Racing circuit pit boxes

[Lluis of Minairons]

As the icing on the cake of my projected 1/100 scale Grand Prix circuit, a set of "pit boxes" for my 1930s cars was a real must. At first I thought of making them entirely from scratch, because their general profile would have been easy to reproduce using styrene card. However, in the end I decided to design the thing on Tinkercad, using their library to complete a few details. Then a gaming mate printed six units on his Elegoo Mars 3D printer.



The standard team colours used in the Formula D are red, yellow, green, blue and white - most of which could be matched with the national liveries of historical racing teams. I also added a sixth one, which is black.



My current Minairons miniatures racer collection includes two Italian models (red), two German ones (white, later silver), one British car (green) and a French one (blue). I'm about to add a further American model (white and blue). Not all liveries do match with the pit boxes repertoire, however, so I've had to force some arrangements: for example, since all Italian teams wore red, I left as red the Alfa Romeo pit box, but then I had to assign the yellow one to Maserati. Similarly, as all German teams wore silver in Nazi times, I assigned the white pit box to Mercedes-Benz while the black one to Auto Union.



A particular feature of the white pit box is that I can use it for two different teams (Mercedes-Benz and Miller-Ford), just by replacing signboards and making the flags interchangeable. All signboards are magnetized, by the way.

Hope you like these!

[Colonel Kilgore]

Very nice, Lluis!

Simon

[Smiley Miley 66]

How big are the models please ?
I have a couple of Race Games I want to get the right size cars for ?
Miles

[martin goddard]

A romantic period of racing.
Sooty faces. Cork helmets and a scarf



martin

[Lluis of Minairons]

How big are the models please ?

All models in this collection are based on 4 x 2 cm stands.

Lluís

[Bankinista]

I detect a clue in Lluis's comment of "my projected 1/100 scale Grand Prix circuit".

Derek of Cambridge

[Smiley Miley 66]

Thank you Luis.
They are great models.
Miles