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Creative => Photography & Graphics => Topic started by: macgayver on May 10, 2007, 17:16:51

Title: racing
Post by: macgayver on May 10, 2007, 17:16:51

My son wanted to do this for a while
all credit for the setting and the pictures go to him

(http://www.macgayverplaymobil.be/00Mr.Cool/100_5035.jpg)

pitures of the race are here -----> The race  (http://www.macgayverplaymobil.be/00Mr.Cool/Racing.htm)

It are quite a lot  ;)

enjoy

Title: Re: racing
Post by: playmofire on June 23, 2007, 16:42:26

Missed this until today.  Nice idea and great photos.  A Formula Libre race, too;  you don't get those often nowadays.  Problems at the first corner - he who is too quick into the first corner often does not finish as they say.

And is that a custom tow truck on the first corner?

This is a theme I've sometimes thought of taking up myself as I used to be a keen fan of motor racing in the 1950s and 1960s.  It reminds me of the races I had with my Dinky and Crescent racing cars.  I'd lay a track out and grid positions would be decided by rolling each car in turn down a ramp.  Movement in the race was decided by rolling a dice and in turn for each car.  The car was then moved a set distance for each spot on the dice - 1 meant one length moved, a 2 two lengths and so on.  The streamlined Mercedes Benz was longer than any of the other cars, and so it always won - which was how it seemed to be in real life in 1954/55.

Thanks for the photo and the link, macg - very much appreciated!

Title: Re: racing
Post by: macgayver on June 24, 2007, 08:37:00

Thanks I'll bring the compliments to my son

The green truck is indeed a custom but not very suceeded :-\

I loved the comic books of Michel Vailliant mostly the first 20
dunno if they translated in English

http://www.michelvaillant.com/ (http://www.michelvaillant.com/)

Title: Re: racing
Post by: playmofire on June 24, 2007, 08:47:12

Thanks for the link.  I've never come across this character before.  I shall follow him up.