GalakStarscraper
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My first experiment with ProCreateSo broke open the ProCreate yesterday and I gotta say ... wow ... I really liked this stuff compared to Green Stuff.
My younger son is in Cub Scouts ... my older is out (last year was his last year) ... but he still like to compete in the open older open age group. What you see below are my son's Pinewood Derby cars. In the USA ... the Cub Scouts is a group that learn about doing good deeds and survival skills. One of the things they do every year for fun is have a Pinewood Derby which is a race of cars that the kids design with their dads and then race on groved track. My older son took 1st and 2nd in his age class the two years he was in Scouts .. this is my youngest son's first year.
This year my sons asked me if I could actually sculpt their cars ... so I thought ... what the heck ... according to the internet ... pinewood derby cars are more about weight placement and axle smoothness and that aerodynamics mean almost nothing ... so yeah ... let's sculpt Pinewood Derby cars.
Older son said Dragon and he like to paint the car more .. the younger son wanted a Flame Spider (gotta love 7 year old imagination). So I sculpted the best spider I could with a long narrow car design and after painting him black ... we are going to put water transfer flames on his abdomen.
Anyway ... a plug for ProCreate and a look at the cars. Final picture is my son's car from last year where we Green Stuffed the eyes ... that was a Crocodile ... the dragon looks a lot like a more sculpted version of that car ... but I like the look of the new one vs last year's version.
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GalakStarscraper
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Not even a ... "wow your sculpting sucks comment" ...
Galak
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brownrob
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i was thinking about it... Id written out an extremely juvenile "This sucks!" post... but I wavered as I was about to hit submit...
Im petrified of the conceequences 
Though procreate looks alright to use :D If i didnt suck at it myself Id buy some :D
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Darkson
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I was trying to work out if your Cub Scouts is the same as the Cub Scouts movement here, and if it is, why the hell my son didn't get things to do like this.
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lawquoter
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I was a cub scout and a weeblo. Pine Wood Derby was the coolest thing when you are about 8 or 9.
like the sculpting, Tom. Have any finished pix of the spider? Very unique.
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Xtreme
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Sculpting is nice, good job Tom.
Just more of a Pine Wood Derby Traditonalist myself, I come from a family of champions. 
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GalakStarscraper
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| Xtreme wrote: | | Just more of a Pine Wood Derby Traditonalist myself, I come from a family of champions. |
So do I. Never ran a car yet with either my son or myself that didn't place 3rd or better.
However ... I'm going to believe the internet that aerodynamics don't matter and see what happens with these cars.
Galak
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Nyarlathotep
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Ah, the heady days of my childhood in the paramilitary religious youth organization...
The key points are the alignment of the car (all four wheels parallel and each pair in line) and lubrication (we used Pledge furniture polish and gave the wheels a good spin before racing to liquefy the wax). Aerodynamics do play a miniscule part, but nothing compared to the previous points.
I hope your sons do well!
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Xtreme
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Liquid lubrication is against the rules.
Cheater!
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Nyarlathotep
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| Xtreme wrote: | Liquid lubrication is against the rules.
Cheater! |
It wasn't in those days, in that league.
It wasn't Cub/Boy scouts either.
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Xtreme
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Ok i'll let it go this time then.
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GalakStarscraper
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The final product ... ... or in Joshua's words "YEAH Me!!!"
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Nyarlathotep
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| GalakStarscraper wrote: | The final product ... ... or in Joshua's words "YEAH Me!!!"
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Congratulations on the placing!
Car looks nice, too.
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fen
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We were promised a flame spider! Where's the flames? *sulks*
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GalakStarscraper
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| fen wrote: | | We were promised a flame spider! Where's the flames? *sulks* |
My 7 year old corrected me that it was not a Flame Spider ... its was supposed to be a Lava Spider which are in his words "the color of a shadow and live in lava".
I had to mix up a special colour of grey for him as Vallejo did not have the colour of Shadow according to him. The car body is the pool of Lava that the spider lives in.
Sorry fen ... my mistake on the first statement.
Galak
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Darkson
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Always listen to your kids, they know so much more than you do.
Pass on my congrats do your boy.
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GalakStarscraper
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| Darkson wrote: | | Pass on my congrats do your boy. |
 I have to laugh at this since you've been pointing out my typos today.
Galak
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Darkson
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U've obviofsly not been skooled hear in teh UK, tat's pruty god English!
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Nyarlathotep
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| GalakStarscraper wrote: | | fen wrote: | | We were promised a flame spider! Where's the flames? *sulks* |
My 7 year old corrected me that it was not a Flame Spider ... its was supposed to be a Lava Spider which are in his words "the color of a shadow and live in lava".
I had to mix up a special colour of grey for him as Vallejo did not have the colour of Shadow according to him. The car body is the pool of Lava that the spider lives in.
Sorry fen ... my mistake on the first statement.
Galak |
So... your son is one of the imaginations behind Impact! then?
That's a cool concept: Lava spiders...
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fen
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| GalakStarscraper wrote: | | fen wrote: | | We were promised a flame spider! Where's the flames? *sulks* |
My 7 year old corrected me that it was not a Flame Spider ... its was supposed to be a Lava Spider which are in his words "the color of a shadow and live in lava".
I had to mix up a special colour of grey for him as Vallejo did not have the colour of Shadow according to him. The car body is the pool of Lava that the spider lives in.
Sorry fen ... my mistake on the first statement.
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Well, it's his cart. And it got 2nd place, so obviously flames aren't a requirement for going fast, but lava power must be.
Out of interest, was there anything else there that was remotely as cool looking as your families cars?
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GalakStarscraper
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| fen wrote: | | Out of interest, was there anything else there that was remotely as cool looking as your families cars? |
You'd be surprised ... some the cars are pretty cool looking. Joshua's was definitely one of kind ... my older's son dragon car just wasn't as over the top as the Lava Spider .. however he told me he is already planning for next year.
One example of another car in the open class was one of the sisters of a scout had a car that was painted to look like a block of cheese, had a mouse driver, and two mice pretending to scream from the back. (this was her description). But it was a good laugh to see it as it used toy mice for cats that had been cut in half and glued into the top of the car and the cheese pattern was actually pretty well painted.
Most the kids don't really try and make cool looking cars ... they are focused about 90% on making a car that they think will go fast ... but Joshua's car almost proves to me that speed isn't really about body form .. its about weight and smooth + straight axles.
Galak
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Torg
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Finished car looks pretty cool, cograds to you and your boy.
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