A new year, a new crop of cars. Our Cub Scout pack is having 3 races this year: the Scout race, a sibling race and a parent race. Thus, the third car is my own.
From top to bottom, the cars are the boy’s, the lass’ and mine. Not sure how we all ended up designing similar cars. I came up with mine on my own. The kids chose theirs from a book we got about the Derby.
I cut the blanks again. The cutting was a breeze by comparison with last year, for which I was glad. Some other Scouts came over and I cut out there cars as well. Tough to beat a bandsaw when it comes to Derby car work.
Unlike last year, the kids traced their design onto the blanks and then did all the sanding themselves. So they’ve already contributed more to this years project than last year. They’re looking forward to the painting and they’ve started picking out stickers as well. The lass is going for a patriotic theme and wants to paint her car red, white and blue like the American Flag. The boy wants his jet black. I’m just figuring on painting mine using some of the left over paint. Probably blue.
The Derby isn’t for a couple of weeks though. So we’ve got time to get them done. Should be fun.