Anyone worked with these whole body design skins. How easy? How nice they look? Just place them over wood? And any concerns they reduce speed?
Car skins
- Thread starter Tim DeBoer
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Are you talking about the skins available at scout stores and hobby shops? If so I know some that have used them. They are fragile and a little tricky to install. But they are light and do not slow the car.
Scott
Scott
There are many ways you can go about it. You could print graphics on normal printer paper, spray mount it to the car and then clear coat over it with polyurethane. You could use the labels like on 5kids above. You can buy printable vinyl on Amazon and go that route. I've been using the 12" vinyl sheets from Hobby Lobby. Granted they aren't fancy designs, but they do the trick.
Here is my son's car for this year. Hobby Lobby vinyl, black sharpie on fenders.
Here is my son's car for this year. Hobby Lobby vinyl, black sharpie on fenders.
Wow, looking good Brian. Looks like you guys have come a long way since last year!
Good to see you back! How's this years car going? Let's take it to Buckeye Bullet this year!
It's okay. Nothing like yours or Buckeye's. We're not doing fenders, and it's a little rough around the edges. Not as rough as our car last years though. That one looked like a hot mess. I just don't have the wood working skills that you guys have, but we're learning a lot and having a blast. We glued the weights in last night. We'll finish it up tonight... hopefully. Weigh-ins are tomorrow, and our race is Friday.
When is your pack race? We're supposed to be in Vail, CO for the counsel race. Sucks that they schedule it on our spring break every year. I won't really worry about that until we see how we do Friday though.
Our Pack race is this Saturday. Bad news for you about the Counsel, I'm out of town around that time as well, though luckily not that weekend, was worried I might be.
For your car you should just do whatever you did last year, it certainly yielded results. Buckeye is on a whole different level. One thing I've learned this last year is they're going to be hard to beat.
For your car you should just do whatever you did last year, it certainly yielded results. Buckeye is on a whole different level. One thing I've learned this last year is they're going to be hard to beat.
Hey now Brian. I've been lurking.
We won our pack Saturday, and are trying to decide about the council race. We may go to the Catholic Camporee instead. My son just really wants the patch with his car on it for last year. Our car this year looks very similar to yours. And it was fast. Might see you in March ...
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LOL!! Matt, if you can't make it to Council, maybe all of our kids can race our cars on Brian's track for bragging rights!
Nice!! Was wondering if you made it around these parts! Come do some league racing, you're cut out for it, that's for sure. I've run cars here and over at NPWDRL.com. I thought I had learned a thing or two about PWD from Scouts, that is until I started racing against the big boys, league racing is a humbling experience. We came in 15th and 17th out of 19 cars our first race and I was ecstatic! These league guys are insane!!
Would be great to race against both of you guys and your kids in March, but if you can't make it, we can do our house, loser buys 1st and 2nd place lunch?
We'll make it a party, the kids will have fun, the wives will roll their eyes!On a different but related note, I've reached out to the Council and have found out whose in charge of the race, I want to volunteer to help set up the tracks. I watched too many cars fly off the stop section and break last year, instead of just complaining about it, I want to try and be part of the fix. Maybe we could be a united front.
Good to hear from you!
Brian
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