A nice problem comming up.

[Nightwing]

Been thinking on this for 24 hours and getting lost in the details and the ramifications of this simple though for "track" for Tomy's new Busses and off Road Trucks. Well a race track is snap compared to what it going to take to build a "fun" area for these beast!

For the busses a nice little city to putter around in would be greate. Nothing major. A few shop, bus station, homes but at the minium a road that looks like a road with sidwalks. They included two bus stops. { Basicaly a post with routmaps on them. }

But for the "Trucks" will require a mountain range simular to the one the German's cooked up for their off road HO truck tracks. It may be easer for the trucks for a "track" since any train material for hills should work. They even have premade "train tables" just add a bit of green and brown and go.

The problem is that we have HO or O guage to pull from. Not sure if slot cars { 1/64 } scale which is close to a bit even have blds for them.

Have found some "road" material in HO scale. Different types. Baicaly a tape around 100x8mm. Also scale road signs etc.

I hope Tomy will pop out with a "town"!

[john]

For off road terrains, I'd experiment with "Stuff." You know, that yellowish foam that comes in a spray can? It's used for insulation a lot. I bet that could make some neat off road terrain. As for a city, I'd check HO scale. HO is 1/64 scale, so it would be pretty close. Hobby stores that carry trains would have buildings and things, or so I would think.

[Nightwing]

Hum... Never though of the expanding yellow foam stuff! Good idea! Be a quick fast way and with correct brown/green/gray formula paint could built a course as soon as its all drys!

Saw at a site that sell train stuff blds, signpoast, roadways etc from Germany that pritty good detail and farely reasonable price. About 12 to 20 for a bld. The thing that caught my eye was the prefab mountanous train layouts some painted and ready to go. Expensive but pritty rugged. On the "Tomy Bus" in the Bit gallery posted a picture with an old Roadside Inn HO bld I still had and parked a MicroQ and the Tomy bus outside. Look decent.

I dout if this hobby going to die any time soon!!! Just too many possiblities and options for it. Even the clones are selling out around here!

Again I love the idea of the foam!