Coyote Cavern
WOW!! That track looks amazing!!! Would love to send a car or two when your ready to start races!!
Awesome track, truly top notch work! I hope to have a chance to race on it. You put in a lot of work and it shows!!
Here's the coyote for alva1370's roadrunner...
- Hardcastle and McCormick! — SpyDude
- AWESOME! — Dutch_Clutch_Racing
- Perfect. I always liked this car. — alva1370
- I believe some were used in the classic Death Race 2000 — GBURacing
- @GBU: No, none were used in the making of Death Race 2000. https://www.imcdb.org/movie_72856-Death-Race-2000.html — SpyDude
- The Coyote used in the first season of Hardcastle & McCormick was a kit based on the McLaren M6A. The second and third series used a different kit, which was based on the DeLorean. This particular one is actually a 1981 DeLorean DMC 12 under that pretty sleek body. https://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_345587-De-Lorean-DMC-12-1981.html — SpyDude
You guys flatter me terribly. I was not expecting such praise and I am greatful for your kind words.
I'm just an old guy puttering in my workshop. I've never organized or hosted any races, and am somewhat intimidated by the prospect. If you guys sent me cars to race, I'd owe you some useful feedback, like a video of a stuctured competition. I haven't installed cameras yet, much less learned to video edit and provide color comentary. Would love to do that, but it's a ways off. Modding cars for performance was what I figured was next, and I can see that it is a whole nother obsesion.
Thanks again for the encouragement.
- Don't worry about color commentary, just put some good tunes in the background and let the cars do the "talking" ;) — JBlotner42
- Hosting seems tough, I salute the guys who hold races. — alva1370
- I retired a year and a half ago and got serious about editing/filming. It's also a lot of fun. — dr_dodge
Such a terrific theme for the diorama, kudos! Highly convincing, even if I could spot what material you used near the far right top of the set, the design and deco still give wind eroded desert sandstone distinctly
The drift actuator mechanism immediately grabbed me for sure, gotta check out the link you replied elsewhere!
Edit: took out a section of text that in hindsight doesn't seem to apply much here, and the one lap shown in the video, super fun -- I must have let that go around about five more times. That drift area with the red car worked swimmingly letting it overtake the other
- the drift pad took a long time to get a reasonable number of good drifts. You never get them all. At least, not on an open track. Early on, a drift like the one in that video would have taken 20 runs. Full disclosure, that one was the best of 4, with the other 3 not all that bad. A 2 car race has the best chance of a good drift because a 4 car race increases the risk that one stupid car will f up the others at the drift. But once in a while, when everything is just right, the stars align and the trailing car will drift perfectly and overtake the 3 others for the win. It's almost better than ... — Snapshot
- @Snapshot: You're never going to get the cars to drift all the time, but you've managed a 70% rate of getting the cars to drift. That's HUGE in this sport: most people have only been able to go to about 55%. Don't be surprised if people start begging you to send them the plans for your drift pad mechanism. — SpyDude
Your build is an excellent balance between realism and fantasy just like the toy cars that partake in very real competition.
Great job! Love the "rock" work... very creative!