Models and Slot Cars from the NEC-RETRO Workshop

1:24 Fiat Abarth 1000 TCR Slot Car - DSV

1:24 Lola T70 Skip Hudson WP CanAm car As I had an 1:24 Lola T70 body with the intake schnorkels laying around from Tom Anderson, I decided to have a go at Skip Hudson's Lancer sponsored car for a White Point CanAm car As I could not find any decals for it I had to do them myself, using Corel Draw and my new supercheap Xerox colour laser printer. The car is a light blue/grey metallic with stripes going from the headlight and side intakes. These stripes are apparently stickers with silver "brushed steel" deco. So what to do ??? I searched the net for suitable pictures of metal with this kind of surface treatment and was lucky to find a pattern that could be used. I drew the stripe pattern and by using both Coreldraw and photo draw i succeeded in making suitable decals with the pattern. I printed them on clear decals film and plan to paint them silver from the backside as the decals are applied from the inside. The number disc and Skip Hudson logo ...

My good friend Jan Juul and I have for some time discussed the possibility of making a Slot Car class based on the smaller GT cars that raced in Denmark in the 1965-1971 period. Some years ago we made two Lexan Escorts painted like Tom Belsø and Fl. Rasmussens's car and recently I finished a long-time project of the Belsø car with a home made grp body My Lexan Escort painted like Fl. Rasmussen's 1969 car My grp car painted like Tom Belsø's 1969 car As we felt a growing interest from other racers, and we decided to proceed with the class and I began collecting information of the cars that raced back then and which of them was available in 1:24 scale. We consider to limit the class to max. 2000ccm as the Falcon, Mustang and Camaro are a bit too big compared to the other cars, but the rules are not fixed yet. Here is some of the cars I found: Mini, Escort, NSU - even the Escort looks huge compared the the other two  Mini, Abarth, Fa...