastic wheels all are not allowed for change.

Any means for fix front axle are not allowed.
Loose front is specified.

Adding weights are allowed but total car weight is limited for 110g.
Any guide blades, any contact brushes are allowed.
Motor cable change is allowed.
Silicon tires are not allowed because of keeping ninco abrasive track conditions.
Rear wing and side mirrors are needed.

In short, it's almost basically out of the box race.

According to their regulations, I changed rear tires, glued and trued them, added weights, and repainted bodies.

Only waterslide decals and racing mirrors were handmade.

ProSlot Porsche 993 GT2

Waiting for a long time to coming up some last ideas making up chassis.

Finally I made up chassis and completed 2 cars.

Olifer chassis was very good for negative camber front setting up.

And also installed Zmachine LED xenon lighting kit.

I picked up very common motors Ninco NC5 as angle winder, matched them with 10T pinion gears.

Now i'm looking forward to cruising together with my friend's Revo Slot 993.

Spirit VW Golf 1

Here are 2 cars I recently repainted.

They were long abandoned in my stock yard because of character mismatching high power motors.

＜Above Image is for motor reference only.  Photo by courtesy of Dave Kennedy, Slot Car News.＞

There were another wrong powered motors in my hands.

So I decided to change power units for making 2 favorites.

Also I had to get suitable 3D printed motor mounts from OLIFER, and Chassis from NR3D.

Here's the result.

Light blue #70 for my wife, and yellow #71 for me.

2 German famous bears are on each side of my wife's car.

It must be surely encouraging her.

Ninco ProTruck just repainted.

I have enjoyed new livery on old products.

And now I play like a childlike playing.
Get out of garage...

and head to the Raceway.

Line up.

Both full up the gas.

Arrive at the Raceway.

Ready...

And go!!

Let's Race!

So far, so good.

Full Breaking!

Wow, a bit over accelerating !

Keep in lane. Chance to overtaking from the outside...

Keep the lead and finish!

On any weekends, it's always such a game.
Difference is only that the car changes.

＜Diorama scenery was made by Kenzi Nomoto, known as "38SPL".  Special thanks to RPMB.＞

2017.08.12〜15 Summer Trip

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