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My Recent Posts · (02/28/08

great looking track!!Keep those pictures coming!!

Rusty

My Recent Posts · (02/29/08

We now have the banking and slight elevation changes done including a shallow corkscrew turn. I'm trying to make the layout look naturat without going to extreme elevation changes. Still lots of work to do.

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My Recent Posts · (03/02/08

Tom,

It is looking great! Git 'er done!!!

Keep us posted on the progress!

My Recent Posts · (03/04/08

Well, we're making slow progress, but it's progress! The old hands and arms just don't work as fast as they used to. Without my son helping I don't think that it would get built!

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This turn is not really off camber,It actually has a shallow banking all the way around. The fact that it is desending combined with the news print we covered it with plays an optical trick on the camera.

My Recent Posts · (03/05/08

Won't be long now, looking good.

Pete

My Recent Posts · (03/08/08

Here are some images of our latest work on the track. We have our basic contours done, now all we have to do is finish up the parking lots, roads, paths, grass, lake, and trees! Not to mention the hedges and smaller flora, and all of the buildings. It will get there!

Tom

My Recent Posts · (03/08/08

That's really lookin' good Ragnar. And Holy Smokes, you're just rockin' & rollin' putting that thing together. I think it took me close to 3 or 4 months to get that far along and my track's only about 6'x12'. After a year, I've finally gotten my dirt painted on and getting ready to start planting grass. Keep it up and keep thast kid busy too. You'll be done in no time; long before me anyway. Keep the progress pics coming too. I really like your track.

My Recent Posts · (03/09/08

slider2 wrote:
That's really lookin' good Ragnar. And Holy Smokes, you're just rockin' & rollin' putting that thing together. I think it took me close to 3 or 4 months to get that far along and my track's only about 6'x12'. After a year, I've finally gotten my dirt painted on and getting ready to start planting grass. Keep it up and keep thast kid busy too. You'll be done in no time; long before me anyway. Keep the progress pics coming too. I really like your track.

Thank you for your comments. Sometimes I have tell myself not to rush it, but it seems like every track I build takes longer than the last one.

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Tom

My Recent Posts · (03/09/08

Well the excavation crews have been busy, and they've excavated out Lake Margaret. I hope the images we have been posting will help some of the newer people to see the steps needed to do the scenery, and I'm trying to post these to let people know that you can build a competitive racetrack and still have natural looking scale scenery. I hope I'm succeeding!

Wide view of the lake area

Close up view of the lake

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Tom

My Recent Posts · (03/18/08

Well, here's our latest update! We've got grass, and some foot paths, a lake, and garage buildings in place. At the moment, the grandstands are sitting on the back straight, waiting for the area they belong in to dry.

Here's our lake and what will be a pedestrian area around it.

One of our three elevated areas on the track. We'll have more detail on it later.

Hill #2. Again, needs detailing. This is our corkscrew turn around this hill.

And here's the full view of the track so far. Still a lot to go!

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