How to Buy Slot Car Accessories

Slot car accessories differ from components in one way: they aren't about making the car run, but about making it look cool.

Things You'll Need

• Hobby Paintbrushes
• Hobby Paints
• Model Decals
• Slot Car Kit

Instructions

1. Decide on a budget for customizing your car - $20, $50, $100.

2. Take a look at your car.

3. Decide how you want to trick it out.

4. Consider the time period. If you want to keep the car in period shape, research body colors and wheel-spoke patterns from that era.

5. If it doesn't have a spoiler, consider adding one.

6. Add some decals. Decals may either suggest stock cars with advertising slogans or images, or historical periods. Use flames on the hood of '50s-era cars or airbrushed images on '70s-era cars, for example.

7. Continue adding things until your car looks as intimidating or as flashy as you'd like.

Tips & Warnings

• There are no rules for how your car should look. Use it as a vehicle, so to speak, of self-expression.

• Making the car too heavy may affect its performance.