Speedster wrote: ↑Fri Dec 06, 2019 5:03 am
mclewis_13, please let me share some information that I hope will be of interest to you.
First, Whoda is a Master of posting pictures on Derbytalk. If we can get him to show us some of the pictures of trucks he has built you will notice the front wheels of the trucks are very close to the front of the truck. Are you using the Boy Scout BSA kit? The position of the front wheels is critical as I move to my second point.
Second: I urge you to go to the "Mid America Pinewood Derby" and read about the "Class B" truck racing. The race is held each year around the 1st of May.
Your truck will very easily be able to be converted to a "Class B" racer and then you can mail your truck to the race and come and help me try to beat Whoda.
Give it some thought. Two different races using basically the same truck.
I wish you the Best.
Bill
Whoda, your pictures are no longer available under car and truck photos.
Thanks Speedster .. Guess i could post a few pic's of some truck builds over the years.
Tiny pic has shut down.. so yes i know all the pics are no longer available in the topics.
mclewis_13
When i first started talking here on Derby Talk .. my pic's were way over size I had some help from member's Fat Sebastian how to post them and Randy on how to resize them.
Funny that Bill.. AKA Speedster would say that I'm a Master at posting pic's!
I just had some good help back then.. on how to post them here and how to have them re sized down to 640 x 640 that's all.
Any how mclewis_13
per Request of Speedster.
Here is a pic of my very 2nd scratch built truck to build with out a kit.. plus this photo was one of my first pic's to post when i first started here on Derby Talk.
At that time my pics were way over size for viewing.
The next pic is of the very first big rig i made using scratch lumbers it was built based off the first 18 wheeler big rig kit.
The truck by it' self is 7 in long in the pic below.
Convoy's Rubber Duck truck was build off a photo and pattern that drew out of it.
This Rat Rod Rig build was inspired just by a truck model photo:
This was one of my semi truck design concepts.. using Space walker's Nellie Faye fenders that he designed in memory of his mother.
This truck build was Bill's Favorite design!
I used this same concept design for my Bob cat rig build that can be seen under this topic:
https://www.derbytalk.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=8724
The longer truck i shared pics of in my earlier postings were of a class B rig I built and raced in the 2nd or 3rd Mid America class B rig race.
I called that rig plum crazy. .Most all of my builds start off with a side view of a pattern that I draw out.. or of a photo or model of one!
From there I build them.. sometime's changing up things i build them.
Some of the builds for the very first Mid America 18 wheeler and Class B Truck race.
1940's Buddy L toy semi truck:
The wife's vintage truck build.. Pink Piano.
And my Class B Rig Blue Sonic:
These 3 rigs were raced in the very first Mid America Big Rig Race back in 2015 . I had the only class b rig running that year as well.
video of the racing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2FY1f7T-hI
Anyhow Bill is right.. Racing the Big Rig 18 Wheeler's and the Class B Rig 's are a blast at Mid America!
I even raced the Tyrone Malone Super Boss truck there.
There Rule set can be found here:
http://www.mid-americaderby.com/home/bi ... semi-rules
Best of luck with your Awana's Truck Build !