Tamiya Mini Cooper, modified to Ministox.

Looks good Colin    The battery cables look about right cause you use thicker gauge wire in a race car. Seat belts, would have to see them on the seat as to how they looked for size. What are the buckles and adjusters from ??

Got some good detailing going on here. Just to my eye the plug wires look a little big in diameter. I really like the seat belt buckles, where did you get them?  

The plug cables look really big in the photos but not so bad by eye so I'll leave them this time, saying this I found some thinner wire I had stripped from a mini usb cable.... Typically "after" I fitted this lot in.

The seat belts are hand made, masking tape painted (in scale of 2 inch real belts), the adjusters are fuse wire bent to shape and the tape threaded through with a piece or wire through the loop to add a tension bar. The buckle ends are flattened solder wire cut to shape with a sharp scalpel and glued on.

Seat belts look pretty good. When I built I tried tiny pieces of cut up aluminum pop cans for buckles and all I got were a bunch of tiny cuts on my fingers!
I've seen fotos of the "hobby stox" racing done in the U.K. and they ARE wild. Thanx!

Here's a kids race from Kings Lynn,  one of the average speed venues..... Enjoy

The interior looks great Colin and the tank looks terrific.

I have to agree that the plug leads do look to large though.

You have mail coming.

Kool Racing, I watched a couple of the video's and that's what I call racing            

Thanks Colin, enjoyed it.

No problems John.

Forgot to mention the petrol tank is a square capacitor from a mixed bag of electronic components painted in Citadel "Bolton metal"

Here's where i am at the mo .....
Going to rip the HT leads out and replace them with better scaled wire (after the help and advice offered from our great leader, thank Al :))

 

That looks awesome !

 

Hi Colin,

WOW, this is looking great...

Andy...

thanks guys

well i pulled the thicker wire out and replaced it with some "more to scale" (thanks AL)
I had a go at replicating the plug/dizzy caps with some black sleeving from thicker wire, had to make a new dizzy too (its just some styrene tube)

What do you think?

Hi Colin,

They look so much better, although she going to sound a bit rough when you do get her running, your number 2 and 3 leads are the wrong way round...

Andy...

Dammit....... I'd got an image in front of me as well...... Stupid stupid stupid

I'll do it tomorrow..... There's prehistoric bones needing digging up tonight :-)

 

Nice detailing.
- as these are raced by kids, are you 'bending' a few panels,
or is this modelled on a race one, day one, car ?

  

It's a race one day one car Ron......

I'm going to pick a couple more of these up and do one mint condition, and I'll have a bash at the tin foil panel trick I've seen in the tutorials section on here and dent a few panels in.

EXCELLENT!!!!

Got the external frame tacked together.
Made from "scale" 2 3/4ins square, 2ins square and 2ins round

External safety cages ?
Back in the dim and distant past, it was a bit of scaffold pole for an internal roll cage for me.

The striped one I rebuilt over a winter, and first time out, after two circuits it was rammed into a post
and hit on multiple occasions by other cars. I pulled the wheels and carb off it it and left the remains for scrap !

Ive had my fair share of that Ron, and it brings back some (painful) memories.

Triumph 2000, scaffold poles through the wings/doors etc, block of concrete in the front and in the boot, town and country tyres for grip .....
Lutterworth was my banger racing track .... through the years i went from sitting and watching to driving and getting pulverised (car and body organs)

Nice work on the 'nerf work' Colin. Looks good.

well after fitting it all together, adding some final plumbing and wiring we have it finished

full images in finished build section
https://skidsplace.forumotion.com/t1637-mini-cooper-ministox#15769