upgrades at the Crossroads speedway
Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2014 8:36 amThought i would share some upgrades going on the Crossroads Speedway.
Many of you have seen some of the pictures i have posted of my 1/32 scale Dirt track. The setting is circa late 50's/ early 60's southern red clay.Over the last few months we have been developing several vintage classes,and have started holding midget racing and BBQ every Saturday night,with bombers and jalopy classes during the day.In an effort to create some scale realism's I have added a dirt track announcer and race/crowd sounds along with period background music that plays throughout the races,and during intermissions.This weekend will see (hopefully) the installation of the Green and yellow LED bulbs that will be recessed in the Artin lower walls on the turns.The green lights will be on as soon as the race starts using the trackmate system signifying all is good to go. The yellow lights will come on with any track calls from the six driver stations to signify caution,and they will flash till track power comes back on,and the green lights are on once again.
Another feature in the works and should be installed by raceday,is the simulated smoke from a crash in the corners.
This is being achieved by using a small fog machine wired to the yellow light track relay,and piped into the holes drilled in the bottom of the turn slots in several common crash areas.I have the under table boxes for the smoke machine built,and only to install them this week.Overall i think these upgrades or additions should add some fun realism to the over all racing.All the special effects can be turned of separately for practice days and mostly used for our Saturday night races.
Should be great with sights and sounds of racing combined with the track lighting for night racing and even some good old radiator smoke in the event of a pile up in the turns!
I will post pictures as progress is made.
Happy Racing!
Bob
Many of you have seen some of the pictures i have posted of my 1/32 scale Dirt track. The setting is circa late 50's/ early 60's southern red clay.Over the last few months we have been developing several vintage classes,and have started holding midget racing and BBQ every Saturday night,with bombers and jalopy classes during the day.In an effort to create some scale realism's I have added a dirt track announcer and race/crowd sounds along with period background music that plays throughout the races,and during intermissions.This weekend will see (hopefully) the installation of the Green and yellow LED bulbs that will be recessed in the Artin lower walls on the turns.The green lights will be on as soon as the race starts using the trackmate system signifying all is good to go. The yellow lights will come on with any track calls from the six driver stations to signify caution,and they will flash till track power comes back on,and the green lights are on once again.
Another feature in the works and should be installed by raceday,is the simulated smoke from a crash in the corners.
This is being achieved by using a small fog machine wired to the yellow light track relay,and piped into the holes drilled in the bottom of the turn slots in several common crash areas.I have the under table boxes for the smoke machine built,and only to install them this week.Overall i think these upgrades or additions should add some fun realism to the over all racing.All the special effects can be turned of separately for practice days and mostly used for our Saturday night races.
Should be great with sights and sounds of racing combined with the track lighting for night racing and even some good old radiator smoke in the event of a pile up in the turns!
I will post pictures as progress is made.
Happy Racing!
Bob