Re: My Flaming MailBox
 

Wow, looks sweet! Curious to know how/what tecnique you used to paint the wood? It looks real!

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very nice, the wood is ------- awesome, but the flames are a little plain.

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You will need a black base to start with. Spray that first and let dry. For the wood you need a marbleizer. Spray it on and let sit for 10 sec then take a sheet of plastic and wad it up loosely. Then drag it over the marbleizer. Do this till you get what you want. You can put knots in it by making a smaller wad and twisting the plastic. then take an old paint brush. Like you would paint a house with but with missing bristles. and detail the grain more around the knot so it looks like the grain is going around the knot. After you have what you want you need to let dry very good. the reason is that if you put the candy over the marbleizer too soon it will lift on you. So the next step is to put only orange candy over it in very very light coats. I had about 13-14 coats. It started to look brown. You could use rootbeer which is even better but all we got to use is orange. then you put intercoat clear and you are ready to flame or do whatever.
If you go to the hobby store they sell cheap bottle of candy. I don't know about the marbleizer but I think that you could use a slow drying silver and get the same effect.

Re: My Flaming MailBox
 

quality work

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I'd be proud to play mailbox baseball with that one, sir!

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Fork It was really hard to get the tape to turn in such a small area in the first place. Show me up.

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Joseph Davis that is the reason I gave it to my parents to put INSIDE their house. It took only about 6 days to build and paint.

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Yeah, I know, which is why I had to say it.

But, you know it's quality work if you post up to HMT, home of hater-ade, and get a full page of responses before anyone thinks to pipe up with a mailbox baseball comment. Kudos!

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hey what campus did you go to?....i just graduated in december from wyotech also......i took chassis fab and high preformance engines... i got to vote for a mailbox when i was still in school....i voted for the "cleanest" one.... it was a whiteish color with the flat yellow jaggedness going back to the rear of it......i woulda voted for yours though if it was there

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yeah thats when I graduted. But I didn't know that they had contest. I wish I would have known. Just to let you know if the pinstrip is jagged it usually means that they couldn't do it the right way.