We have been getting a lot of emails asking when the 24” wide dNaNo and Mini Z track will be out. We finally ran the pre-production units last week, but we were unhappy with the appearance of the lane marking lines. We originally decided to use the same .1875” wide lane markers as used on our 16” wide track. With the 16” wide track the lines are a scale 8” wide in 1/43rd, , and a scale 5 ¼” wide in 1/28th. This has the right look when used on the 16” wide track which is a scale 57 feet wide. Unfortunately it just did not look right with the wide track. The reason is that the 24” wide track is now a scale 86 feet wide which is closer to a 1/20th scale track. So we scraped most of the fixtures and fabricated new ones that now give us .3125” wide lines. Splitting the difference between 1/43rd and 1/28th the new lane markers give us a scale 11” wide stripe at 1/35th scale. It is slightly oversize but is scale to the track width and most importantly, it has the right look. We will be running pre-production units tomorrow and get some pics up ASAP. We know .125” width in a stripe does not seem like much, but it does matter to us.
Thanks,
Miles
RealTracks RC Racing Systems
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