crazyrichard Posted January 14, 2015 Author Posted January 14, 2015 started building a floor jack , still rough , will be slightly longer in the back with caster wheels
crazyrichard Posted January 14, 2015 Author Posted January 14, 2015 so much difefrent style floorjacks .. the general version has got those tiny coaster wheels in the back .. if i would make those scale wise they would be soo tiny and because my idea was to make it so it can take the weight of all my models without collapsing .. i made bigger rear wheels .. thet are not fixed wheels on the back there is a shaft where the wheel is on and that sits under the mount plate .. so in theory thats where they would swivvel .. added a side bracket and sprayed primer .. i already shot color on it 10 minutes ago .. but that will come later its dry time now and it does take the weight of all my models here is a shot with the surf woody ... the plan is to put it in the dio in such a way i can always put a car resting on the jack , so for future modelcars i have a cool picture spot dimensions are good i think (?)
crazyjim Posted January 14, 2015 Posted January 14, 2015 It looks to be a little short to me, Richard.
crazyrichard Posted January 15, 2015 Author Posted January 15, 2015 thnx and yes its short .. and tbh i like the longer ones but it kind of happened while building .. and i found a few that are close to this , beefy but relativly short already got paint and chrome on it i will post some pics when its done
crazyrichard Posted January 15, 2015 Author Posted January 15, 2015 finished the floorjack and in the end put the jack in this spot , looked best , to put it so i can put cars on it for pictures would mean it would sit in the middle of the floor , looked weird .. 2 random pics >
crazyrichard Posted January 17, 2015 Author Posted January 17, 2015 thnx guys i removed the steel pipe for the electric wires going from the wall to the lift .. thats now fed trough the floor the spots that where damaged when removing the piping i dressed up .. on top a air vent .. thats drilled open so daylight can be seen through the vent .. on the bottom above the sink i put a wooden strip and made a sign > maid on strike clean up after yourself (lol)
gasser59 Posted January 17, 2015 Posted January 17, 2015 Man that is so nice. Like that you took out the electrical feed to the lift. Seemed out of place to me and was a bit distracting. Carry on mate.
crazyrichard Posted January 17, 2015 Author Posted January 17, 2015 yes i know a nother guy was ranting about that (in a fun / nice way lol) for a while .. now that i had more smalld etails it started too look to bulky and it did take away a lot of sight .. so in the end i got rid of it
crazyrichard Posted January 17, 2015 Author Posted January 17, 2015 yes i agree .. but it needed something , added 2 bolts in the housing , brass ribbed power line with a distribution box (looked better then a curved line) and a turn switch below (not done yet)
bobthehobbyguy Posted January 17, 2015 Posted January 17, 2015 That last shot says it all. Looks like a full size garage. Hard to believe its a model.
crazyrichard Posted January 18, 2015 Author Posted January 18, 2015 on tv i saw how they painted a dash in a way it looked like real wood , the guys from kindigit did that ... i loved seeing that !! when i fund a styrene surfboard in my partsbox last night i got the idea to try that in scale ... paint it so it looks a close to real wood as possible .. kind of a test so i sanded it right away in matte beige .. later on when it was dry i painted normal wood stain over it (red-ish) , the stuff you use around the house for real wood . then with a woooden meat stick (sate) with sharp point i randomly made some grain in the stain ... this morning i polished the stain with a soft (moist) cloth to get the stickyness off .. then took dark brown oil paint and started washing the board to give it more nuance and tones and then i started thinking ...lately i used clear tape on signs instead of clear coat ... this protects the print and clear will go into the paper and makes the print blurry .. but the clear tape gives suck a consistant smooth glossy surface .. why not try to 3-d wrap the board in clear tape ? put the clear tape on tape and the grain i made now with a lighter at a bit of distance i heated the tape so it got softer and wrapped it around the edges and stuck it on the backside .. when cooled down took a blade and cut away the excess tape this was the result > after this i heated the edges slightly and smoothened the curves some more then i laid it on the real (stained) wood of my office ... and whell it kind of looked scary similair even the grain looked similair , could be awsome to try this on a woody build
crazyrichard Posted January 18, 2015 Author Posted January 18, 2015 real alu brackets .. now i wanted to make the nice wooden brackets .. but it was too much .. wood on wood on wood ...now aith the alu it just pops better and looks more real in a way shop is close to the beach
crazyrichard Posted January 18, 2015 Author Posted January 18, 2015 i had 2 of these boards one is on my ford surf woody .. i searched for the second set of decals .. found the nose peice and that was actually what i needed . the decal originally covers the whole board and then you dont see the wood effect .. so put the nose piece on and found a set of decals froma nother kit with a hanson decal and cut that out and put it on the rear .. makes it much more exiting
crazyrichard Posted January 18, 2015 Author Posted January 18, 2015 made some axle stands , medium sized , done them rough on purpose and pt dark metal coat on them , polished them and then gave the a very mild layer of surface rust .. just rough and not so much sticking out / popping
bobthehobbyguy Posted January 19, 2015 Posted January 19, 2015 That surfboard is outrageous. Your work never ceases to amaze me.
crazyrichard Posted January 20, 2015 Author Posted January 20, 2015 i still did not have a decent shop logo , i knew i wanted to use richrods speedshop (not garage) ... the surfboard gave me the idea to make a oval shoplogo and that worked great .. i designed the logo and gave the base (red) some grain to mimick flakes ,, played a bit with fake shine using light and dark ... glued it on a piece of plastic and with a spavcer put it on the edge of the office
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