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Step 4Cut out the Bottom.
Reassemble your 3 pieces of wood (you may want to mark top/bottom/sides so you can remember what goes where), and use them to measure out a bottom for the launcher.
We used a scrap of stiff plastic, about the thickness of poster board, but anything stiff and thin like that would work. Measure around your wood block to figure out the size, sketch onto the plastic, and cut with a box cutter knife.
Leave extra on the front (2-3 inches) for a 'loading ramp'.
Note: You'll see the lines on the front of our loading ramp labeled 'tongue'. Although we currently have no actual Hot Wheels tracks, we wanted to ensure this would work with a store bought track when we got one. Should we at some point get a track, we will cut off the 'loading ramp', and cut out a piece of it to be a 'tongue' (or 'connector') which can then be glued under the laucher, to connect a standard hot wheels track.So we left a "tongue" which can be inserted into the underside of a track to attach the launcher.
We used a scrap of stiff plastic, about the thickness of poster board, but anything stiff and thin like that would work. Measure around your wood block to figure out the size, sketch onto the plastic, and cut with a box cutter knife.
Leave extra on the front (2-3 inches) for a 'loading ramp'.
Note: You'll see the lines on the front of our loading ramp labeled 'tongue'. Although we currently have no actual Hot Wheels tracks, we wanted to ensure this would work with a store bought track when we got one. Should we at some point get a track, we will cut off the 'loading ramp', and cut out a piece of it to be a 'tongue' (or 'connector') which can then be glued under the laucher, to connect a standard hot wheels track.So we left a "tongue" which can be inserted into the underside of a track to attach the launcher.
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