PINK-KAR Citroën 2cv

Recent builds here.

Far far away from worldwide racing stream of these days, nearly antique construction.  Yellow is for my wife, red is for me. 

Added some custom decals on the yellow road car, added same lead weights under both floors, motors are converted to carrera standard E200 picked up from my junkyard, and put on LED lights.

We run them by old 2013 Kyosho wireless controllers.

Very fragile for shockage and short circuit, dissatisfied for power curve adjust range and too sensitive first trigger touch, but we never throw away as long as receiving Kyosho customer service.

The main reason is it has very useful memory bank for preset the 50 combinations of voltage and brake adjustment.

HPI Nissan Skyline GT-R(BNR32) Group A

Finished mods for front negative camber. 
<Feb. 2021, photos updated as remade worn out rear tires and revised ride height settings>

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<Aug. 2020, Original posted photos>
Sorry for pics are out of focus.
I focused my phone camera on the front wheel to capture camber angle, but some were failed.

Well, now I might not get jealous when the slot-it version comes out.

2020.03.21 Visit to Osaka Sakky's Circuit

As a memory of a short visit to Osaka.  Youtube uploaded.

And other two short movies shot by my friend.

＜Movies by courtesy of Sakky★Boss, Sakky's Collections＞


I made the following modifications. To sum up, I replaced the original heavy resin cockpit with a lightweight vacuum-formed cockpit, swapped the slim-can motor for a heavyweight long-can NC5 motor, glued and trued the tires, and added lead weight.

I was pleasantly surprised by the car's potential to be a great runner. As always, LMM has achieved the highest standard in 1/32 resin model cars/ slot cars!

Scalextric Tyrell P34 Swedish GP 1976 Twin Set

Arrivals of this month.  I'm so hyper today!

Meh ... OK, I don't mind.

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.