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Based on the SCX '07 Chevy Monte Carlo the Camry was an easy fix. I filled in the grill and reshaped the front end a bit, but I couldn't reshape the side windows becasue for how the glass fit. Still it's very close to how the Toyota's looked near the end of the season.

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Patto's decals of course, and basic Model Master dark blue paint. There are a few pictures of a very nice silver and blue version of this car but I'm saving that scheme for a CoT when I get one. This car will be raced in the 300 gram class starting in February. And with the exception of a small scratch in the right side the car looks like a factor paint job. Finishing coat was Future floor wax.

Pete,

Loving your stuff even though the switch in scales bewilders me.

I'm planning on getting back into HO on a limited scale. My problem is now more the ability to work with my hands. Since my accident I don't have the motor skills needed to hang pickup shoes or do complex chassis assembly. I'd say I'm all thumbs but the thimbs work great, it's the rest of the fingers that don't work. The other problem is all of the local HO racers have also gone to larger scales. Now they're bugging me to start vacuforming in 1/32 scale.

Awesome job on the livery Pete! That thing looks great! It may be all this looking at your cars, but the Red Bull theme is enticing me to pick up a Red Bull car. Looks awesome man! GREAT job as usual!

PD2:thumbsup:

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: rr

I'm planning on getting back into HO on a limited scale. My problem is now more the ability to work with my hands. Since my accident I don't have the motor skills needed to hang pickup shoes or do complex chassis assembly. I'd say I'm all thumbs but the thimbs work great, it's the rest of the fingers that don't work. The other problem is all of the local HO racers have also gone to larger scales. Now they're bugging me to start vacuforming in 1/32 scale.

Thanks for the explanation. Hope the fingers improve soon.

Deanne, doubtful. It's not the fingers themselves but the nerve impulses being sent. I have the same problem with my toes, however curling my toes doens't happen as much as curing my fingers. :X

PD, the best out of the box the Carrera Audi A4 DTM is the best. Throw on some Indy Grips and a second neo bar magnet and it's a 400 gram screamer. The cars have the ability to add magents and change the position of the existing magents without taking the car apart. A good second choice is the Duller Motorsports Carrera BMW Z4, fast and great handling. I traded my Fly BMW GTU-R away, it was the most expensive car in my collection and wouldn't hook up regardless of the set-up.

PD, the best out of the box the Carrera Audi A4 DTM is the best. Throw on some Indy Grips and a second neo bar magnet and it's a 400 gram screamer. The cars have the ability to add magents and change the position of the existing magents without taking the car apart. A good second choice is the Duller Motorsports Carrera BMW Z4, fast and great handling. I traded my Fly BMW GTU-R away, it was the most expensive car in my collection and wouldn't hook up regardless of the set-up.

Heck! After seeing the work you did on the Lancia I just may want a livery like that! That car is sweet lookin man! :cool:

We don't do any magnet racing, other than when my daughter and I race on my home plastic track. And even then, its usually a short period of time and we back to racing magnetless cars. Still, that livery is growing on me more and more!

Thanks for the info and feedback!
PD2:thumbsup:

I know what you mean by getting away from the magents. The club I'm involved with here uses a 500 gram weight rule and many of us are trying to cut that in half. My own track will use whatever the stock average is rounded up to the nearest hundreth. So say a stock NASCAR runs 323 grams, we round that up to 400 and allow a spec silicone tire. That usually does it.

I know what you mean by getting away from the magents. The club I'm involved with here uses a 500 gram weight rule and many of us are trying to cut that in half. My own track will use whatever the stock average is rounded up to the nearest hundreth. So say a stock NASCAR runs 323 grams, we round that up to 400 and allow a spec silicone tire. That usually does it.

Even at 400grams that is a heavy car for the NASCARs. The entry league is allowed to add weight to the magnetless cars, but in recent years they have cut the additional weight that can be added to the car. And each class had their own weight limits over all with weight added.

I would not mind doing a magnet race just to see what its like. I think our local track has those races on a different night.

PD2:thumbsup:

The round up occures because the Carrera NASCAR cars have more magnetic attraction than the SCX cars. My Camry/Monte Carlo has 280 grams while the Carrera cars have 323 grams. We could go an even 300 but then the carrera guys would need to magnet down a bit. My experience with the Camry is 280 and silicones are a good combination and it could even lose some stick, maybe down to 200. The rule I want adopted is being able to add the weight of the car only in magnetic downforce. With the magnet marshal this is pretty easy to find. You weight the car on it's side, when that's done re-zero the marshal and then set the car in the normal position. That way you get the pure car weight with the magnet and then the pure magnetic downforce. That way if a guy wants more magnet he has to put on more car weight. You'd have to have a maximum weight limit of course but the unattracted weight vs. the attracted weight would even out.