Sizes And Prices Of Toys--Continued
Hey.
My obsessions take me a variety of places. As said, I'm more of a wanna-be gamer than an actual one. And more of an idea guy than an implementer.
Because of the slowness and bugginess of dialup, sometimes I'll use the computers at the Public Library if I need higher speed connectivity. Madden NFL Superstars on Facebook is a current obsession, and so I did half an hour of that at the Library today. 30 Minutes is a standard block of user time there...if they're busy it is all the staff will allow.
After that, I went to a Dollar store to try out an idea related to the Carrera slot cars I'd been thinking about getting into. They have cheap toy cars roughly the same scale as the slot car hardware, so after I took measurements of a Carrera car (at the Knoxville IPMS meet site Tuesday) I compared my measurement notes and a ruler to the specimen cars on the shelves. I soon found out that while they were close, I'd still have to somehow "stretch" the toy car's body in both length and width to get it to fit over the Carrera hardware, and the result would look somewhat like this:
Not that it isn't far from my original idea, but not exactly what I'm going for either. I have more rumination to do.
My obsessions take me a variety of places. As said, I'm more of a wanna-be gamer than an actual one. And more of an idea guy than an implementer.
Because of the slowness and bugginess of dialup, sometimes I'll use the computers at the Public Library if I need higher speed connectivity. Madden NFL Superstars on Facebook is a current obsession, and so I did half an hour of that at the Library today. 30 Minutes is a standard block of user time there...if they're busy it is all the staff will allow.
After that, I went to a Dollar store to try out an idea related to the Carrera slot cars I'd been thinking about getting into. They have cheap toy cars roughly the same scale as the slot car hardware, so after I took measurements of a Carrera car (at the Knoxville IPMS meet site Tuesday) I compared my measurement notes and a ruler to the specimen cars on the shelves. I soon found out that while they were close, I'd still have to somehow "stretch" the toy car's body in both length and width to get it to fit over the Carrera hardware, and the result would look somewhat like this:
Not that it isn't far from my original idea, but not exactly what I'm going for either. I have more rumination to do.