ARTIN 1/32 TRACK LAYOUTS

Enclosed find my entry for the contest.
COMPACT BUT A LOT OF FUN
Frank - Here's the particulars on my Artin track.
Layout size is 6'x12'. Artin 4 lane set, set up as two lanes. With the crossovers and extra straights it's about 45'. Power is by RadioShack 14v 3amp, Parma 45ohm controllers, power tap at the halfway mark. The elevated section is permanent but the flat parts of the course can be changed for variety. I plan on adding another four feet to extend the staight at some point. We have an Artin lap timer but are converting the sensor track for Laptimer2000.
The buildings are mostly scratch built from foam board and mat board (I'm a picture framer) and some Carrera4fun buildings. People are various Scalextric, Homies and cheap toys from the dollar store repainted. Some 1/32 diecast vehicles for the pedestrians. Track lighting by Lionel and the buildings are lighted also. Thanks to you folks at SCW and Artin for helping to fuel the industry and my new addiction!
Brian Ready , Katonah, NY
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HERE IS SOME PIC. OF MY ARTIN TRACK,IT IS 4'X18'
WITH A ADD ON THE BACK TURN TO MAKE IT 7 1/2' OUT
FROM THE BACK-WALL.ME AND MY TWO BOYS WHO
ARE 6 AND 4.WE HAD A HO TRACK SET UP
ON THE FLOOR,THAY LOVED IT, BUT THE CARS WHERE
JUST TOO SMALL FOR THEM AND ME.LOOKED ON THE
WEB FOUND HOME RACING WORLD.SAW THE ARTIN
4 LANE SET , THOUGHT THAT WOULD BE
WONDERFUL WE COULD ALL RACE AT THE SAME TIME,
AND NOT HAVE TO SPEND THE LIFES SAVING TOO DO IT.
SO ORDER ARTIN 4 LANE SET,4 STRAIGHTS AND
SAMLX 7-10 AMP POWER SUPPLY FROM HOME RACING WORLD.
GOT TO SAY ,GOT THE ORDER VERY FAST.HAD IT SETUP
ON THE FLOOR AND RACING IN 30 MINS.WE ALL LOVED IT
SO MUCH THOUGHT I MAKE A TABLE TO SET IT UP ON.
AND WELL I GUESS THE SLOT-CAR BUG GOT ME.IT WAS 5 WEEKS LATER
AND HAD ADD FELT GRASS, PLASTER PARIS HILL,
SOUND PAD SO NOT TOO GET THE CLICK,CLICK SOUND.
THE TRACK IS WIRED FOR BRAKES,PAINTED BORDERS,
ADDED REALISTIC WALL,PAINLESS POWER TAPS,
AND LET THERE BE LIGHT ALL FROM HOME RACING WORLD WEB PAGE,
GOT TO SAID THAT IT HAVE BEEN THERE FOR ALL THE
HELP THAT I NEEDED IN THIS PROJECT.STILL
HAVE STOCK ARTIN CONTROLLERS AND CARS.
BUT I NOW HAVE THE COOLEST TRACK ON THE BLOCK
THANKS ARTIN FOR THE GREAT TRACK FOR A LOW PRICE
SO EVERYONE CAN HAVE A TRACK AND NOT HAVE TO BE A MILLIONAIRE.
AND THANKS TO HOME RACING WORLD.
RICHARD WEAVER
HARTLAND WI
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Hi Frank
Here is my entry for the Artin Layout contest that you are having.

My name is Kevin Dickinson and I have been interested in slot cars since my first Eldon set in 1959. I got back into slots in 1998 with Scalextric. I just switched to Artin this past January with the purchase of the 4 lane set. I added another 4 lane last month. I have been impressed with the track system as it is easy to assemble and it comes with borders. I would have to say that it has about the same smoothness as others but with a little more grip. I can now do a 4 lane layout on my ping pong table. My current layout is one that I designed using Tracker 2000. It is 4 lanes and fits on my ping pong table. I did have to add about 3 inches to the width of the table to support the back edge of the track. I also elevated the middle section curves to make a slight bank which allows for a little more speed through the turns. I didn't have inside borders for the R1 half curve so I made my own by cutting the full border to fit. I did make a power base out of a printer A/B switch and 2 Carrera power bases. I added a directional switch for each lane as well. I wired this to the Artin 4 lane power base without modifying it other than soldering 8 wires to connect the lanes. These can be removed and the base will be back to its original form. The track is powered by a Samplex 12v 7amp power supply and is wired for brakes. I am also able to race my 1/24 scale cars on this layout which makes for some interesting if not tight racing. You can trade some paint if you like. This track system is worth more than you have to spend for it, making it easier to add more track or accessories and stay within budget. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in this hobby. And a big THANK YOU to for all that you do to promote the hobby and the Artin system. If it wasn't for the photo of the 1/24 cars that you posted on your web site, I would be probably still be using my other track instead of buying the Artin. I talked to Harry after I saw that picture and he gave me his insight on Artin and I decided to buy it and I am very happy with it. I am waiting for the reviews of the banked curves when they come out to see if I will put some in my next layout.
Thank You
Kevin Dickinson
Schenectady, NY
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Hi Frank, here are the PICs of my Layout. This all started with a 4 lane Artin starter set from Santa Claus, {Slotcarworld}. My 8 year old son Austin loves to race, so I decided to take my work shop that is 17' 8" long by 8' wide and make it into a 4 lane all out race room with the help of Slotcarworld for the input for a layout of this size. It came out great. This is all Artin track, it is powered by Pyramid 25amp 15volt Power Supply model PS-26KX, Parma controllers. The track is built on 3/4 plywood with 2x4 framing. The table is covered with indoor -outdoor grass carpet. The rock ledge is made from 2" thick foam with plaster cloth overlay then painted with 7 different color paints. Thanks to Slotcarworld we have a fun place to race with family and friends for years to come.
Thanks
Glenn Debeljak
Mentor, Ohio
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Hello Artin drivers across the sea...
here is my entry for the Artin track contest:
On a wooden construct 10,827 x 7,218 ft I just placed some grass carpet with the track, leaving out any decoration yet. I just finished the track before leaving for holiday :) The track is 77,,723 ft (lane1) x 76,214ft (lane2). On each small side and on the long side in front you have both lane connections, so you don´t have to change position while changing lanes. The complete race circuit is able to be lifted to the ceiling in order to keep the wife in a smooth mood:)) First I used some kind of handle to pull the complete construct up. But it didn´t work properly so i changed into installing weights on the other end of the ropes. That´s much better, although not really convenient.
I sanded the yellow banks and sprayed them black. Looks really different in complete black. Although painting the original fences in silver it was no good. The paint didn´t stay on the material. So i took some kind of clear flexible plexifoil and cut some fences.
They may be decorated in the future with race typical ads. I´m still looking for ideas.
The power comes from an real old school generator and has 20V/12A. That seems to be sufficient. I created some kind of a connection box in which all conections can be plugged. Main Power, diferent lane supplies, and brakes.
I use the original, slightly modified, artin lap timer with the old version of slotman 608 http://www.slotcarmanager.de/. In the german slotcarforum they discussed the possibilities of using this low cost method by wiring the artin laptimer with the pc. It works great and costs nothing. Having installed the track in the living room gives me the chance to connect it with the music surround system to support some breathtaking sounds, extracted from different race games, starting sounds, fastest laps and so on.
If not building and driving at home I get my kicks on the club circuit nearby.
http://slotmok.piranho.com/wermelskirchen/page_01.htm
Here are some different series running, for example DTM, Indy, GT.
That´s sure different then at home, not only because of the mising (They are not really missing, but useful at home) magnets.
If you like some more impressions, have a closer look at my little space in the web:
http://slotmok.piranho.com/index.htm
greetings to all contest participants
slotmok
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Pastime International Raceway description

My name is Steve Berry and I live in Colorado (USA).

Before I purchased my Artin track, I tried both Carrera and Scalextric Sport. While both are great systems, I liked the hard plastic of the Artin track, the reduced magnetic downforce, the Artin borders, and the size advantages Artin had over Carrera (which is fantastic track in its own right, just too big for me). After seeing the great scenery work of slot car fanatics like Jason Boye, Yves Lambert, Luf Linkert, and my good friend Dave Reinecke (Palmer Divide Raceway), I was convinced I wanted to scenic my layout. After a couple of failed experiments with Carrera and Sport layouts, I felt I had learned enough lessons about model raceway scenery to really commit myself to building a layout I could be proud of.

Pastime International Raceway (PIR) was born in concept in late October 2003. The 6' X 17.5' layout has taken me over 7 months to get to the stage you see in the included pictures and I still have much more I want to do including a victory circle, winner's podium and press box. The 2-lane layout is approximately 67 feet in lap length and is all Artin 1/32 track (aside from the pit lane). In designing the layout, I decided to omit an overpass and keep things relatively simple, but still challenging and interesting. The layout uses all three of Artin's curves. PIR does have some minor elevation changes with the largest elevation rising about 3 1/2 - 4 inches -- certainly nothing like Dave's Palmer Divide Raceway (which elevates to about 8 inches or so), but enough to keep things somewhat realistic looking. Elevation changes were done using the cookie cutter method and custom risers I built out of 1X3s and 1X4s. The table construction is nothing fancy or hurricane worthy ;-), but holds up to our family's use.

Timing on PIR is handled by TrakMate, a great and affordable timing system by Daniel Groux that I've used for over four years now on both HO and now 1/32 layouts. The timing gantry/pedestrian bridge was scratchbuilt by me. While far from a work of art, it serves its purpose well and doesn't look too out-of-place on my layout. I wanted something that blended in with the track and I think I accomplished my goal considering my limited skills.

Power is supplied by a TrakMate variable power supply. Three power taps are spread around the layout and seem to distribute power well. Controller hookups were built using Greg Braun's 2-lane, fused wiring kit.

Trees, turf, bushes and rocks were all done using Woodland Scenics line of scenery products. About 85% of the trees on the layout were done by me using Woodland Scenics' tree armatures and their green poly fiber material. The terrain was "built" using a product called Sculptamold. The turf took some experimenting and I messed up several times before I got it to look exactly like I wanted it to. For the rocks, I came up with my own mix of colors and washes to produce the results you see in the pictures. For me, the rock outcroppings are the highlight of the layout. I'm very happy with the way they came out.

The "rumble strips" and aprons were all done using Artin's borders -- which are AWESOME! All they needed was a little paint. The white pinstriping along the edges of the track was done using a 1/8" wide tape made by a company called Great Planes. It worked wonderfully and doesn't come up even when wiping down the track with water. The track itself was painted using a diluted grey acrylic "wash." Before I applied the paint, I blacked out the white stripes that are found on stock Artin track. The paint did not change the handling characteristics of the track.

The Artin grandstands were custom painted by me. The pit road buildings are custom-painted Scalextric plastic "Pit Stop" structures. The guardrails are made by Ninco, because Artin's silver colored guardrails were not out at the time.

Well, that's about it. Sure, it's far from perfect, but I'm SO happy with my Artin layout. Sometimes, after a hard day at work, I just like going downstairs to glance at PIR and feel proud of what I've accomplished. And, my kids love it too!

Thanks again to my entire family, including my wife for having TONS of patience while "Daddy worked on his track," and my good pal Dave Reinecke for being such an inspiration.

Steve Berry
Pastime International Raceway
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HI, this is my Artin layout. Approx. 170' per lane, 12' x 36', four lane. A work in progress, still trying to decide if I what to add "turf" to the dirt colored layer. Thanks,
Stephen Thomas
Alto, Mi
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Hi Frank, here are the pictures of my Artin layout. This all started when my brother and I went to the Kentucky Speedway and they had a slot car demo. I knew then I needed to build a track. After doing some research on tracks I decided on Artin because of its quality but mostly its price. I started with the 4 lane set on one ping-pong table. Then I decided I needed more track so I got another 4 lane set without cars and another ping-pong table. There was still a lot of table space left, so I decided to get even more pieces of track. Finally, I stopped buying track when I had use most of the table with this track that has fours lanes 63.58 feet in each. I have reworked the Atrin power terminals to only supply power to one lane each. There are 4 driver stations around the track, each with a track call button and a Professor Motor "Silver Series" Controller. The Artin Power supply has been replaced with a SAMLEX RPS 1207 Power Supply. I keep track of lap time with an old computer and TrakMate software.After the track was completed I decided I needed some pits, so I built the pit build out of thick poster board. Then I decided I need a crowd, so off to ebay to buy some homies. Then once I had a crowd, I needed some vending machines and porta-pots, which I found on a web site in Germany. After all this I still needed to add fencing around a couple of curves because the cars kept sailing off and onto the concrete floor. I used the Artin flag poles as supports for plastic gutter guard which I got from Lowes to create the retaining fences.

Thanks
Bryan
Franklin, Ohio
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Hers's some pictures aroung my track. All the trees were made by hand twisting wire and pieces of rope, with some clay added for the trunks. The grandstand was repainted and hommies added along with painting the Artinn figures. This is a project of me and my three girls started from one figure 8 raceset from you guys at Christmass. The stacks of tires for cussions I turned on the wood lathe, along with the umbrella stands in the concession areas.
The drivers stations will have both brakes pods and throttle controll for young drivers. BIkers like car racing also,I downloaded alot of buidings and the coke machines from the internet.
During the photo shoot we had an unexspected guest,,,a real snake in the grass (grandstand) !!! One of the overpass and far corner. The track is suspended from the ceiling and is raised by a small hand-crank winch that I hooked up a hand drill to to speed things up. I dyed carpet green for the track to sit on.
When I asked my 8 yr old what to do for pit buildings this is what she came up with, I'm very proud of them, she is a great help to our track, The retainig fences were welded up from clothes hangers and gutter wire, the walls are painted tie-down straps with glued on paper logo's. Lots of equipment to look at too.
This is the track hanging in the front room. I'd like to say thankyou to my wife for letting us do this in here. Becky, Brittany, AMber and Mona are all the team members that worked so hard for this. We run filtered, regulated power from Radio Shack with two Parma controllers and two stock Artin controllers. The half tires in the corners were turned on the lathe and then cut in half, The guardrails were painted silver along with the aprons painted black. I have added lights to my Ford Capri and done alot of work to the Fly's to make them as fast as possible We want more Parma's and to get the brakespods and other controls done along with more scenery and of course more cars!!!! Hope the photo's are alright, I'm a better track builder than a photgrapher. We want to thanks Frank and CIndy and SCW for the sharing the fun of slot cars and for putting on this contest. I have a few other pictures in your archieves under "Mike Wurth track pictures" if you want too, or can add them to these. Thanks very much,,,,, sincerly Mike Wurth and family.
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Hi, Please consider this entry for your contest.

Jim Trudeau
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Hello,
Here is my entry for the Artin 2004 Track Layout
contest. The table measures 13.5' x 7'. I designed
the track layout using Tracker2000 software. When
designing the track I wanted to use all of the
available Artin track pieces - R1, R2 and R3 curves
and full and half straights. The track layout
features an increasing-decreasing curve and an
decreasing-increasing curve. Each Artin 4 lane
terminal track has been converted to four driver
stations for each lane. The custom driver stations
feature banana plugs and are wired for brakes. Power
is supplied by Samlex 13.8v power supplies. Trakmate
is used to handle the timing and scoring duties. The
light bridge was made out of foam-core board and was
mounted to Artin track borders on each side. I
replaced all the Artin yellow guard rails with the
Artin silver guard rails. The logos on the guard
rails are from Slotcarplace. I painted the stock
Artin flag poles silver and used them as supports for
the bug screen material to simulate fences. All the
white track stripes were painted black using a Testors
flat black paint marker. I painted all the Artin
borders using Tamiya Park Green spray paint. The
stock Artin grandstands were modified and painted to
simulate modern grandstands. Trees are all made by
LifeLike. The best part of adding realism to your
layout is looking at and racing on your layout when it
is done. Sometimes I just look at my layout and enjoy
the scenery.
Brian Swanson
Mason, OH
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