When we first designed our "race track" for the jousting knights to move around, we picked the dimensions of a typical GW horse base as being 60mm x 35mm
This requires the distance between the horizontal arms of our track to be at least 35mm apart (assuming the knights will travel perfectly along the centre of the track. Since we need half-a-base-width for each knight, and there are two knights, it was easy enough to arrive at 35mm distance apart.
We then allowed 6mm for our "bar" between the two knights (the bar to be cut from 3mm mdf plus a few mm for any embellishments) and we quickly arrived at a minimum distance of not less than 42mm apart.
But that was assuming that the drive belt would be running through the middle of our character bases. But since we mounted the magnets on little "arms", that's no longer the case. And watching our two fake-bases travelling around the track (see previous video) they do appear to be quite a way apart from each other.
Our knights are going to have to carry extra-long lances, just to reach each other, over the bar!
So I guess we're going to have to redesign the size/shape of our track, to make it "thinner" and have the horses run past each other at a closer distance....
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