GAV00

Does anyone know what is the best material to build an RC Offroad Track in your backyard out of?
We were thinking of using a fine granite rock base or a topsoil, or another type of gravel.
We want to know what will be the best for keeping the dust levels down, (to not annoy the neighbours), something that will compact down and hold its shape with out being to hard wearring on our tyres, something able to be used as a permanent outdoors uncovered track without washing away in the rain(not that it rains much). The cars we will be running are 4x4 10th scale electric trophy trucks.
Does anybody know what material they use on the indoor "dirt" tracks? As they seem to have low levels of dust kicked up.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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FahrtAutoRC

Clay, then tamp it when you are done building, and lightly hose it before use.

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What cerealkilla said

GAV00

thanks for that

how do you shape it

do you start with the track and jumps then cover it in clay
or do you find clay soil and make the hole thing out of it ?

FahrtAutoRC

What we do here for our indoor and outdoor track is bring the clay in and make the whole track out of it, then we shovel and rake it all into shape, then rent a walk-behind gas-powered tamper and water it a lil bit then tamp it, and if the tamper starts stickin too much throw a fine layer of dust on it like flour on a baking pan, but it does come out real nice. The tamping and forming take a lot of pratice to perfect but as you can see the results are well worth it! Here is our latest layout, its already a month old so we will be rollin out a new one in a couple more weeks. Lol Just noticed I can see myself in th window on the last pic, standin there scratchin my baldhead haha

SyCo_VeNoM

looks like a nice track
Used to be and indoor one by me that was set up similar that(20 mins away) I saw pics of. They were forced to shut down a week before I found out about it(from what I read it was something about the suburb they were in demanded they be zoned, and insured as an amusement park...) [:@]
Now the closest indoor offroad track I know of is like 1.5-2 hours away...

GAV00

Thanks for the info

now all i have to do is find clay</p>

FahrtAutoRC

Should be able to find it thru the same places you would get your gravel or any other surface, and if not, they should be able to tell you where to get it!