I understand that “it’s a thing”. I’m not into it at all but I own slot cars myself. I had 1/32 ones in the 80s, my uncle had them in the 60s. You’re missing my point.
In any scene, scale or real, race cars and show cars are usually two different things because one sucks at the other. Litterally always. A lot of the stuff I’m seeing here isn’t meant to ever leave the track once because it will for sure be destroyed. Typically competitive RC or actual Motorsport isn’t based around things that are suicidally fragile. Racing stuff is made to be raced and can typically handle going off or even rolling over with small setback. Lewis Hamilton isn’t actually wearing that huge watch. It’s a graphic on his glove.
I’m very into scale 1/24 auto and other models and have been all my life. I understand the appeal of crazy detail. I don’t understand crazy detail…motorized. It’s like playing catch with a $100 Xmas ornament when you could just use a ball thats easier to catch and resists dropping more.
My 1/24 autos are pretty. My 1/10 RC and 1/32 Mini4WD are ugly because they are made to crash 100 times rather than…litterally once and then just be a chassis and a million parts all over the basement floor.
Maybe I’m over thinking it. Maybe you guys just putz around like shriners in the pretty cars and have ugly beat to f bodies on the actual racers.
In any scene, scale or real, race cars and show cars are usually two different things because one sucks at the other. Litterally always. A lot of the stuff I’m seeing here isn’t meant to ever leave the track once because it will for sure be destroyed. Typically competitive RC or actual Motorsport isn’t based around things that are suicidally fragile. Racing stuff is made to be raced and can typically handle going off or even rolling over with small setback. Lewis Hamilton isn’t actually wearing that huge watch. It’s a graphic on his glove.
I’m very into scale 1/24 auto and other models and have been all my life. I understand the appeal of crazy detail. I don’t understand crazy detail…motorized. It’s like playing catch with a $100 Xmas ornament when you could just use a ball thats easier to catch and resists dropping more.
My 1/24 autos are pretty. My 1/10 RC and 1/32 Mini4WD are ugly because they are made to crash 100 times rather than…litterally once and then just be a chassis and a million parts all over the basement floor.
Maybe I’m over thinking it. Maybe you guys just putz around like shriners in the pretty cars and have ugly beat to f bodies on the actual racers.
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