About me

Welcome to my website. My name is Ernesto Rueda and I am fond of the slot racing in the broad sense, competition, collecting and scratchbuilding. As time has passed I have been leaving aside the facet of the competition, in part due to time and partly because I did´n like the ultra-competitive environment that existed in some clubs. So I focused more on the part of collectors and especially the scratchbuilding, which are the two points to which I dedicate this web page.

Over a long time I've been doing with a small collection of slot cars home manufactured, what in the circle is called "scratchbuilding" or "scratch", where I spent a good amount of hours, but you know that doing something you enjoy is never a chore, so I spent time for good. As some of you, I owe much of my knowledge to a forum called "Docslot" that sadly disappeared but other forums have got the witness such as Los Petiflauticos and a Pasionslot time now. Some of the techniques, many ideas and above all the courage I have drawn many of my forum partners, which their works made me caught the scratchbuilding bug and above all not to leave the work half done, as unfortunately happens to many good works. However, other techniques and ideas have been grown, problems sometimes arise in which the mind must be put to work to solve them and occasionally the solutions are good, others less so. Regardless of whether they own or copied ideas you have to work for yourself, and that´s where is the value of the models.

This is the fifth version of the web page I post, the third after changing to the domain erneslot.es, after the good reception of the previous version. I improved the structure and layout of the page, trying to make it clearer, better structured and easier to maintain, in addition to better programmed to display virtually the same regardless of browser. I also added a new section, slot car mechanincs, with the intention of showing some basic adjustments to our cars to move more freely onm the track than they usually do right out of the box, so you can enjoy more them. Also considered was a section necesary in a site about slot cars because slot cars are are not static scale models, but have mechanical parts, sometimes simple and sometimes not.

I also had tried to improve the english translation of the page because at some parts was very bad. I think those parts with wrong translations can be understood better but if you find a translation mistake please let me know sendind me a e-mail at this address.

The page is tested with Firefox 3.0.x browsers, Internet Explorer 7-8, Google Chrome, and works correctly in all cases but in some of there must be allowed the execution of "ActiveX" controls (for the script included in the page) to be displayed correctly the large images.

I hope you like the changes in the web page and having such a good reception as the previous versions, which honestly I was pleasantly surprised, so I take the opportunity to give you thanks for your visits and the emails you sent me.