Recent content by bamaderbyfan

The build involved dremel work, blade, wood files, and chisels. The grill was done with small strips of wood I cut and glued down then used my palm chisels to shave down. I got the palm chisels towards the end of the build but man did that make a difference. I look forward to using them on my...

I have to sweat the paint, it drives me to get better at it. I have improved over where I started and I plan to get better

I got done with the car, as I feared the paint is not great and looks even worse after a night of racing but I will post pics anyway.

I have been away from my build for a few days, but over the weekend I was finally able to get back to it for awhile. Here are the updates;

Mojo Racing 37 minutes ago Quote: Originally Posted by bamaderbyfan I appreciate y'all saying nice things about my work. The painting part is what I will struggle with. I haven't done enough painting to be able to lay down real smooth coats. I didn't discover I could carve wood until my mid...

I appreciate y'all saying nice things about my work. The painting part is what I will struggle with. I haven't done enough painting to be able to lay down real smooth coats. I didn't discover I could carve wood until my mid 30's and I had no idea how soothing it could be. Now if I can just...

It has been a productive few days on my journey to the Dark Side.

Roll Tide Mojo! That onside kick blew my mind, I couldn't believe Saban pulled that out of his back pocket.

Here are a few update pics. The blue tape is used to provide and esy to see line for me not to cross when I am carving and sanding to shape. The final pic is to show what I hope it will look like when complete.

I plan on hollowing it out as much as possible, it is all pine so I will have to take some wood out to get the weight down. Those pics are from last week, I have made some progress since then and I will load the pics as soon as possible. Bama

We are preparing for my son's fourth Pinewood Derby he decided to move away from the cool cars and go for speed. I have found over the last few years that I enjoy carving these little gravity hot rods. When looking at my sons Hot Wheels I was inspired by the Darth Vader Corvette (Google the...