Pinewood Derby Trophies

Summary

NOTE: I recommend that you NOT use any of the profiles that have been submitted by other users and instead use the Customize feature to design your own parts and download them, and download the non-customizable parts as .stl files. This will allow you to customize the year, the name of your unit or derby, etc.

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.

Edit 1/26/2025: I replaced my original SCAD file for the customizable tire with a parameterized design by colinng. It's much cleaner. I also added the ability to choose between a few different fonts, fixed an issue in colinng's code caused by an apparent bug in MakerWorld customizer, and removed some settings that aren't necessary for this trophy design.

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.