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No idea Haz, you'll have to ask Hits. They aren't "normal" GW... not the tech priest and the servitor anyway. They're metal but with extremely fine and delicate detail. I'm not saying they aren't GW... just that they're outside of what I consider the usual standards of production.



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I'm hopelessly bogged down in the Pinewood Derby stuff, so I apologize for no substantive updates. Got a large chunk of the event dumped in my lap at the last minute and so far it's NOT going well. Can't get Thing 2's car to track straight & can't find the screws to put the track together. Uugh. How I would love just to sit and paint my minis....

The only thing we ever built in cubs to race was a car powered by an elastic band and with wheels made out of coton reels. :(

The car looks great Gits! It really takes me back

And I am working on finishing my 3K empire army as seen in my painting blogg

So I'm guessing you get a block of pinewood to carve the car out of, and then what? Drop 'em down ramps and see who gets furthest?


Why look something up on google when you've got dakka, hey?

monkeytroll wrote:So I'm guessing you get a block of pinewood to carve the car out of, and then what? Drop 'em down ramps and see who gets furthest?


Why look something up on google when you've got dakka, hey?

You see which one goes fastest. You race em!

Ah right. So you have potential for crashes and non-finishers and all sorts of interesting stuff going on. Something like a ramp with a finish line five feet away (or whatever). Sounds fun.

M0rdain, I remember making those too. As a kid I always thought that if I wound the wheels in opposite directions the car should be super fast in an East-West direction as it would stay on the spot as the world turned beneath it at 1000mph

Hey Johnny! Thanks for stopping by!

You get a block of wood, four nails for axles and 4 tires. There is always a weight limit, but depending on what your particular Scout District's rules are beyond that... everything else is negotiable. But yes, you drop them on a 40' track and see who's goes the fastest. Not too many opportunities for crashes as the lanes are separate and nearly 100 percent will get all the way down.

Here's a short news thingie of our District's finals two years ago... my boys and I are there somewhere (not in the vid though)



Or... you can watch this!

OK, you can't. Apparently South Park is blocked from work.

Google "South Park" and "Pinewood Derby" video.... I'm sure you'll find plenty.

Space cash! for everyone!

Good luck at the derby!

SL

I remember doing that as a kid. Almost came in first until i got bumed droped my car and it didnt run right afterward. Still was a lot of fun though.

Gitsplitta wrote:You get a block of wood, four nails for axles and 4 tires. There is always a weight limit, but depending on what your particular Scout District's rules are beyond that... everything else is negotiable. But yes, you drop them on a 40' track and see who's goes the fastest. Not too many opportunities for crashes as the lanes are separate and nearly 100 percent will get all the way down.

Local rules typically have age classes (5-6, 7-9, 10+), an adult class, and then a "open class" were there are no rules, and trophies are given out for the quality of your Conversion rather than the speed of your car. Since dads in our area tend to work for places like Sandia and Laurence Livermore Labs developing DOD level dodads, I've seen some awesome performance from cars in the open, and truth be told, that's both where my passion for modeling, my learning of 'proper' safty skills, and my first set of stiches and scars came from.

@SL: Space cash??

I have to work with Thing 2 to finish his car, then build the track tonight at the house... and fix it (it really needs to be retired). Should be a late night.

Year's ago I war running my eldest's car down our old track to test it, when his car hit a bolt on the way down & launched into space. Landed on the hard floor and smashed into pieces.


Interesting Bounty... sounds like a lot of fun! Coolest thing I've ever seen was a toy jet aircraft's light-up afterburners and sounds put into a car.

Gitsplitta wrote:Interesting Bounty... sounds like a lot of fun! Coolest thing I've ever seen was a toy jet aircraft's light-up afterburners and sounds put into a car.

I remember having old solid wheels, and one guy used a micrometer at work to thin them down to where they actually cut the track as they rolled down. One dad was notorius for testing his car in model wind chamber used to test models of fighter jets. Funniest one ever was the guy who painted the un-cut block to look like a box of Pampers, and stuck half a babydoll on top like it was riding in the box.

Coolest race ever though had to be around 12 years old or so when we took them off the track, and added a couple of Estes AA rockets. We also changed it from 40' to the quarter mile. I see these commericals for radio controled cars saying " up to 200 scale miles per hour" and remember when I sent on a REAL 60 miles per hour.

You mentioned south park...Reference to the South parks episode ...where Stans pinewood car triggers a intergalactic event involving a imaginary space thief on the run after stealing a lot of space cash.

Usually this is WM job. Back to your regular schedule program.

SL

@Bounty: Coooool..... Would have loved to see that. When I was a cub the cars still had the tall thin wheels. Now we've got the bloody huge fat slicks that are perpetually mis-cast. Real PITA to deal with, especially now that you are no longer allowed to even try and round them.

@SL: AH, my bad for pointing people to a youtube vid that I couldn't see myself so I have no idea what the content was... just that it WAS there.

My you are looking fairly dapper these days Mr 'Splitta.

And this is why we ask Dakka, rather than Jeeves.
If I'd searched on google for pinewood derny I'm guessing the first few links would be to wiki articles and I'd have clicked on one of those. And I can't see that sending me to a deleted scene from South Park involving Stan's dad swearing like a sweary thing that's just had it's gak stolen and been fethed up by something nasty in a sweary type way.

And as a bonus I still learnt what pinewood derby is all about

Thanks dakka

It's all Evil Aunt Iffy's fault. I've just fallen under her highly questionable influence.


@mt: (deep, omnipresent voice) Your welcome.

Gitsplitta wrote:It's all Evil Aunt Iffy's fault. I've just fallen under her highly questionable influence.

Oh no! Do we need the Inquisition to come and get you Gits?!

The Inquisition?? NO ONE expects the Spanish Inquisition!! Take him to..... THE COMFY CHAIR!

What are your chief weapons?

...and an almost fanatical devotion to rivets...err I mean the Pope...Ahh, let me come in again...

Solar_lion wrote:You mentioned south park...Reference to the South parks episode ...where Stans pinewood car triggers a intergalactic event involving a imaginary space thief on the run after stealing a lot of space cash.

Usually this is WM job. Back to your regular schedule program.

SL

What's that mean?!?

I am just plain confused, Although I like blinged up gits alot!

Gitsplitta wrote:No idea Haz, you'll have to ask Hits. They aren't "normal" GW... not the tech priest and the servitor anyway. They're metal but with extremely fine and delicate detail. I'm not saying they aren't GW... just that they're outside of what I consider the usual standards of production.

The servitor and tech priest are Forgeworld and should be resin (I have them both). Some of the skulls may possibly be metal as there were some that looked like that in the Inquisition boxes from years back.

Death or cake?

urm cake please.

I think you're right endtrans... they seemed awfully heavy to me at first but not that I give them a much more measured lift they are too light for metal.

What's that mean?!?

That the job of pointing out the Obivious and all things of Refrence is usually reserved for a Master of such as you. It's a gift!

SL

I only know what this pinewood derby is because of southpark.

OK, home today. Just watched the pinewood derby South Park episode... very funny. "Finland?! Oh no... NOT Finland!"

THEN I watched the deleted scene... haven't laughed that hard in a long time.

Here in Canada Its called kub kar racing. I remember making one when I was in scouts. I carved it and painted it all by myself. lol It was RED go figure. It had gold lighting bolts on the sides. Looking at it now I did a really good job.

I also remember my Dad taking it to work... I thought he was showing it off

I found out later that he drilled out the center and filled it with weight, up to the Regulated limit.

I always thought I won due to the Lighting bolts!

Well, we finally finished Thing 2's car. Not bad looking... we'll see how it runs. Now I have to see if I can get the track put together...



In spite of re-sizing the original... it only seems to appear giant-sized... sorry mates. OH, and I should point out for the many non-US folks that the design is in support of an American football team, the Chicago Bears. Now... the Bears are really *my* team as I grew up in Chicago & both boys and their mom root for the Packers... but for some reason he got fixated on making a Bears car. Cool with me. I'm sure it'll get boo'd roundly though which will make it all the more fun IF it actually turns out to be fast. Big if...