Derby Talk is a forum for Pinewood Derby, Awana Grand Prix, Kub Kar Rally, Shape N Race Derby, Space Derby, Raingutter Regatta and other similar races where a child and an adult work together to create a race vehicle and a lot of fun and memories
I think we all probably say "I could make a car of that" at least once a day. Well my son had a den meeting cut night for his car and we were already working on it at home so we decided to cut out a car that looks like this Lego Ninjago sword. Its the weapon of choice for the Red Ninja. Those with young kids may recognize it:
Here is a picture of the toy version. We went with a gold blade as its gold in the TV show.
All show and no go. In fact it did not even race as we made it after our derby. My first attempt at carving a car out with the dremel.
Lots of fun
Seth (Noskills)
"Nunchuk skills... bowhunting skills... pinewood derby skills... Girls only want boyfriends who have great skills!"
Napoleon Dynamite
WOW!! I'm glad my son just wants to use a basic wedge design....need to make sure he can't get online to DT and see these designs or I'm going to get very busy and have to learn some new skills.
It's beautiful, Seth. Woodworking, Paint, Everything. What Clearcoat do you have on that little Beauty ?
Hi Bill,
I used 3 coats of enamel clear coat. Actually the gloss paint, which was Testers model paint, was pretty darn glossy already. The Gold was more green that I would have liked despire vigorous shaking. Should have coated it with yellow first.
Great practice with my router bit!
Seth
"Nunchuk skills... bowhunting skills... pinewood derby skills... Girls only want boyfriends who have great skills!"
Napoleon Dynamite
Did you build this car back in the 70's or 80's ? I'm digging them CMI wheels.
Mark,
What are CMI wheels? I just inherited a bag of PWD stuff from the previous cubmaster and these were in there. I figured they would not be used for emergency repairs, and there were 4 so I used them. I did like the retro look. There were also 3 mag style wheels which I liked even better.
Seth
"Nunchuk skills... bowhunting skills... pinewood derby skills... Girls only want boyfriends who have great skills!"
Napoleon Dynamite
This guy is all show and no go. I think I will race a faster car at the mid America. This was really just so we would not arrive at the den meeting empty handed. I actually did not cut the car out, just outlined it. After the dad working the bandsaw cut a few wedges in 10 sec each he looked at me like I had three heads when I handed him the block. At first he could not understand why I was cutting off the side with the slots. Then it took him like 10 min.
I send him a photo of the finished product though.
Now I have extra cool Testers model paint!
Seth
"Nunchuk skills... bowhunting skills... pinewood derby skills... Girls only want boyfriends who have great skills!"
Napoleon Dynamite
Looks like a real crowd favorite.
