Pinewood Derby Trophies by Troysterr

Troysterr

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Print Profile(1)

All

X1 Carbon

P1S

P1P

X1E

0.2mm layer, 2 walls, 15% infill

2.9 h

5 plates

Open in Bambu Studio

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Description

Summary

These are simple pinewood derby trophies that can be customized for your pack (or company, or whatever).

The base, tire and plaque are all customizable using the Customize feature.

Alternatively, you can download the .scad files and open them in OpenSCAD.

If you want all 4 trophies, there are a lot of parts to print, but they are all relatively simple and need no rafts or supports.

I uploaded wood bases for 2022, 2023 and 2024. For future years, use the Customize feature.

Print Settings

The tire is customizable and I printed mine by printing most of it with black filament, then paused the printer when the lettering starts and swapped out for white.

The plaques were printed similarly: Print the first few layers in a metallic filament, then pause and switch for black.

Of course, you could also paint the parts, but I happen to have all the right filaments (including metallic gold, silver, bronze, and copper), so I didn't use any paint (although I did stain the wood bases).

The filaments I used:

Amolen Dark Wood Walnut: Wood base
Overture PLA+ Black: Plaques, tires, seat belt
FlashForge White: White lettering on tires
MIKA3D Shiny Silk Silver and Copper: Metal risers and plaque lettering for 2nd place and Safest Driver, wheels, seat belt buckle
Amolen Bronze: Metal riser and plaque lettering for 3rd place
YOUSU Silk Gold: Metal riser and plaque lettering for 1st place

Post-Printing

The only part that I processed after printing was the wood base. I printed it using a filament that contains wood particles, then stained with a penetrating stain.

Once all the parts are printed, just super glue them together.

How I Designed This

The tires for the trophies in the photo were NOT customized using OpenSCAD. I designed them in Fusion 360 with the PACK 20 text and exported and printed them.

To make the tire customizable, I created a copy in Fusion 360, removed the top line of text, exported to .stl., converted the .stl file to OpenSCAD and added code to make the top line of text customizable.

pinewoodderby

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pinewood derby

Comment & Rating (17)

@Chipper

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I would like to see about adding the year to the riser part of the trophy and use the year area on the base for the different dens. Can the risers be added to the customizer?

The designer has replied

@Troysterr

That's an interesting idea. I really like the clean look of the smooth risers, but I wouldn't mind tinkering with adding text. I'll play around with a few ideas and get your thoughts.

@Chipper

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Replying to @Troysterr :

I agree with you and the clean look. Now that you have pointed that out. Ugggggg. Decisions decisons.

@Troysterr

Replying to @Chipper :

Here's a thought: I've updated the customizer on Thingiverse to allow you to put text on the sides and the back. You could put the Den on top and the year on one or both of the sides. Or on the back, I suppose. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6279894

@user_2333286601

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I am printing these trophies for our district PWD and they are turning out great. Would you be willing to share the file with the seat belt?

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@Troysterr

I'm not sure I understand what you are asking for...the seat belt is one of the .STL files available from the "Download or Print" button. Is that what you are looking for? By the way, I didn't create the print profile, so I can't vouch for it. I should create one that contains the full suite of parts...I'll try to do that soon.

@user_2333286601

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Replying to @Troysterr :

I see it now, I was just hitting open in Bambu studio, not .STL files. Thank you for letting me know that it is there. :)

@Troysterr

Replying to @user_2333286601 :

Ah, that makes sense. Before someone added a profile, it was pretty obvious that you needed to download the .STLs. Now that a profile is there, the most natural thing to do is to try to use it. A print profile really isn't useful, because each person that wants to print trophies for their own troop/pack/company will need to customize at least the tire.

@Morgus

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These were great, made some remix changes to them to get them how I wanted them, but amazing work! Will try and post my remix. Still trying to work out how to get the wheel where it is customizeable and includes the new portion of the trophy that I added. More of a Blender person than OpenSCAD.

The designer has replied

@Troysterr

Thanks, I'm glad it worked out for you. And, yeah, OpenSCAD is pretty hard to swallow if you're coming from Blender or Fusion 360. Kinda fun to learn, though. In case you haven't come across it yet, here's my favorite resource, in addition to the OpenSCAD documentation: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSCAD_User_Manual/Customizer

@Morgus

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Replying to @Troysterr :

Yeah its tough, trying to figure out how to incorporate my topper and keep the wheel customized, wonder if I can upload a .blend file that I used to make my council's derby version of the wheel that doesn't have the pinewood derby on the bottom. Here is a pic of one of my pack trophies. Uploaded all my files without the topper for now, took the topper from another thingiverse project.

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@Troysterr

Replying to @Morgus :

Nice!

@Chipper

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I am looking at the tire a when I download the file into tinkered, it has the Pack 20 already on it. I can't figure out how to remove it or edit it. Am I missing something?

The designer has replied

@Troysterr

You need to use the customizer on Thingiverse. Click the "Tire" link in the Summary, then click Customize. For more information about the Thingiverse Customizer, go to this link: https://www.thingiverse.com/apps/customizer EDIT: It is no longer necessary to use the Thingiverse Customizer. Just use the Customize button below the list of profiles here in Maker World.

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