UtherJoe,

Great Scott you Mercury Surgical skills are Fantastic! Looking good in the ho neighborhood....yeah baby! That convertible conversion is a cool idea man. No Gnome in the rear seat so, the driver doesn't have to worry about the snipping affect.............aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah :freak:

Bob...Slickster III is almost done & yes it is a Mercury...zilla

P.S. Gonna keep the Slickster III for myself to race against the Original Slickster you sent Fletcher. Yeah it will be some fun racing. Feels good to keep one for yourself once in a while huh? :)

Landscape looks great, Ujoe! :thumbsup:

As for the sL.E.D with the top down.......
Dang! that looks amazing. How do I get the top to go down on mine? :D

Cool sledding L.E.D. man!!! Looking good with the soft lights glowing down the highway. I like the country setting with the red barn out back!!! If you would paint "See Rock City" on the top, it'd be perfect, (that's a southern thing you see on barns, referrring to visit Lookout Mountain, Chattanooga, TN)...RM

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Thanks for the the link to the cuda source. One problem though...there are too many bodies that I like that are listed on the site!

Bob...Slickster III is almost done & yes it is a Mercury...zilla

P.S. Gonna keep the Slickster III for myself to race against the Original Slickster you sent Fletcher. Yeah it will be some fun racing. Feels good to keep one for yourself once in a while huh? :)

Yes Bob, It does feel good to make one for me!! And it isn't a total reject either!! :lol: I think I'm going to take the enamel silver off the windshield posts and try some BMF. The enamel isn't holding very well.



As for the sL.E.D with the top down.......
Dang! that looks amazing. How do I get the top to go down on mine?

Sorry I didn't put the easy button on yours Joe!! Maybe on the next one!!

Cool sledding L.E.D. man!!! Looking good with the soft lights glowing down the highway. I like the country setting with the red barn out back!!! If you would paint "See Rock City" on the top, it'd be perfect, (that's a southern thing you see on barns, referrring to visit Lookout Mountain, Chattanooga, TN)...RM

Ahhh yes!! Lookout Mountain!!! See 7 states!!!! One of them tourist attractions I must have passed by 100 times and never had a chance to see.. I am pretty sure there are dry transfer decals for that.. I'll look into it!!

And Gear Head, There are too much of everything on that site!!! Hide your wallet and check out the add on accessories like motors, hood scoops, and decals... I'm supposed to be saving money for a trip to FL and it appears every week my balance goes down instead of up!! :wave:

Love the new Avi Joe!

Cool conv. Cruising on a saturday night WOOHOO!!!!!!!

Scenicin' a track sure is messy!!! And fun!!! But more messy than fun... I finally have gotten around to laying out the green on the table... I got tired if looking at snow covered plaster cloth.. Spring has sprung in Stump City!! :thumbsup:

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I still have a bunch to do, and then the whole grassy areas need to be sprayed with another shot of watered down elmers just to help keep it in place. Once that is done, a major track clean up will be needed, and then we can go back to running!! It's not the most detailed job.. It's hard to put any real effort into something I'm sure will be getting ripped up in the next year or two.. But at least it won't be bare white plaster anymore!! :wave:

Great start! :)

Just looks like green snow to me...JUST KIDDING...lol :lol::jest:

Hey I noticed Barney has a chainsaw....Rrrrrrrrrrrrrr, rrrrrrr,rrrr he is already to help you tear this down ...rrrrrrrrrrr,rrrrrr

Bob...it isn't easy beeing green...zilla

The chainsaw toting Barneys were to be part of a mini diorama with a space ship. I was looking for a cheap fiber optic hippie lamp but one never materialized and the project faded from memory. It would have been good too.. kinda reminiscent of the Flintstones episode where the space ship lands in Bedrock and the alien take on Fred's form and walks around saying nothing but "yabba dabba doo". But in my version, all they can pick up on TV is a Barney marathon and TX chainsaw massacre...and the rest use your imagination. :tongue::lol::jest::cool::thumbsup::):wave:

Just when you thought it was safe to run your slot cars, Interscope Pictures presents Night of the Living Barnys Chainsaw Masacre directed by Tobe Hooper and George Romero. Just keep repeating "it's only a movie", it's only a movie"...
What's on your layout?

You got it Russ!!! I just wish I had gotten all the pieces of the puzzle!! :lol:

Looking good slot. :thumbsup::thumbsup:

Trick 'vert sled Ujoe!

I was following along awaiting the end game and lost track....day job ya know. Sorry I missed the debut. :cry:

Excellent choice for mayhem...duh... completely obvious when ya see it! I like the rake and height on the glass. It really sells the whole package. Great execution. :thumbsup::thumbsup:

One corner of the track (city portion) needed a little help in the lighting department. Even an extra lamppost wasn't helping. So out comes the soldering iron and a handful of 1.6 mm LEDs in a variety of colors and "Voila!!" instant Used Car Lot lighting. This method of stringing LEDs can also be used for year round trailer park lighting, bar/club lights and of course, Xmas!

Here's a before peek at the corner...

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And here's a couple of after shots...

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Granted, the before shot was taken at night, and the after shots taken mid afternoon, but I think the effect is pretty dramatic!!! I need to put together a couple more strings!!!! I think a more subdued bar will be in the downstairs level of the hotel I'm building for across the street...

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Officer Sponge Bob has the situation under control. The cool lights were a cool idea, SCMan. Of course, you are an idea kinda guy so it shouldn't be a surprise that you had a nuther one.

Rock On, SCMan!

Officer Sponge Bob has the situation under control. The cool lights were a cool idea, SCMan. Of course, you are an idea kinda guy so it shouldn't be a surprise that you had a nuther one.

Rock On, SCMan!


Bob...Yep the slotcarman does it again...light up if yah got them...zilla

Nice lighted car lot Sltman!!! Gives you that Christmas feeling, all those cars under the lights. Those are the lights I wanted to use for track conditon lights - green, caution and red flag. Looks good :thumbsup::thumbsup: RM

Those LED light strings are easy peasy!!! :thumbsup: The only hard part I ran into was some of the LEDs aren't marked for the + or - so I had to break out the magnifier to see which end was which. They use 2.0 volts each X 9 = 18 volts.. No resistor required.. I simply soldered them in chains of 9 and fed the power to the + ends (soldered together) and grounded the other ends.. I had more trouble putting them on the table than making them because they are right over a cross brace, which is my usual bad luck!!:lol:

Cool lights:thumbsup::dude:

AAAHhhhhhhh the colors the colors..................

After putting it off for a year, Stump City Hotel has finally re-opened it's doors. This is my first LED lit building, and was placed to supply me with an excuse to get much needed light on crossing gate photo sensors. I really need to work on my modeling skills a bit more, as it didn't come out anywhere near as good as I hoped.... Here's a few pic's for you visual type guys...

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Conveniently located close to the RR Station, Stump City Cinema, my refrigerator, and Pete's Meats.. Wait a minute..that's not a good thing!! :lol:

Looks seedy with those red lights :thumbsup:

As seedy as the rest of the town is, I guess it's a good thing!!!! The LEDs for the rooms are white, the red curtains are creating that seedy effect. The only colored LEDs are in the tavern on the 1st floor right half. When you rent rooms by the hour..... seedy just comes naturally!! :lol:

Kinda what I thought with all the red, a 3 story above cat house, "No Animals Allowed"!!! I do like it lit up though!!! Lights just add a little livelyhood...RM

Full occupancy!

Looks like a busy saturday night!

Ujoe,

I Just had to make a Roxanne reference to this before the Hutt got here and beat me to it. :roll::roll::roll::roll::roll::roll::roll::roll:

Bob...You don't have to wear that dress tonight...zilla

Great Flop House Slot!!!!

Curse you with your bllinding speed Bob Zilla! Now I gotta think of another song reference and Schiziod man is locked in my brain!!!

The town is looking good, SCMan. It's the kinda place that would look good as a backdrop for a Frank Miller story.

All the lights are white
And the curtains are red
Sponge Bob's walking the beat
streets filled with living dead

visions of ghouls and goblins
dancing all through my head
Stump City dreaming
That's what I said

Thinking of songs and looking at slot cars is thirsty work. Uno mas tequila por favor!

Hutt:drunk::hat::freak::dude::tongue:

I spent a good portion of the day working on my RR crossing gates, so that they'll operate as designed.. I finally dug out the brackets, the tortoise switch machine and the cables that make the gates move. Everything is mounted on the table, but with the running around I also had to do I ran out of time before I could finish. Hopefully, tomorrow I will be able to post up a video of the whole shebang in operation. Fingers are crossed it all works as planned!!

and post 372 clearly shows the kitchen fridge in the backround, slots cars in da kitchen, weeeeeeeeeee dogggie

and notice, not just 1, but 2 killer Barney's.

Actually, there's a third killer Barney around somewhere.. He's on the shy side!! LOL. Yes, as I said... Stump City is conviently located close to the RR Station, Stump City Cinema, my refrigerator, and Pete's Meats..


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Room 201 is especially popular, as you get a great view of Pete's lovely wife Bertha (as in Big Bertha...Bertha Butt) through Pete's upstairs front window....


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And on a fun note, my brother in law stopped by with my niece this weekend!!! She's only 3 1/2 years old, but that didn't matter!! It took a few laps to get things moving smoothly, and a few more laps to get the hang of the controller, but within 10 minutes she was cruising around the track pretty good!!!!!


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And before you ask, .....
1. No Bertha ain't wearing any clothes... Although she did have Omar the tent maker over for dinner last night, I don't think there's enough left of him to pull a needle..

2. I got my doodads and gizmo's in today, but my resin stuff won't be here til next Tuesday.. I don't want to say anything looks promising for fear of jinxing myself further...

3. The crossing gates are, like everything else I touch lately, are messed up and more work is required. I did spend 3 hours on my back under the table trying to get everything working, but one set of gates broke on me, and rigging it up half @zzed isn't cutting it.

I've been cracking up about the Pete's Meats. Here in Houston, over off of Richmond, there really is a place called "Pete's Fine Meats." They are probably one of the only true butcher places left around! They also have some great lunch specials too! Ah yes, Pete's Meats are always the finest meats. LOL!!!

PD2:thumbsup:

Ujoe,

That picture of your 3 1/2 year old Niece smiling with that controler is priceless!

Just remember that your track is waaaay more detailed than about 99.99% of ours so, you got special thingys that can go wrong. You'll get it in time. :) I love your layout man. Far Out! Keep the pics coming please! :thumbsup:

Bob...try, try and try again...zilla

Well, my parts came in... I looked at them, and put them down... Looked at them again... and still couldn't bring myself to try them. Well today I finally gave it a shot.. 1/2 way to sucess is better that not at all I guess!!!

This is a homemade module with a 1K ohm resistor and full wave bridge rectifier with a small capacitor. It'll drive the headlights ok, or the taillights ok. But for some reason, it won't drive both... YET. I think I need to adjust the value of the resistor down a notch, and put a small 1/4 watt 120 ohm into the taillight circuit. The LEDs are in series for the front, and the back also, but require different resistance to work properly. I guess because they share the resistor now it's throwing it off.. Back to the drawing board as Wile E says....

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P.S. I also got these thingamajiggies in too.. They are still a bit big, but a little trimming and it may be the answer to the lighted snap on AFX style easy access lighted body, and they also are ok with the TJet posts for easy access too...

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Dang Sltman, that's some small engineering!!! By the way, How's the windshield wipers coming??? 12 volt should run them maybe??? Jus ragging ya a little. That's a lot of work, but the lights do look good, much much better than factory!!! RM

As soon as I can find a supplier for the wiper blades, I'll jump right on it!!! LOL!! Me and my fat clumsy fingers working them little parts is tough for sure. It ended up too thick and even at the long wheelbase holes it hits the axle. The resistors are expensive , which is one of the reasons I dragged my feet on this exercise.. I was only able to swing four of them this time around. The price per drops at 100 pcs., but then I'd still need $170.00+ to get them at that piece price. Until I know for sure the correct values I need to make this all work right, I'll need to just get 5 or 6 of a couple different ohm resistors and try to get the mix right.

Adding to my frustration is my desire to make a circuit board set up for these, and eventually encapsulate them in potting compound to shield them electrically from shorts, help dissipate heat, and to keep my secret formula as secret as possible. Hey, the colonel does it with his 11 herbs and spices... The parts being used here are designed for robotic assembly, so making my own PCB's may be the way to go down the road. I need to experiment with a couple other mounting positions as they sit taller than the gear plate on this set up. The excessive thickness is mostly my own doing, by putting the capacitor on the back.

I did snip the wire for the tail lights and add another resistor to the mix, and got all the lights working, but I think they need a little more juice. The 820 ohm resistor is on my next shopping list... along with 120 ohm 1/4 watts for the tail lights. Some day I might just get it all down!! :) Also, my clear resin and silicone putty is scheduled to be delivered tomorow.. Fingers are crossed... Almost time to fire up the mill and make some tail lights!! :thumbsup:

Ujoe,

Who is Herb?

Bob...you are a Genius Wy-lee-ky-oat-ee...zilla

SCMan, you don't do any thing by halves! Man, that is some sweet citcuit work. The main empressive thing is that it is really really small! I worked for a small electronics job shop in the early 80's. Nearly all of our employees were small young women due to their small hands and good dexterity. I know it would be tough for me to get my 10 thumbs to work on anything as small as the parts you're trying to honcho around that PC board.

Most awesome work, SCMan! :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

Since the system won't allow me to give you 10 thumbs I'll stop at 4.

Can I order my next car with a working ciggy lighter and glove box lamp?

Can I order my next car with a working ciggy lighter and glove box lamp?

Well...... Can we just go with a T Puff chassis and use (as Sponge Bob and Patrick say) " our Imaginaaaaaation"????? :lol::jest::roll::tongue:

I'm getting close to getting this right so bear with me guys!! :thumbsup:

Way too tiny for me to work with. Hope you find theright combo soon.

You know, it's got to be my luck.. It's a holiday weekend, I go to mix my first attempt at resin tail lights, and I find out the colorant I received is blue instead of red. Maybe I should go into the smurf casting business instead.. :lol: I talked to the owner on the place I purchased from (he actually answers his phone and even supplies his cell phone on his website) and a new bottle will be next day mailed to me. But in the meantime, I am trying out the lenses in blue to see if it'll even cure up in the tiny amounts I'm using. Only time will tell...:rolleyes:

You know, it's got to be my luck.. It's a holiday weekend, I go to mix my first attempt at resin tail lights, and I find out the colorant I received is blue instead of red. Maybe I should go into the smurf casting business instead.. :lol: I talked to the owner on the place I purchased from (he actually answers his phone and even supplies his cell phone on his website) and a new bottle will be next day mailed to me. But in the meantime, I am trying out the lenses in blue to see if it'll even cure up in the tiny amounts I'm using. Only time will tell...:rolleyes:

All is not lost, SCMan. Search back in your past and find the movie Heavy Metal. Channel Stevie Nick's contribution to the sound track and you will have use for the blue lamps. :freak:

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Russ the Hutt

The second attempt at doing a camaro for honda has it's bright spots, and ends on a glowing sour note!! I had good luck using my new electrical connectors, and managed to make an easy access electrical connection.. Nice not having an umbilical cord tying the body to the chassis!! Here's a couple pictures, and check back tomorrow and I'll post up a couple more.



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This works out good set up as the body is.. I figured because I'm using red fiber optic plugs in the tail light holes, I can use white LEDs throughout. This means an easy hot at one post, a simple chain of LEDs in series, and the neg down the back post. 1st attempt with the yellow camaro was a dud. I had a bad LED and nothing worked. I went back to the bench and found out where the problem was, and redid the fronts. I still have one LED out in front, and I'm not sure the cause. All it takes is a drip of solder to bridge the annode and cathode of the LED to bypass it. Here's the big problem though...

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I done made a double ended "Lame Thrower"!!!!! If I wanted glow in the dark cars, I'd buy them without all the hassle!! :lol: I need to redo the whole thing again, and silver paint the entire interior before installation.. Two steps fowards.... 1 1/2 steps back....:cry:

Hey Ujoe,]

Will come back an check this Honda/Camaro deal out later. Maybe a Nissan/Mustang would have been easier? :rolleyes: LOL

Don't worry dude...just grab a Jelly Filled and it will work out for yah!

Bob...I never get the Jelly Filled (it is alway that white filled long johns or a plain glazed)...zilla

SCM,
You could leave it that way and use it for "Night Racin". :) rr

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If I wanted glow in the dark cars, I'd buy them without all the hassle!! :lol:

.... Save this one fer Halloween joeLED!! ;) nd

Hmmmmm.... A Camar-O-Lantern.......

Maybe this one should have gone in the shop!! :lol: :hat: :jest: :freak: :roll: