Life's little lessons are hard, aren't they?

The Pinewood Derby was successful, except for the child that got sulky because he didn't have the fastest car and he received no special recognition for what he thought was a spectacular car.  That would be The Eldest of course.  Life's little lessons are hard, aren't they?  He'll learn sooner or later.

I finally got the official pics of the car with the wheels on it:

From the front:

The guns on the hood were made from Legos that were hot glued on to the car.  All chrome was done with a silver Sharpie marker.  Headlights were glued on green jewels.  Rockets were created from dollhouse torches that were sawed off and glued into pre-drilled holes.

Side View:

Back View:

The Hornet license plate was taken from a pic found online.  I put it into Word and shrunk it down then printed it out. 

The entire car had a really thick clear coat put on it as well.  I would not recommend doing this in a freezing garage though. The clear coat (first one) ended up creating a crackle finish all over the car.  Now, I don't know about you, but I don't think the mega wealthy green hornet would have that bad of a paint job on his car.  So, I sanded it off, repainted the black, re-did the silver and then clear coated it (indoors this time) again.  Basically, we did all the paint stuff twice.  I won't be doing that again!  Life's little lessons are hard, aren't they?

First Look at the Green Hornet Pinewood Derby Car

Pinewood Derby Season for the Cub Scouts has arrived again.  The Eldest decided this year that he wanted The Black Beauty car from The Green Hornet.

I think the toughest part of this car this year was getting the general shape of the car.  There has been much sanding and dremelling going on around here.  I could kick myself for not getting a pic of the car before painting it, but oh well.

Here's what it looked like after it had been painted black and had Silver Sharpie "Chrome" drawn on it:

 

The next step involved taking a trip to Hobby Lobby and trying to get my son to stay out of the pinewood derby section for what we needed.  He's a very straight forward child and to him, if it's not in that section, then you can't use it.  Not a problem.  

The first section that I made him go to was the doll house section.  Boy did he not want to do that.  That's girl stuff!  But he started listening really quick once I told him my vision.  I had found some plastic translucent torches that were perfect for making green rockets.   We ultimately had to cut off the fat part of the torch and just use the stem in order to get the correct look.  Worked perfectly.   Then I pulled him into the jewelry making section to grab some glue on jewels to make headlights. 

Here's a pic of the materials: 

 

The Eldest also wanted guns coming out of the hood like in the movie, so we raided our box of legos to get these and mounted them with hot glue:

Don't these all look great used together?

The car is currently getting a clear coat of paint to seal everything and then it will get it's wheels.  I'll show you the final version when it's finished.

Pinewood Derby Skateboard Car Followup

Well, the 2010 Pinewood Derby is finally over.  The car did not do as well as the Eldest would have wished on the track (his father set the wheels wrong and they scraped the center of the track), but everyone thought the Skateboard Car was really cool.  That's good enough for his creative department (me) to be happy!

I wanted to show you guys the finished product:

Specs:

- Painted Hemi Orange
- All artwork was body tattoos!  Had to be very careful placing these on the board.  They wanted to slide all over the place.
- Coated the car in resin to get a high shine.