2006 Artin 1:43 contest

Artin 1:43 Contest

Artin North America is very pleased to announce a new contest for 2006. Artin now has a long-standing tradition of organizing such contests and results and pictures of the last Artin contest can be found here.

More details on the contest and answers to any questions will be found on the Home Racing World Artin 1:43 forum; look under the "2006 Artin Contest" topic.

Rules

We don't want to write a book on rules, so let's just keep it simple and everyone can have fun!!!

The best overall modeling effort will win!!!

You need to start from an Artin 1:43 body and it needs to be mounted on an Artin 1:43 chassis.

From there on, anything goes: repainting or detailing the bodies, modeling after real cars and/or fantasy cars, bodies can be sanded and modified to create a different brand car, detailing is highly recommended like putting drivers in, clear windows, mesh in driver door, bigger rear spoilers, painting, decals, etc ‚ wheels can be changed if needed, just start from the original Artin 1:43 body and chassis and let your skills do the rest.

The contest starts now and results will be announced on 4/30/2006. Pictures of the cars MUST be received by 5:00 pm Pacific Standard Time on 4/28/06. You can submit your entry by clicking the following link: e-mail your pictures and description, along with your name, e-mail address, city, state, country, and a few lines explaining what the car is and how it was modified from the original Artin car.

To be judged, 4 JPEG pictures of 800x600 pixels resolution MUST be sent: 1 front view of the car, 1 rear view of the car, a 3/4 view of the car (where the side and top of the car are both visible as in this example), and one bottom view of the car showing the chassis. Once submitted, your pictures will be posted on this web site.

A panel of 6 judges will judge the car based on their overall appearance, originality of the car being modeled, accuracy, paint and/or decals, etc ... Each judge will grade each car on a scale of 100 points, i.e. 600 is a perfect score.

Only one car can be entered per person, anyone in the world except Artin dealers and contest judges can participate.

Prizes

All prizes donated by Artin North America, prizes will be awarded to the top ten cars in the following order:

4-lane Power Passer Brickyard 400 set

4-lane Standard Brickyard 400 set

2-Lane Power Passer Brickyard 400 set

2-Lane Standard Brickyard 400 set

2-Lane Power Passer Indy set

2-Lane Standard Indy set

4 Power Passer NASCAR Dodge and Ford

2 Power Passer NASCAR Dodge and Ford

2 2006 Standard NASCAR Dodges

2 Power Passer Indy Cars

Judges

Brian Schindler author of "A 1:24-hour Hobby" from Magazine

Jim Cunningham from

Mark from Derby City Speedway

Roland Rohrle from

Sean from

Philippe Marchand from

Where to find Artin 1:43 cars and parts

The US distributor for Artin is http://www.slotcarworld.com and carries the entire Artin line

There are more and more dealers for Artin, the following links will help you find one near you:

Locate a dealer near you in the US: Artin US dealers

Locate a dealer near you in the rest of the world: Artin World dealers

If you need technical tips in this scale: Philippe’s 1:43 page and HomeRacingWorld Forum

Results

Entries

1. Zippo from BW-Slot in Germany

Artin Mercedes 300 SL

Magnet, rims and tires are from a Carrera GO!!! Porsche. Guide pin is also a Carrera GO!!!, but shortened. The decals are self-made.

2. Go!!!Mano from BW-Slot in Germany

Pickup Truck "Venus"

Original: Artin Race Truck

Body:

Sanded and repainted outside in copper and gold, inside black (light-tight).

Put decals on

Paint three times with clear lacquer

Front light and fog headlight with led´s

Back and stop light with red led´s

Exhaust flames with yellow led´s

All lights using a permanent light kit

Chassis:

Cut the front off, drill a hole for a Ninco guide flag

Paint the wheels gold

Sand the front tires smaller

3. Jimmy43 from Canada

Take a so-called tuner car and make it into a North American Dirt and Asphalt Racer.

Original: Artin Desperado Body

Body

Like the song says, “She ain’t pretty”

Cut, dremelled, slammed to fit old school, none of that boom boom stereo, soup

Can exhaust stuff

Silly wing removed

Knocked out the glass, too dangerous, replaced with wire mesh

Painted purple and yellow (the kids’ favorite colors)

Stock Artin sticker decals, trimmed to fit (got to keep something the Artin people will recognize)

Fuel cell fabricated from the seat of another plastic toy car

Front bumper is styrene tubing

Nerfbars are plastic coated paperclips attached to body through holes and glued in place

Chassis

Used a stock J2 Artin Chassis

Glued and trued tires fronts are 14 mm, rears are 16 mm

Headers glued to chassis (taken from a donor dollarstore car)

Chassis CA’ed to body along side panels and at front and rear to fuel cell

4. Cjent from Indiana

“Audi A4 DTM”

Original: Artin A4 Body

5. Liberty FLHTC from Iowa

“The Finger”

Original

Red/White Artin Corvette

Artin J2 Chassis

Modifications

Cut front end and installed inserts to narrow

Installed front slope panel

Cut rear window off and filled the remaining opening

Gutted the inside of the body of excess plastic

Stretched the frame to fit (about 7/16")

Installed a Goldmine motor and added extra traction magnet

Chassis is post mount in the rear and side mount in the front

Kandy paint is from House of Kolors

Paint starts as red, fades to purple then fades to blue

The ghost decal is "hand" made and painted

6. Jim from Ohio

“Dale Sr.”

This car started life as a #4791FF Stock Car. It has been converted to a 2006 Dale Earnhardt Sr. G.M. Goodwrench Monte Carlo SS.

I filled the original headlights, roof flaps, and gas filler, along with removing the air foil from the roof. It was repainted Classic Black, then decaled with Slixx Decals with my own home printed head and tail lights for the 2006 update, then clear coated with 3 coats of clear enamel. I also added nascar style wheels and Goodyear Eagle tires, along with all the wheel and tire markings. I also added an interior with roll bars, jack screws, driver and seat back, and window net. The car also features clear windows with markings. The car is completely race ready and runs great.

7. GK from Canada (a.k.a Pontiac455Judge)

“Porsche 911”

Aluminum exhaust

Custom cut glass (plastic)

Custom roll bars

Custom designed graphics, printed with testers paper.

8. Hoosier Hustler from Indiana

“NASCAR Limo”

2 BODIES cut in half and epoxied back as one

Skinny tires all the way around, Chassis stretched, Green end bell motor

Results = runs pretty good on the straights, not so good in the curves!!!!

9. Josh from North Carolina

“KITT”

KITT started as a red Pontiac Firebird

T Tops cut out, front end removed and cut out made for scanner, back end was removed.

Car was sanded and painted Canyon Black.

Front and rear glass (plastic) installed.

Custom wrap around dash shaped from textured plastic installed - detailed/decaled.

Interior was fitted - detailed/painted driver with seat-back put in.

Knight Foundation emblem on rear deck.

Custom front end shaped from same plastic as dash - scanner decal glued in.

Custom rear end - tail pipes from a tuner car, flat back made from same plastic as rear glass.

The rear corners (next to tail pipes) hand shaped and, of course, a vanity plate decal.

Tail pipes and mirrors painted Argent Silver, all decals self-made

New G2 chassis with a zipzap motor for space requirements

Wheel covers glued in place to match the original Kitt

I had a lot of fun and frustration. Fat fingers, little parts !!!

10. Micyou03 from Connecticut

“USA 01 CorVette”

USA 01 Corvette started as an Artin T-Top Corvette that sat way too high

A lower profile robot motor from Electronic Goldmine was installed into the Artin chassis so the body can be cut and ground to sit more like a real Corvette. The body was then cut and ground as previously stated. Also the top and side glass was cut out so the hand painted resin driver can be added. The USA 01 and USA decals were designed and made by myself and the scallops on the sides are from Radical Decals.