Doing up the boy's Jummywood Derby car... He turned it on my lathe, more or
less. It's supposed to look like a rocket, but it looks like a dildo on
wheels to all the adults who have seen it. LOL! Oh well. He'll get a
real laugh out of this some day when he digs it out of the closet.
So anyway, to make it look less phallic, we decided to do it up in gloss
black with gold accents, and, JOAT will love this, gold lightning bolts
running up the sides. For the gold, I got out some Testor's enamel.
I should have remembered this from my modeling days, but I had forgotten how
the metal colors never really set up properly, and need to be top coated to
withstand handling.
So the paint was a bit gummy. While handling it, I got fingerprints into
the pretty gold. Oops. I need to top coat this. I don't have any sprays,
and I'm reluctant to brush on shellac or something, so why don't I just
give it a shot of Johnson's paste wax to protect this gold?
Has everyone already realized my mistake? Mineral spirits-based paint,
mineral spirits in the wax... So I smeared the lovely gold all over the
thing, and furthermore, I left waxy residue all over it that eliminated the
option to top coat with some other finish.
Gack.
I'm glad my son is a forgiving sort of person.
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In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] says...
>
> At the end of the day, it doesn't matter that much. The kid who won every
> race last year carved a couple hunks out of his block of wood with a pocket
> knife, painted it red, hot glued some Legos all over it, and hammered in
> the stock wheels with the stock nails, crooked. It didn't even weigh 5 oz.
We have a rental track that I've put a "pace car" into the kit to
prevent an empty lane during the races. The pace car is just the bare
kit, sharpie-enscribed "Ofishul Pace Car" (misspelling intentional),
sanding sealer, and wheels installed and axels hot-glued in place. Just
enough weight added to make sure it goes downhill.
I've had to ding a wheel to slow it down so it doesn't win. After 10
years of doing this the only two things that really make a difference
are gettign the weight as close to the 5 ounce limit as possible and
having the wheels straight.
/vic
Silvan,
hypothetically speaking of course, were I to have made a similar error in
days gone by, I might have run to the model shop and purchased an armful of
stickers to strategically place all over the car. This is just hypothetical
remember.....
Depending on your sense of humour, you might 'plant' an adult related
sticker in there somewhere for his future amusement. 'Playboy' will just
appear to be a sponsor.
Greg
"Silvan" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Doing up the boy's Jummywood Derby car... He turned it on my lathe, more
or
> less. It's supposed to look like a rocket, but it looks like a dildo on
> wheels to all the adults who have seen it. LOL! Oh well. He'll get a
> real laugh out of this some day when he digs it out of the closet.
Groggy wrote:
> of stickers to strategically place all over the car. This is just
> hypothetical remember.....
>
> Depending on your sense of humour, you might 'plant' an adult related
> sticker in there somewhere for his future amusement. 'Playboy' will just
> appear to be a sponsor.
LMAO!
I think not before, but maybe after the race...
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SteveC1280 wrote:
> Viagra may be interested in sponsoring you car. FYI, if you want to win,
> be sure to chuck the axles in a drill or drill press and polish them with
> emory cloth and then rubbing compound. A little graphite lubricant will
help also.
At the end of the day, it doesn't matter that much. The kid who won every
race last year carved a couple hunks out of his block of wood with a pocket
knife, painted it red, hot glued some Legos all over it, and hammered in
the stock wheels with the stock nails, crooked. It didn't even weigh 5 oz.
We're thinking the Legos were his secret somehow. Some kind of advanced
aerodynamic phenomenon.
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Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan <[email protected]>
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Victor Radin wrote:
> I've had to ding a wheel to slow it down so it doesn't win. After 10
LOL! I can imagine.
> years of doing this the only two things that really make a difference
> are gettign the weight as close to the 5 ounce limit as possible and
> having the wheels straight.
Sometimes not even that. :)
The pace car thing is a cute idea. We never run anything down the middle
lane. I might borrow that this year.
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Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan <[email protected]>
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