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[Darren B]

Went to Hobby Lobby today and found some small trees for the bed and some block looking beads from the jewerly section to use for the floarboards instead of what i had before.

[Darren B]

another pic...

[DPink]

I think a sunroof would look really nice on that truck

[Darren B]

These are going to be the seats, the shiny parts will be painted to resemble stone work.,

Edited by Darren B, 02 January 2013 - 12:10 AM.

[Darren B]

loving it so far.. but the grill looks out of place.

Yeah its not that pleasing aesthetically, just playing with ideas at this point, i was planning on hand carving something like i did on 41 chevy build but that took the better part of 8 hours to carve and I didn't want to go that far on this build. Alot of the ideas I come up with will probably change as I go along, but I love to get ideas from people here on the forum cause having other builders see it from their point of view helps me to see the bigger picture.

[Darren B]

Not a problem im always open to opinions ankd criticizm as it helps me see it from other view points s you need to just go for wild builds there really fun.

[Darren B]

Just a little update, got the grill shaped to fit the opening now to figure out what design it will be cut to!

[Darren B]

been wanting to do one of these for a long time, scale aquariums. I found some little round disks that i reamed out to fit over this tiny glass tubes. May put them in the doors or bed.

[Randy D]

Hi Darren,   Always a treat to follow one of your builds!!    Very creative with the details and a very different  theme  

 

 

 

                                Randy

[Darren B]

Hi Darren,   Always a treat to follow one of your builds!!    Very creative with the details and a very different  theme  

 

 

 

                                Randy

Thank you Randy.

[blunc]

Yeah, little Aztec lava lamps.

[Darren B]

bed covers that will have the centers carved out with an aztec design in them.

[Darren B]

[kekefe]

Interesting theme...Well done so far..

[Darren B]

Thanks KeKe, a little update.

working on figuring out what the interior foam will look like.

[Darren B]

decided on the shape of the foam for the beds....

[Darren B]

went to the gamer store today and found some more stuff to add, addicted to the gamer pieces.....


also was stalking michaels today and came across some ribbon, add some white threads on each end, instant mexican blanket, and take out the string in the middle of the sequins and you have instant scale cds!

[Darren B]

What are the stuff in the first 2 picture from.. I really think there cool.

There gamer pieces, left over pieces from like warhammer 4000 and other games, to get these usually you have to buy the whole kit, like 40.00 plus but i have a gamer store here in town that sells the left over pieces, the store is also a place that they play the games too and build right there so there are left overs,  most of the small stuff at .10 to .25 each, a lot of the skulls make great shift knobs, there are endless uses for them. Just glad that shop sells them like this or i would never be able to own them.

Edited by Darren B, 17 February 2013 - 08:27 PM.

[Darren B]

Possible wheel covers...

possible decoration on corners of bed....

Human sacrifice in the second bed.......

 thinking of firing up the vinyl cutter to make some masks for the body of the truck and use them for ghost patterns.......
 

Edited by Darren B, 19 February 2013 - 01:28 AM.

[Darren B]

yes I used to have a couple sign shops and when i went out of business sold everything, then i got to missing what can be done with a cutter but did not want to go bankrupt buying another one, then i came across uscutter.com, they sell cheap vinyl cutters, they are not the quality like a roland, summa, or gerber but for $275.00 they are not bad at all, the sample was cut at 1.25 " and may still come out near .75" so not to bad on quality and very reasonable for a vinyl cutter.

Edited by Darren B, 19 February 2013 - 09:24 AM.