T-Jet Racing El Camino vs Willys Auto World Slot Cars Straddling Northern Pacific

Model Railroad & Slot Car HO Racing Layout: Slot Cars in video: Chevrolet El Camino 1969 Chevrolet white Auto World Thunderjet Ultra G vs. Willys Custom 1941 Auto World Thunderjet Ultra G. HO Scale Trains in video: Northern Pacific EMD F7A&B diesel locomotive engines (Athearn) and eight Northern Pacific passenger cars (Rivarossi). The Chevy El Camino and the Willys are new self-built Auto World Deluxe Pit kits that had to be assembled and painted. The slot cars worked well with no glitches noted so far and were fun to run around the track, they stayed on the track very well going quite fast in speed on the straightaway tracks. The cars had nice range of speeds on the Parma controllers, so they could be slow through the curves and also sprint on straightaways. The T-Jets are narrower cars than the Xtraction, Super III, 4 gear or AFX and Lifelike slot cars. These T-Jets are nearly immune from crashing at the squeeze track even when they try to bump and disable the opponent. The El Camino was frequently faster driver and the Willys was more careful. We prioritize staying on the road and penalize going off the road. The El Camino was disabled more times so the Willys won. We do more like "road rally" than race, like the rally races that go through cities and towns at the speed limit and winning is to stay on road, not go off and hit the wall or worse, go on the floor. Slot Car Track layout has been engineered to keep cars rolling. Track sections have jumper soldered wiring. Also feed wires go to several of these jumper wires. Video is not at all in order or continuous, with only one camera on tripod that was moved around to various view angles during the race and the clips were edited and intermingled. Also 4X8 blue styrofoam sheets are moved around to screen out basement stuff especially during on board train video. Various lights were moved around as well. Postproduction also involves masking, screening, and framing. That has been my intention to make videos featuring the trains, slot cars scenery and structures without distractions, such as light fixtures, ceiling, windows, furnace, water heater, basement stuff and giant people and fingers appearing in videos.

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