My cars, ok so next few pics are just of the cars i have to date.

                   have  quite a few now and pretty pleased with all of them,
we had a few days of really hot weather and it got quite hot in the loft, and it caused quite a lot of problems with the track lifting and bucling and was completley unusable, however after couple of cool days id did settle down an is running fine now, had my brother in law over with his electic testing thing an we sorted track out with the current problems, and had a few hours of some good racing too.
  however it has got me thinking of what to do with track to avoid future problems,
so im thinking weather to either glue or pin track down or even to go as far as starting all over again and make a wooden routed track and have three lanes. but not decided yet..                      

Finish of hairpin end

Ok  little while since my last blog, have now come really close to finish of this project, so have laid down stoney gravel in this area, and quite pleased with result.

     pretty pleased with this end of track now,
 Had a race night with few of my mates and evening went really well the r.m.s worked really well and was great fun, however there was a section of track along the far back straight that was causing some problems with some of the cars in that they kept coming to a stop and needed a little nudge with the granny grabber which was a bit frustating, so decided to rip this section up and replace with new track as i still had loads left over,    

 Ok so was a bit of a mission to replace this section had to remove fence an grandstands so i could get up on table, also put in more support for this bit of track think that was main problem it never laid flat so some times cars braids would leave the slot an car would come to a stop,

 so after stands an fence put back was worth the effort as all cars run round really well now,  i think with having a layout in the loft or even basement unless you are able to fully insulate walls floor and ceiling the temperature changes can be dramatic from hot to cold, so any elevated track that is not supported properly will really react to temperature changes,

  Heres a michelin advert gantry looks pretty cool. next few pics are  just scenery shots plus also the cable car now in place which is pretty cool.

 This second loop area is so difficult to actualy reach to try an do anything with in terms of sculpting  so have placed a truck an fork lift in there an i think i can live with it as is.

   ok my next blog will be my collection of cars have quite a few now so will put up pics an with there lap times, so stay tuned....................                                                                                                                                                                          

lights

So had an idea for lights round the track, found thease little battery operated led lights and made some sort of fllood light stand for them not too bad i  reckon.

 also made some lights for an advert gantry to go the length of the hair pin end.

    then painted with a few adverts

                                                                               
                       and this is what it looks like in dark for night racing,

   Pretty cool i reckon, getting pretty close to the finish of this project now as in terms of the scalextric only small amounts of scenery work to do, however there is more work in loft i would like to do will eventualy replace paper on roof joist with plasterboard and paint and would also like to fit window in loft on left side,
but i think now at the right place to invite mates over for a race night  so will let you know how that goes.......