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Niels Kjær
Denmark
Malling
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I have been thinking about 3D tracks for a long time now: how to make them, store them and transport them, and which scale would be fitting.
I decided that if I am to make more than one, then 1:43 would probably not be good idea, as those circuits would be too big to store - nevermind the price of the cars.
1:87 seems better, but again, more than one and it starts to become a very large amount of circuit to store. The cars are less expensive (and owuld also be usable for das motorsportspiel), but if I want formula cars, it does not seem to be easy.
1:250 it is, which means I can use the FD cars and scenery that I have already made.
Unfortunately for this idea I have for a long time lacked the drive to start on it, and combined with the inability to get the right ideas it prompted me to work on the buildings and scenery instead.
I now have a tiny bit of sparetime in the evenings again, so I decided to give the circuit another go - inspired by watching the movie "Cars 2" - the Italian track in that movie looks stunning!
Last week I went to the local store and got some wood for the base and 10mm foamcore (or is it called styrofoam or something else?) for the landscape.
Given that I am new at this stuff, I decided on an almost completely flat track with no scenery but woods - I can add complications on the next one if I am happy with the first.
I chose Jyllandsringen for the first track:
It a basic track with almost nothing but track and woods.
While the landscape seems to be possible to do fairly nicely (I have a map of the landscape), I have had many thoughts about the track itself, and even put brackets on a piece of wood in order to fix 4 pens so that they could do the lines for hte three lanes as a draft. With my drawing abilities the result would never go beoynd "draft - paint over before playing"-stage.
I have found a thermocutter on hte net for the foamcore, and I am a bit excited about the possibilities in it. With luck, I can use it to cut the spaces manually and glue them to the board, that would be way cooler than painting the spaces (and likely also more time consuming).
My main worry currently is the weight of the wood.
If anybody have a good idea about what wood can be used for the base (not too thick or heavy, but very stiff), I would love to hear it.
In the meantime, I am off, holding my breath in anticipation of my new toy playth tool 
Thanks for reading!
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