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Wow thats awesome, I wish that cubs do that over here! I could make.... er help by brother.

dang, that is a pretty raw pinewood derby car

Gitsplitta wrote: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...

I then, am disappointed, because cutting a Triangle wedge out of the block, and going to town on it with a 1/2" drill bit before coating it heavily in Yellow Spray paint would have been SO MUCH COOLER!

If you care who's shirt I wear, it's Seahawks btw.

Already did that... 2009. Fastest car we every built actually.

BANG! (Replying to your new title)

Well, I'm about done anyway... just a matter of if I have any time to get any real 40k painting work done so I can post some real progress.

our wife and kids where shurly disappointed to see the crackers i mean packers lose to the giants.....

on the car why the bears and not the cubs (c what i dit there)

and next year it doesn't mather bears, packers, seahawks the saints will win again and again and again

Blasphemy!

You should do a mustang for the Broncos as well (my shirt ehehe)

you should do a rams car, because we are going to win the super bowl with mike fischer at the helm!!! lol, look out seahawks dude...

well it almost has the right colors just instead of that orange it needs to be gold (rams fan) good looking car though. and we all know the truth the rams are going to make it to the end and then choke like they normally do.

so..this is REALLY a competition for the Dads??
LOL

dsteingass wrote:so..this is REALLY a competition for the Dads??
LOL

Yep! And the older brothers that feel like they could do better than their dad

Here's the fun for adults:

Pinewood Derby with 450% more wheels!

Being a Bears fan myself I must say.....

DAH BEARS!

GIT! I am incredibly ashamed of you. YOU of all people. The great Gitsplitta! IT NEEDS TO BE RED! RED MAKE GO FASTA!

Its only a few more points dude.

I never paint my ork vehicles red. They're bad moons dammit. Yellow and black. Stupid rule. We've made plenty of red cars... just none this year. You've seen Thing 2's... Thing 1 made his own this year & it looks vaguely like a banana.

As an Eagle Scout. I know how important it is to be in the pinewood derby. Good luck haha.

I've been lurking for all of this pinewood talk, but Asherian Command brought me in...

As a fellow Eagle Scout, I too remember my days of pinewood derby racing.. I went to districts twice, and came in 4th my first time, and didn't do well my second time lol...

Best of luck to the things

its funny, while cleaning through boxes found my car from waay back when i was in scouts, its the classic USA car painted like the flag, and with stickers all in it.. then my 5th grade woodshop car which is a more aerodinamic oscarmayer weiner mobile.. too bad it came in 2nd behind the teachers car

I think the best either of my boys has ever come in at districts was 12th or 13th, which is middle of the pack. Our districts are crazy-competitive.

Nice to see some Eagle Scouts on the blog. My nephew is as well.

Yeah I have noticed the steady increase in Eagles recently but that is completely OT.
Anyway what you can do is you can put on like magnets so the cars next to it crash into each other.

I have to admit being an Eagle Scout, I'm also the Cub Master, and I sit on Eagle Board of Reviews. Love scouting, but it's getting to be more time intensive every year.

Gits, I noticed you have just broken the 1000 picture uploads barrier too! Watch out I'm catching you up though!

Well since all of my fellow eagle scouts are coming out of the woodwork, i must say that my pinewood derby cars were always rather...mediocre...i wish i had spent more time on them now.

Isn`t there a movie about this derby?

R

Where have all the Mantis warriors gone? Hows the assault squad build.

SL

They've all climbed into little wooden cars for the racin'

Sorry SL, won't have any time to work on figures until after tomorrow. A lot of the derby got dropped into my lap at the last minute, including helping a bunch of families build their cars, fixing up the track & building a new finishing gate. I simply haven't had any time to do anything else. MW are on hold until this is over. I will say one thing... the assault marines should be pretty quick as they've all got a thin layer of graphite on 'em now.

@Reaper: Didn't even notice that. Go figure. It's all those battle reports and WIP shots... You are catching up quickly my friend. Have really been enjoying your blog!

dajobe wrote:you should do a rams car

my team i am a forward prop