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Post by Chris Wright on Sept 28, 2013 16:41:52 GMT -5
I've set this thread up so that Andi Rowland can can add news and comments as his new venture progresses. Here's a picture of his prototype Lotus
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Post by Andrew Rowland on Sept 29, 2013 1:20:13 GMT -5
Thanks Chris So this new venture, designed by me and engineered by slot.it will be produced by the historic Policar brand now a sister company of slot.it.
It was officialy released yesterday at Slotlandia in Milan to applause from all the other Italian producers who were present.
The concept is to finally have a to-scale F1 car that also performs very well on the track. This is done by the redesign of the rear transmission.
I will post further as things develop. The idea is that release will be in around a year (too long I know), and price will be 'normal' slot.it.
Of course the design of the pieces also has an eye for the scratchbuilder. I hope to demonstrate this winter how the motor pod, engine etc. Can be used to make beautiful scratchbuilds when coupled to brass chassis and resin bodies!!
I'd like to thank a few people for indirectly or directly helping me over the years and without whom this would not have happened; Graham Lane, Chris Wright, Graham Poulton, Mark Huber, Walter Merulli and Maurizio Ferrari and anyone else who has given me positive feedback....
Cheers for now Andi
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Post by Andrew Rowland on Sept 29, 2013 1:28:48 GMT -5
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Post by abbo on Sept 29, 2013 4:26:46 GMT -5
No wonder, when, a few weeks ago, I pestered Maurizio about Slot.it making some F1 cars, he said "If I tell you, then I will have to kill you!"
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Post by David Mitcham on Sept 29, 2013 11:00:25 GMT -5
At last a model of the first and best version of the 72 with my all-time F1 hero driving it! The engineering looks excellent. Can't wait for it to become available. Splendid!
David
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Post by EM on Sept 29, 2013 11:52:13 GMT -5
I like the solution to the "How can I hide this gear?" problem.
EM
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Post by Andre Acker on Sept 29, 2013 14:47:00 GMT -5
Hi Andi,
Congratulations ! These are great news ! I think we can expect to have light wheels, high quality tires and a fine slim motor, as per other Slot-it cars. This will help enormously the scratchbuilders ! And it will be marvelous to have these 70's f1s as ready-to-run (Lotus, Tyrrell, Brabham, Mclaren, Ferrari etc).
Thank you Andy, thank you Maurizio !
André Acker.
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Post by Andre Acker on Sept 29, 2013 14:49:36 GMT -5
Also nice to see a thin Bruno Giacommelli (known as "Panda" at his f1 days).
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Post by nuvolari on Sept 29, 2013 22:04:47 GMT -5
Nice to see your work & dream coming true Andi.
Congratulations, and I hope that the result will be as much appreciated by the general public, as all the slot freaks do here on this forum.
I hope that slot.it. didn't leave out the front suspension by changing the basics of the chassis. That would be a pity to the design and looks. On the other hand it gives us something to scratch build, otherwise it would be to perfect. ;D
And I think I might say, that we all hope to see more of these superb projects appear in the future.
Keep up the good work.
Cheers, Danny
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Post by f143 on Sept 30, 2013 7:36:15 GMT -5
Brilliant concept and execution, look forward to seeing it in production. Regards Nigel
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2014 12:58:10 GMT -5
Whilst it's an obvious solution to getting a smaller gear, it's great to see you get it into production, Andi. I know I'm not a Slot.it fan, but having now met Maurizio, I have to say he's an absolute gentleman. It will be interesting to see how many F1 bodies this pod will fit.
Cheers, Martin
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Post by Andrew Rowland on Jan 11, 2014 7:07:02 GMT -5
Hi Martin, just saw your post!
Yes Maurizio is absolutely the right person to take and trust my concept to. The first one I built by hand for the Tecno but of course never showed it to anyone. Maurizio understood immediately i showed him on his kitchen table that here was something that could work.
As well as a great guy he is a first class engineer and he took my concept and has made a very beautiful production solution.
It is currently designed to fit any car with a heland HG400 series box which probably means we have about 300 cars to do..... To make other boxes we will ahve to change the motor pod tooling which will obviously be some cost! That will probably be necessary to make some Ferraris in due course....
We could also go backwards and do late '60's cars or people can buy the kit and do their own conversions!!
Cheers Andi
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Post by Andrew Rowland on Sept 4, 2014 15:10:36 GMT -5
Thought I should show the point we've arrived at here: This would be Graham Hill in the Bob Walker car. The first release is likely to be Rindt in the same car but with the right hand side mirror different to represent Hockenheim 1970. This would be Fittipaldi in 1972, one of the early races before the tyres were slick. I can't remember right now which race but it'll come to me..... These are injection moulded parts having been assembled by the Policar employees. Pre production parts for final tuning. There is also a video showing the car running at: youtu.be/MHrxCgrNOxQGoes pretty well I think?
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Post by Chris Wright on Sept 4, 2014 15:28:00 GMT -5
For no magnet on a Ninco track....that's impressive, this will put the cat amongst the pigeons so to speak.
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Post by Andrew Rowland on Sept 4, 2014 15:46:16 GMT -5
Hope so Chris, hope so! I love cats.....
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