Global Scale Modeller

I used my modelling skills to finish this steering wheel I made for my son's racing simulator. He's 10 and and can almost beat my lap times...

It's made from carbon fibre, wood, and leather, and uses the electronics from a Logitech G29 wheel and works well, especially with the gear change buttons on the handles.

That's really cool!

Super work
Especially when you can make your kid happy and proud

That's indeed a pretty cool project ! and out of the ordinary. Even cooler that it's actually a real one !

Superb job - your lad must be over the moon!

aur0ra145 wrote: Wed Nov 09, 2022 2:36 am That's really cool!

RangerNeil wrote: Wed Nov 09, 2022 3:34 pm Superb job - your lad must be over the moon!

digger303 wrote: Wed Nov 09, 2022 12:02 pm

Garion77 wrote: Wed Nov 09, 2022 10:36 am That's indeed a pretty cool project ! and out of the ordinary. Even cooler that it's actually a real one !

Twokidsnosleep wrote: Wed Nov 09, 2022 2:38 am Super work
Especially when you can make your kid happy and proud

Thanks all. It was indeed something different and a lot of fun to make. I'll post some vid of it in action in a little while, it looks cool with the rev indicator lighting up at the top.

My son likes it a lot but his hands will have to grow into it. He's been racing sims since he was 4 and now at 10 he can drive around a track without crashing into a corner. I used to sit with him when was little and tell him to 'brake brake brake' and watched him crash into a thousand corners. Watching him now flog an F1 car around a circuit nearly as fast as an experienced adult is the end of many years of practice.

The day after I finished it he was at the work bench carving up bits of leather and made a decent book mark. I think he was inspired to make something which is a good sign.

Good things......all of it.

Cool creation

Very neat and it inspired him to create something! Win win!