Palmer Divide Raceway - MAJOR Update 3/24/13!

[Dundee Denny]

WOW, missed this somehow, the imagination and craftmanship is steller!!

All sorts of ideas abound on your track

Appreciate the sharin!!

Dundee Denny

[dge467]

I missed it too! It is a beautiful track with some great looking structures!

[nhdungeonracer]

Wait til you see the track mascot.... :dance:

[dreinecke]

You mean this guy?



Thanks for the comments, glad you like the track.

I believe a DPDT switch would work. I don't usually drive it the other way, but have simply reversed the wires at the PSU to do so.

[dreinecke]

Well, I've actually had a little time to play :)

I'm in the process of making some billboards, telephone poles, flags for hanging between poles, and generally just sprucing a few things up. I hope to post some pics this weekend if I get it all done.

[HomeRacingWorld]

The joys of a new job. Look forward in seeing what you are up to sir.

[dreinecke]

Thanks, glad you like it. I'll try to make my scenery look ok...I don't want to bring HRW values down with my low-rent ex-model railroad attempts...

Here's one taken with my Kodak back in the day:

[MoparGreg]

Great David. Ive been waiting for the next update. I have to say PDR is my favorite track, both the layout & concept & scenery that is taking place. Nice one!!

[dreinecke]

M_Delaneyfan - glad you like the track and cars, thanks! No plans at this time for the later Z...I've thoughts of a 240 though.

Greg - you are too kind. All I see when I look at it are the mistakes. I keep wondering when SCC will show up on my doorstep and offer a free braid job? The only problem is that they would probably say that by free braid job they meant for all the hair on my back...

[HomeRacingWorld]

Hmmm the Braid Job Part 2?

I think it needs to be done. And I will have to be there to supervise. Those SCC guys need to be watched.

Perfect though, just the way it is.

[nhdungeonracer]

Sometime this summer? :shock:

[dreinecke]

Utility Poles - Now that scenery is moving along, I am starting to go back and "fill in" areas with things that have always been on the plans, just not done. I decided that PDR needed some utilities in order to power the track PA system, the eventual snack bar, etc. I started with some 1/4" dowel cut to 30 scale feet in height, added some balsa wood cross beams, some ladder steps made from standard staples and used some green clear beads as the insulators. A little stain and weathering and they look pretty good. I'm not going to wire them across the track as that would just make marshaling cars too difficult. They look pretty good as is in my eyes. I used two 1/8" dowels as the speaker poles, only about 20 scale feet in height and then attached thread and glued some triangular flags to them. I made the flags by cutting triangles of styrene and holding them over a candle until they furled a little before painting them. I think they look pretty period correct from the pictures I've researched.





Sponsor Signs - What track is complete without some signs promoting products at a race? Sticking with my desire to pay homage to some local businesses, I have added a few - most notably, Chief Petroleum Kerosene, Celebrity Sports Center (they had a slot car track at one time!), and Red Top Hamburgers. Great family owned place with HUGE burgers. Sadly, Red Top went under in 2012 and Celebrity has been gone much longer. I also added a few automotive related ones. All of these were printed on standard paper with an inkjet printer, glued to picture matting, and then cut and mounted to supports. I've weathered them slightly as they've probably been there all racing season. Home Racing World is of course my homage to my slot car "hangout" on the web.







Altogether:

[Ember]

Good to see you enjoying yourself again. The new bits all look great.

[dreinecke]

Embs, it has been a few months since I did anything so it is nice to see something getting done!

[bkrownd]

It will be fun to see the photo of my car on the world-famous PDR! :D