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I've built a track in the garden so might be able to help with a few things, not sure what you need to know though? One thing i can advise - if at all possible, get hold of a tractor or rent one of them little diggers for a weekend... Other things i've found are useful are consider drainage (build up if possible) and get yourself a weedkiller backpack.

Yeah i made one out of styrene and plasticard - worked great. I think i used 4.5mm rod, but wondered if 5mm would look maybe more to scale. I wouldn't go lower than 4.5 anyways. This is for a 1:10 btw.

If you're lucky enough to have a local used tool shop anything like the one we have, you'll find something suitable there. My boss got ours for £35 almost new, and it's lasted a few years of farm abuse with only a replacement belt.

Anyways... Another one for the model, rather than to the model... Did a bit of dressing up of a new rally section. Those red/white stripey barriers will hopefully be replaced by some fake armco once the materials arrive... They're more of a temporary stage marker type affair.

Trail marker tape for example (or any thin-ish bright tape) made for nice little temporary barriers that might look good in a scale crawler track and was super simple - tie it around a few sticks and push 'em in the ground. Some examples:

If your garden is anything like mine, invest in some weedkiller and a backpack sprayer! My track is more rally style so probably not many tips for crawlers and tanks.. I guess the thing that made the biggest visual difference was a bunch of little scale-ish fences, road signs, log piles, and stuff like that. Most of which have been smashed to bits now:D

There's a possibility that this stuff, which is cheap as chips, might make some nice barriers... http://www.screwfix.com/p/tower-galvanised-steel-channel-37mm-x-2m/67610 Lay it flat like the floor is wearing a hat and carefully bash in the middle, and it might end up looking something like a scale version of this stuff: ...If you squint, from a distance, maybe.

Monkey hammer (nice beefy piece of wood) is more my style:D

Tent pegs in general seem pretty dam handy dandy. -My next plan is to use some old hose pipe i have laying about, with a tent peg pointed through it every few inches, tight fit so it stays high on the peg. Hopefully should look like a nice little guard rail type jobbie. That and the rest of my barriers and I should be all edged up, trackwise. Ultimate would be fake armco but I can't seem to find any flexible plastic / metal with the right profile. Anyone know what such a profile would be called? Doesn't have to be exact of course.

Update for anyone interested in this stuff... Bought 50 of these things for £16 http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/291654257354?_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649&var=590688243181&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT They look like crap on the back side of 'em, but will be great for anywhere the back can't be seen. 10 of 'em to a pack, one pack is 2.4m so not bad value, should look ok, and take a few hits with the rally car. 12m in total in the pack and just bang into the ground, and clip together to form a continuous wall. Other barriers I've been making today (off work with a goosed back) are as follows: red/white hazard tape across end of twin walled plastic sheet (like this https://www.roofingsuperstore.co.uk/product/corotherm-4mm-clear-twinwall-polycarbonate-roof-sheet-1220mm-x-610mm-x-4mm.html?gclid=CIKruemXt84CFSgz0wodzAAJVw) opposite to the direction of the box sections, cut along tape, put a few tent pegs down through the box sections... Nice movable barrier that can be bent around corners.

Well I got a bunch of seeds ordered so that's a good start.

Would you believe, they're nearly all wrestlers and star trek types... I suppose the market for rally fans with bobble hats and warm jackets is pretty tiny:D The best "normal" people are all model railway sized, why is it the train nerds get all the best scale scenery?

Spectators would be kinda cool.. I'll look into that ta. Ta for the tree info too there noj. I was at the garden centre near me earlier looking into stuff but didn't really have a clue what I was looking at.

the plastic lawn edging i can find is a sort of corrugated looking stuff, think it'd look a little odd - i do rather like the miniature brick wall type stuff though, if a bit expensive for enough to do much with. Ta for the idea though, it's defo a step in the right direction. What it seems like i need is a massive long roll of flexible plastic, real cheap, and the moon on a stick. Looks like i might end up doing the pipe thing (still got a fair bit of it laying about) again, or making some little wooden fences (again out of stuff I have laying about) for straight bits.

Not a bad idea, i'll see what's about locally.

a quick check and it seems ideal, but looks like i'd be paying about £10 per outside corner radius... And i've got rather a lot of corners:(

Oooh that's an interesting idea... I'll look into it, thanks.

Finally got this thing in the 240z:

Lol i like that, if a little impractical:D We did have a jungle section for a while, until I blasted the nettles with weedkiller!

We generally run stage rally type stuff (there's only me and a mate with rc's and we're both rally types) but there's plenty of scope for that kind of stuff already as you can see from the current layout:

So i've got a nice enough track going in the garden now, sort of a scale rally circuit type jobbie with various little ins and outs and alternative layouts with a whole lode of different stages available... Lately I'm starting to think about making it look a bit nicer and whatnot. The main thing is barriers. I've already made a fair few with plastic and hose pipe, nailed onto loads of little uprights. This works well but is time consuming and a little bit fiddly. Can anyone think of anything cheap and easy and fairly scale looking to look into? Ideally there'd be some sort of flexible material a couple inches tall with pegs a few inches long sticking off it at right angles I could just wham into the ground for instant barrier, but, well, i can't imagine anything being that simple. Whatever they are, they've got to be able to take a car whacking them without falling to bits. Barrier warning / trail marker tape works nicely for temporary track adjustments and looks very nicely scale, but they're defo just a short term stage marker-outer type job. Any other ideas would be awesome too. Any little doodads and whatchamacallits that'd add a touch of 10th scale realism to the thing at minimum cost and faff. A friend made a few road signs for example, they're pretty nice, and I had a couple piles of small 'logs' stacked up which added to the forrest rally look. Any small shrubs I could plant that would look like scaled down trees for example? Just kinda chucking the thought out here really, in case anyone has any nifty simple ideas i'd never have thought of. Ta folks:)

Cool, ta.

Ah, good enough... So long as they're not a step down i'm plenty happy:)

Oh nice. turns out it's an upgrade then. Ta.

So long story short the output gear in the front diff (the one the pin pops into to provide drive to the cup) went on my XV-01 yesterday.... Having found the problem (and part number in the book, thanks tamiya san) i went on ebay to order parts. Weird thing is, the diff internals that came with the kit are all that odd white semi see through plastic, but the ones available in the uk (can't be arsed waiting for asian delivery right now) are all black plastic. Number same on both sets (51460). Is there any difference? I mean, it's no big deal or anything, if it turns out to be weak or whatever I can just order the original clear white ones from korea or wherever it was, I'm just curious.