by taskak » Mon Oct 23, 2017 7:27 am
Thanks guys!
Lloyd, like you said with little work these bodies could be used.
That's was the case, only little bit of sanding and trimming is done so far.
But the there is still a lot of work to be done before they are finished, Alpine needs front bumpers and rally lights at least.
I was planning to go for street car look with these cars but the Alpine turned out to be a real smooth runner.
I decided to paint both cars with the same blue color I used on a Amarok truck and add 1971 Monte Carlo liveries to Alpine.
So if you ever decide to have a Little Monte Rally proxy I got something that fits the theme.
Motor is Micro Scalextric motor, but I can't find any specs about it.
Works well on my track, bought 10 chassis without axles and wheels for 1,7€ each, shipped.
I had one in the Ascona on last ProNoMag.
I don't know does Peter member anything about motor performance of that car, or did the car even stayed on a track long enough :D
Speaking of that car, it had brass plate chassis made from 0.5 mm brass with the same motor.
Chassis was too soft, the Amarok chassis is similar than that but both front and rear end are much more stiffer.
This was done by adding small pieces of brass to both end.
This new type chassis is mostly made from 1 mm brass, except "sidepans".
Even that it looks in the pictures very heavy this new type chassis of Alpine weights only 32g.
Ascona's brass plate chassis is actually 3g heavier.
The whole Alpine car, body and chassis weights currently 38g, body that Lloyd has made is really thin and of course it's very small car too.
And there is lot of weight that can be removed from the chassis by trimming and by drilling holes to the frame.