But, all that put me and the boys behind the curve, and we had to slap together our cars in a week - not the intricate carvings from last year, but they still won awards for speed and looks.
1. My senior Webelos' Minecraft Pig car. He decided to go for scale proportions and forgo outright speed (he's cleaned up the last two years). Got to say, his was cool. The body is hollow and the top comes off for fine-tuning weight. His award for funniest car was mostly due to the effects of a high CG and short wheelbase... the car would do a front flip every time it hit the stop section!
He was fastest off the line and down the hill, but trying to RR with the short wheelbase on a BestTrack was not a good idea: the tight-radius transition curve would pull the high front wheel down to contact the track... setting up a wiggle and slowing it down. He came away happy, though... won the peoples' choice for funniest car. He wants to build a real speedster for the council races in 2 months... game on.
2. My wolf's Racing Cage - the "Paddy Waggin", conceived as a circus train/wagon car, but his choice on the paint scheme made it a little different. The racing puppies were the only animal he wanted to put in it that we could find. Cage bars are 0.078 piano wire, and it was also set up to RR. He took 3rd in his den behind the eventual pack winner and one other car. Again, the choice of deisgn and resulting forward, centered CG hampered the car's stability in the transition curve, but his long wheelbase made his consistently faster than his older brother's. Little man has really gotten into the axle prep process and did an excellent job.
Cheers!
Wow!!! Now those are some COOL looking cars VWAffe,
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