Video Game Controller
That's right. This, is a video game controller. I believe it is generically referred to as "pop 'n' music" games. A friend of the person I did the Mame cabinet for (see below) got a hold of me wanting to get his ransai video game controller painted. Obviously, I was a little confused at first, but as is usually the case, Decided to check it out. A deal was made, and the 'open canvas' was handed to me. It was all white to begin with, and the owner said to do whatever I wanted, as long as I put the 'ransai' logo back on. I decided to incorporate the entire design around the ransai 'explosion' logo (seen in first pic). Well, Alot of masking, alot of gold flakes ,4 kandy's faded into each other, some more flakes etc etc, This is what came out. Too bad it lives indoors. This paint screams in the sun, which I tried to show in the second and third pictures taken before it was assembled. The last one shows the tag.
Jack Stands
The definition of 'odds and ends' that I paint sometimes. This was sent as a gift to the Falcon Boyz of Oakland California. They were kind enough to send me a documentary on DVD that I requested, and did not charge me for it. During the documentary (Ghetto Fabulous), I noticed the guys in the club doing alot of work on their cars without the safety of Jack Stands. But regular jack stands wouldn't cut it on cars like these, with Kandy paint, and gold spoke rims. So I painted them using leftover gold flake and kandy from the game controller above, and then painted the 'stems' black with House of Kolors' Ice Blue Pearl. Nicest looking jack stands I have ever seen!
Golf Cart
This was done for a person who I had done paintwork for in the past on a business level, but this was something that was his personal ride. He picked House of Kolors Ultra Orange Pearl, But gave me the OK to play with it. I did just that, spraying the ultra orange first, followed by a coat of silver micro sequins, then two coats of H.O.K. Pagan Gold Kandy, and a light coat of H.O.K. rainbo ultra-mini-flake. Came out very sext, proving once again why Pagan Gold Kandy is one of my favorite products. It can do so much to so many colors. This is a typical case of photos doing no justice, but the first picture shows some of the brassy sparkle.
Cell Phone
4/05 This is the phone of a co-workers daughter. It was done in all of 20 minutes, but came out perfect in hand mixed princess pink with sparkles. Not too shabby for an 8 year old girls phone.
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7/04
Ok,
So I'm a painter, and often can't leave well enough alone. I bought a
skateboard, and after a few weeks, Decided to paint it. This is its thrid design
in the last 4 months or so, but I didnt get pics of the first versions. This
isnt the best pic either, but it gets the point across. Oh, and each paint job
WAS stripped to bare wood before painting again!
My Other Skateboard
9/04. After building my first skateboard above, and getting my rookie skating jitters out on it, I decided to build a whole new one using the best of everything. I bought a new Mini-Logo blank deck and laid this awesome triple-fade kandy marblized paint job on it. I then built it and it was the most beautiful board ever built. In fact, it was so nice, I couldn't bring myself to dirty the clear wheels or the perfect grip tape. It was on display for awhile, then Ebay, and then sold to a friend to give to his son for Christmas. I sold it for what I had in parts alone, the paint job ended up being a freebie. I still have the first board. The first picture shows my tag.
Garfield Statue
This was sent to me via Jacks Camera in Muncie,
IN. It was done as part o the Jim Davis 25th anniversary celebration in Jim
Davis' home town. 20of these were done, signed by Jim, and were on display for
the celebration. It was an open canvas, but I was on very limited time, so
Kandy's and such were out of the question.
The color sequence was black epoxy, blue pearl basecoat, a light coat of silver micro sequins, 2 light coats of blue micro sequins, then three coats of Ice-blue pearl, and then 2 coats of polyurethane house of kolors UFC35
clear coat. I wish it could have been better, more vibrant and custom, but time
allotment and the risk of making it look gay had me worried. In the sun, this
was gorgeous. After paint, I put chrome vinyl inserts in his eyes and
ears.
This was an old , nasty jet ski. My boss got
it, and had SRS rebuild the motor. Of course, he pays me to be there, so the logical thing
was to have me paint it. It was covered in sheets of neon decals and Bart Simpson stuff
like, "catch a wave, dude".I was told to do something "fun", but no
flames and no scallops. Soooo I went with the splash look. It didn't look great, but was
surely shiny. Bright white, with red claret and cranberry fade down the top arm. Then took
our race-car blues and faded them together , getting lighter at the tops of the drops.
Then, took my limited airbrush skills and put "glares" on the edges of the
drops. The shop guys made fun of it....still do, but it's better than it was and it was
FREE!!!
Video Game Cabinet
This was originally a Joust machine, which was then converted to a Double Dragon machine. My friend converted it then to a M.A.M.E cabinet (thousands of games run via a computer). His site is located here: XXXXXXXXXXX. I was brought in to paint it up. I actually did full-on body work to this, pulled some T moulding off, and filled the channel and primed it a few times to make it nice. Made a hinged back door, and some other goodies, and made up a mount for the new control sticks etc. I eventually sanded the whole cabinet smooth, sealed it black, based it in black, and then used about 10 different colors, 4 different Kandy's, and silver micro sequin flakes to give it a 'space' effect.
Pit Cart
Ah yes, The perks that come with painting in Racing. This is a Golf cart with major mods, making it a rolling garage. It was huge, extremely difficult, very time consuming, and used multiple gallons of paint. It was not fun at all, But the results were pretty hot.
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