I made a couple cars and some scatter terrain to get started. (See previous posts) I figured I should get prepared for the Death Race scenario that eventually will get played so I needed some Gates. Sure, they can be bought or 3D printed but to be honest, that’s not nearly as fun as make them from scratch.
So let’s get to it!
Gates need to be 182mm wide per the rule book. So the best thing to do is to make a 182mm template. This ensures that all of your Gates are the correct width.
I made my bases for the gates quite a lot bigger than this to leave room for the structure. I made the bases 2 1/4 x 10 1/4. Looking back on it, I probably should have made them 2 1/2” or 3”. Hind sight is 20/20. The construction materials are cheap and they are basically made for next to nothing if you don’t count labor. I sourced most of what was used from the cheapest that I could get away with. The sand was given to me by my father in law, the foam is the cheapo foam core from the Dollar Tree, the card stock is from “drink” boxes and the corrugated cardboard is from whatever boxes I had laying around. I did go nutso and glue some car bodies onto some gates (they were three for $1).
I put a line on each end of my 182mm template so I would know were to build the structure.
I cut two pieces 1x6” and one piece 1x9.5” corrugated cardboard for the skeleton. The two short pieces are the sides, the long piece is the top. Also made some gussets to hold it all stable and up right. Here’s a view from the back.
I made some rectangle pieces of card stock and punched holes in them. These were used to cover the front and some 2mm strips to go along the edges to hide the corrugation. I made a sign and traffic lights for the front also.
Hot glue some smashed up cars to the front and almost done!
‘Til next time, stay safe peeps.
