You can turn almost any yard, parking lot, basketball court, driveway, or open field into a temporary RC track. Choose the surface you want to use then lay out a course using chalk, paint, tape, or flexible hosing.
- On cement or asphalt surfaces you could use chalk -- just draw your track outline. Or, use masking tape (be sure to clean up afterwards).
- If you have the permission of the property owner, spraypaint the track boundaries right on the grass or dirt or pavement -- not as easy to clean up or change as removeable lane markings).
- If you have access to it, use powdered athletic field marking lime on dirt or grass surfaces.
- An alternative to paint or chalk that provides for even more creativity would be to use a waterhose or other flexible pipe or conduit. It makes it a lot easier to change your track design. For 1:8 and 1:10 scale vehicles, the larger 3" or 4" corrugated plastic pipe (used at a lot of RC tracks) helps to keep vehicles from crossing over the track boundaries so easily.
- Use a piece of plywood elevated with another block of wood for a quick jump or pick up small skateboard ramps to use as ramps for your off-road vehicles.
- Add traffic cones (the real kind or cheap plastic ones you can buy at many toy stores) to create an obstacle course with or without other lane markings.