Pinewood Derby Body Skins

[sequoiaranger]

I may have botched the name, "Pineskin", but the subject is some sort of decal/contact paper "skin" that is used for "Pinewood Derby" racers (wooden cars built to a specific size and weight specification) in the States. I was in my LHS and saw them there for sale. Most of the "skins" were not "appropriate" to military vehicles, but the ones that might have application had some "gator skin" that had variegated green lumps, and another had wispy yellow smoke on black (black and yellow make olive-drab). So it would seem that these "skins" might have some whif-camo potential.

The directions on the back said to peel the stuff off the backing (I was thinking "stickers" or contact paper), lay it down, "roll" the car into it, then smooth out the wrinkles WITH WATER (now I was thinking decals). The examples they showed were, of course, cars with a somewhat continuous surface, but yet with "s" curves, etc. that would make wrinkles in contact paper. I don't know if the "skins" were stretchy or what. I was tempted to buy some just to experiment, but didn't, pending any info gleaned here.

[Jeffry Fontaine]

A quick search with Google using the search term "Pinewood Derby" resulted in a list of useful information, I took a chance and selected ABC Pinewood Derby and they had the skins you were describing available with images.  Here is the link to the skins you described and here is an image of the camouflage skin which looks pretty good.