Ive previously printed a FormulaD track and just cut the track manually in Paint into several tiles into a Word-doc and then printed, cut and glued onto cardboard. very easy, cheap and great result!
of course you need to work at an office with a good colour laser printer
and a comment on the track. The Ford-curve is the absolute slowest part on the track. And considering its rather long (13spaces) i would consider changing that to a 3-stopper to get the feeling of a bottleneck.
13 spaces are, in my opinion, too few for a 3 stop corner. With 'perfect' entry and then 2' - 3' gear, the probability of taking damage is too big, and going in 2' gear twice makes the corner too long and hence uninteresting.
On the subject, 3 stop corners are normally not slow in FD, only the first move, or the entry, depending on circumstances. The really slow corners are normally short 2 stop corners that force you into low gears.
I did not want to make the corner shorter, and was not too happy about the prospects of a longer 3 stop corner either, so it got stuck there.
The only corner comment from the playtester (only 1 ) was on the Ford corner being "interesting" and that I should keep it as it was, because it offered many possibilities for driving.. Subsequently I shortened it by a space in both outer lanes to make the spaces a bit longer to accomodate the miniatures, but it is kept pretty much as it was during testing.
Just received a printed copy of this track. I had it printed on a piece of 70x100cm (28"x40") 235g photo paper. It looks fantastic and I'm very much looking forward to playing this track next time I play Formula D.
In another thread, I have learned that Adobe Reader X is able to rpint out on multiple pages. Open the PDF file, click print, and select the "Poster" option. You are now able to set the overlap and whether you want cut marks or not plus some other stuff. Nice and free :-)
