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"Gentlemen, start your engines!" It is time for Proxy Race II - The SCCA Corvette by Mark Gussin |
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You may know that Fantasy World and Old Weird Herald ran the first Proxy race earlier this year, superbly managed by Bob Ward. I didn't enter. It looked great though with all varities of entry. I vowed I'd do something for the next race, Proxy Race II. Well that takes place on 17th October 1999 and here are my entries. I am really pleased to enter because this time there is more emphasis on appearance and as you can tell from this web site, I like the slot cars that I make to be accurate renditions of real racing cars. I did two cars for the Production catagory. A Corvette and a Trans Am Mustang. The Corvette is detailed below and here's the link to the Mustang.Mustang This car is modelled on the Owens Corning SCCA
Corvette raced by Tony DeLorenzo in 1970. The main trouble was I only
have one reference photograph I installed mounting posts for a Monogram type
chassis which came in useful when the painting went wrong because of the
thirty-something red plastic leaching through the white paint. Solution;
I made a resin cast using a two part mold (the body posts are ideal for
resin pooring). This I did and it all turned out OK. This resin body was
painted The Interior used the cut down kit dash with
lots of plasticard and a soldered (and functional) brass roll-bar. The
To the chassis; well I am not very adept at building my own chassis for a "race" so this was completely new territory for me. Advice came from a good number of people but special thanks go to Russell Sheldon and Chris Briggs. In the end though it was quite unimaginative using Chas Keeling's SCD motor bracket on a brass chassis using square section brass to brace the chassis and motor bracket. The source of the brass was a builders merchants and came in the form of a door kicker plate, so this and every subsequent slot car I do (I have enough brass to do many), should be nicknamed the "Kicker Plate Specials". I designed the chassis as I went along, it took ages and probably isn't very square as I didn't do it in a jig. I also used Chas' wheels which were especially turned to enable wheel inserts to be accommodated (appearance is important). I made some resin inserts to fit from some Cox Cheetah wheels. Front wheels were Delrin, turned down by Chas again, on a 1/16" axle. I have absolutely no idea if it is going to run OK as I don't have a suitable track to test it on but whatever happens, it looks good and was great fun doing. |
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I started with a junk box Revell 1969 body that I'd had for years. The
roof and rear pillars were removed and the bonnet bulge added in much
the same way Mike Sells describes doing his static car elsewhere on this
web site. My car differs from Mike's in that it is a later car, raced
in 1970, has widened wheel arches and a different paint job. It also goes
as it is a slot car rather than a static! 
white
and then masked and the red applied. The only proprietary decals were
the "M" decals on the side, the Owens Corning decals were reduced from
a 1:24th scale kit, everything else was either masked, used decal film
or decal stripe. As you can see from the picture above I had no rear end
detail but fortunately, after searching for ages I found a black and white
picture in an old Autocourse that I was just able to see the stripe, number
and livery detail.
body
was detailed up and the later Monogram Corvette screen was cut down and
added to give that SCCA look. The driver's body is from Fly's Viper and
the head is a resin repro of the Monogram F1 driver's head.