Taking the leap?

[Don Solo]

1: That helmet is great! where'd you get it? (more importantly... where can I get one too?)

2: With the guns mounted... how will you get in and out of the car? It looks like the door would knock them off when it opens.

[mirax80]

The helmet I actually got from a friend who did the "If you show up to this event, I'd give you a helmet" (since he already had like 3!) It's just a Don Post that I repainted myself with model paints from the local hobby store.

The guns? Yes - since they are temperary and magnetically mounted, I understand for parades I have to be shut into my car - or pull a Dukes of Hazzard! They are mainly for shows or slow moving parades - NO Road Traveling!!

[Don Solo]

lol... I can just picture Luke running across the tarmak and trying to jump into his x-wing like that :ROTFL:

[mirax80]

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Picked up my new vinal decals today!
Hopeing to start on them tomorrow (since it's already getting dark today)

And Katie, I'm a looser and don't have those magnets out yet! *cries* bad Ny - No cookie!

[Don Solo]

ooo... purdy vinyl! how much did those run you?

[mirax80]

I'm lucky. A friend of mine - her dad works for/ownes (not to sure which) a sign making company. I got all of that for $30. ;D He's like super wicked cool doing that all for me.

I did the RS logos... but I'm not liking how they turned out. My "solid colored" decals have a nice solid look to them. The "Multi Colored" decals are printed.... and you can see the DPI on them (wish is slighty annoying because I sent a hefty sized file so it wouldn't do that). So up close, they look kinda shotty. BUT!!! From about 6+ feet away, they don't look half bad. I was thinking about having just a limited run done, but when I picked them up the other day, I got a little lecture on "these were really kinda tricky because of all the color and I had to hand cut them....." So I felt kinda bad about that. All the lettering has to be hand done..... same went for my MNFF ones. Kinda pixily... and hand cut.

I don't know if I want to do just a very exclusive limited run of the RS ones... maybe I can get him to do them and I would agree to cut them out by hand and take any responsibility of screwing them up. Somthing to look into.... I will try to get a good looking close up pix of them to show.


Anyways, worked for about 6 hours yesterday in the cold pulling off my hood piece and my Imp kills. Got new hood piece put on (and for some reason had problems, and it doesn't look as good as the original ) Got the RS ones on, my new MNFF on my back window, my Rebel Legion, and ONE side of the new Imp kills. I kinda forgot an exacto knife, so I didn't want to put 2nd side on... and NOT have access to my gas tank. Totally forgot to bring along my windshield decal! :headhit: So I'll try to get that on today along w/the 2nd Imp side (after the Packer vs. Vikings game ) Go Pack!!

Will post pix with progress soon!

[mirax80]

Well, after watching the sad end to the game.... I got back to work.


Well - good & bad news.

Got the guns finished and all put togehter minus the 1/2 moon part I'm waiting to get back from a friend.

New trunk lettering!
The Guns
Driver Side
Passanger Side
Driver Kills
Passanger Kills
Road Squad Logo
Close up
MNFF - pixily
Rebel Legion Close

Haven't gotten the lettering on the windshield yet... that gets installed on Tuesday. And I screwed up a few of the Imps... so I hope no one notices that the 2 sides arn't even. But my problem is this. The front half of the gun is already too heavy that the front part starts slipping down the side of the car. In the pix I have them sitting there pretty good... but once I start moving, they are going to totally slip off.

And I've got less than 5 days to correct this... and I only have a dremel, a heat gun, and clear tape in my posession.

[mirax80]

Ok, sorry I haven't been here in a while, trying to get stuff ready for the parade & gearing up for the Holiday season at work has kept me SUPER BUSY! (blah) :KHAN!:

Anyways, Got all my new decals on w/out too many problems. Unfortunately, the guns didn't work. I'll keep working on them to get them to work tho. For some reason when I dry ran them (before glueing together) they seemed to hold just fine - no problems. But after I glued them, they got super front heavy. And after adding the 1/2 moons, oh boy. I got some great ideas, unfortunately, they all came on Thursday night (before an all day shift on Friday) before the parade. I had no time.

I already posted pics of my decals save for the front. Well, here's what she looks like now:




I might be getting a smaller (and slighty darker to match my stripes) hood piece soon. I'm not happy with how this one went on. But of course, most everything is probably going to be put on hold until after christmas.

Stupid retail job.


Anyways... happy flying everyone!

[iceman]

The magnets are a great idea, but on a vertical surface they just can't hold much weight, especially with the vibration from movement.

How about suction cups ? the big ones that have the built-pumps & release vents, like the autobody guys use for pulling dents, or glassworkers use for moving large sheets of glass -

or something like these -

anver.com/document/vacuum%20handcups/aluminumhandgrp.htm

just a thought....