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Hi Terry and welcome to magracing :) I really like the twistiness of the track. It should make your races really challenging and exciting because the drivers will always have to worry about speed control. The lack of a long straight will probably also mean that the cars will not reach full speed. Th...

Since I started doing magracing I've been thinking about options for building a lap counter. I know that there are commercial solutions, but the $300 or so it would cost me to buy one of those is quite simply too expensive for me. Today I made a really big breakthrough with the assistance of a frien...

The picture below shows a really, really small track I built recently. The purpose of the track was to experiment with different ways of building tracks and making lane changes and so on. Small test track A few measurements for good measure: :) Board size: 0.8m x 1.2m (~ 32" x 48" ) Inner ...

Below is a close-up of a plastered track. As mentioned above and on the magracing website you should keep the track surface at the same height as the wires and as flat/level as possible.

The video below was filmed with a handheld phone so it's a bit shaky, but it should be possible to see the track in action. The feet belong to a coworker's son. I think he was about five years old and while he didn't really grasp the concept of the racing lines and the lane changes he quickly got th...

Thank you, Wes. The cars performed really well. The only real issue was that one of them must have had a few crashes too many so the cables from the controller board to the engine got twisted off. But that's nothing that can't be easily fixed once I figure out where I've hidden my soldering iron. Oh...

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Even though I've lost a lot of my painting skills they did seem to come out quite nicely.

The track is indeed modular. For logistic and practical reasons I could not use large sheets but settled on using 0.8m x 1.2m sheets.

This is the first (real) track I've built and all things considered it went fairly well. I need to do some more experiments with the lane changes to get them right, but I see that as part of the experience :) Blackpond 01 800w.png Blackpond 800x600.jpg Since this track was used for a competition at ...

Some of these went fairly well, a couple aren't that good. The orange and blue cars were hand painted with brushes rather than spray paints and that didn't turn out too well. Brush strokes/marks are fairly visible and the paint gets scratched really quick.

Hi everyone! After a few weeks, erm, months of making small experiments and getting the things I needed to build an actual track I figured it was about time to join this forum and post some info on what I'm working on and a few lessons learned. My main reason for taking up magracing as a hobby was t...