Camera Car for the Track

[Area 51 Raceway NC]

Watching all the videos Harry posts of the events I got to thinking about the slot car person view. So my mind started working and I had an old Go Pro camera sitting on the shelf. It still works and has not failed me yet. I had an old H&R chassis sitting about in pieces in a box. Ding!!! I put together a camera car and here are the results. I will be sending this to you Harry so you can keep it there and use it for the next event to get a different view of the cars on the track. It does drive decently on the plastic track I have but will have to see how it does on the wood. I hope you enjoy it and it works well.

[Area 51 Raceway NC]

[oldskool62]

awesome

[dinglebery]

Here's my version... a little top heavy but it works!

[War Eagle River]

[oldskool62]

That was fantastic. I would love to see more of that track

[War Eagle River]

Here you go!

https://youtu.be/owTeS-01trc

[oldskool62]

Unbelievable. That would have been a bunch of fun.

[Area 51 Raceway NC]

I like it!! Nice!!

[dw5555]

Holy crap Scott your track is huge. It was like a 40 sec drive around.

[War Eagle River]

That was an old Carrera set up about 5-6 years ago. Almost 200’ around, crazy. We race on a wood track now. Just a tad shorter😊

[Broman62]

SWEEEEEEETNESS ON ALL THE CAMERA CARS!!!!

[RichD]

Here is one in 1/32nd....



and another in HO.



I used inexpensive keychain cameras. You have to run the camera car as slow as possible or use editing software to slow things down. It helps a lot if you have a lot of light.

Here are a couple of videos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGa6lWlU73I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEy-_csW_eY

It is nice if you use a camera with a faster than normal framing rate and that have a wide angle lens.