What's the oddest thing you've painted for money?

[colourshift]

We have what some of you gents would know as "the windsor ballet" across the Detroit river... strip clubs galore for men, one place for women... I used to do custom 'boxes' for the dancers there at the women's establishment(they 'dance' in front of the client on a 2'x2'x12" high plywood box).

[Whit]

Back in tha 50's,,, used to paint sunglasses !!!
We'd buy a card (13),,, paint flyin eyeballs,,,
other stuff on'm an sell to schoolmates !!!
Card of glasses for $12,,, sell at $5 a pair !!!
This was highschool spending money:partyalone:
Personally I took'm off as soon as I could,,,
gave me a headache,,, but it was cool back then !!!
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forgot,,, used to paint the leather MC jackets as well
back then,,, had to have one to be cool !!! Took mine
to an upholstery shop,, had snaps put on tha back,,,
had leather panels to change out in case of emergencies
(for a change of identity purposes,,, ya know !!!)

[gphood]

A milk churn with scenes from the film Braveheart on it...

[colourshift]

Back in tha 50's,,, used to paint sunglasses !!!
We'd buy a card (13),,, paint flyin eyeballs,,,
other stuff on'm an sell to schoolmates !!!
Card of glasses for $12,,, sell at $5 a pair !!!
This was highschool spending money:partyalone:
Personally I took'm off as soon as I could,,,
gave me a headache,,, but it was cool back then !!!
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forgot,,, used to paint the leather MC jackets as well
back then,,, had to have one to be cool !!! Took mine
to an upholstery shop,, had snaps put on tha back,,,
had leather panels to change out in case of emergencies
(for a change of identity purposes,,, ya know !!!)


I did jackets a coupla times...only one for money. Forgot about that. But sunglasses...that's different. musta drove you nuts!

[Whit]

All enamels,,, brush,,, on everything back then,,
needless to say,,, my eyes were in better shape then,,,
all that stuff was extremely small,, ie,, veins in eyeballs,,,
still gave me a headache wearing them,,, but it was cool !!!
Roth was in all tha hotrod mags then,,, and my name was Fink,,,
so it was an automatic name recognition thing !!! You might
say my career was founded by "Big Daddy Roth" !!!
And I Really Appreciated his help,,, even met him once :partyalone:

[gphood]

Back in tha 50's,,, used to paint sunglasses !!!
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forgot,,, used to paint the leather MC jackets as well
back then,,, had to have one to be cool !!! Took mine
to an upholstery shop,, had snaps put on tha back,,,
had leather panels to change out in case of emergencies
(for a change of identity purposes,,, ya know !!!)

Heh... leather jackets was how I got started. I still do quite a few. I remember I painted a waistcoat for a guy near where I lived in Sussex who was a member of a bike club - just an owner's club, not a backpatch club or anything like that. He wanted it to look like a backpatch though, with the name of his club on the top rocker and East Sussex on the bottom. I did warn him he might be asking for unwanted attention but he wouldn't hear of it. He went to a big bike bash on Brighton sea front where, sure enough, a couple of members of the local chapter of a particular patch club made their opinions known to him and tried to cut the bottom rocker off with blades!!

Luckily he managed to extracate himself from the situation with nothing hurt but his pride and came to me a week later asking if I could paint something new over his waistcoat - paying me again for the priviledge :devil2:

[jason prouty]

the tank lookin thing is actually a PC case (for MSI towers) me and a friend developed and still own the patent on. I'm re-painting mine right now for a show. www.thinktankpc.com we got in popular science magazine, PC magazine, and ton of european mags, we've only sold a few, theyr pretty spendy

the casket was done just for fun, I had it for a few years and sold it right after I heard some say "hey there's the casket kid", sold it on ebay (made good proffit) Hell's kitchen in los angeles bought it and turned it into a salad bar

[colourshift]

the tank lookin thing is actually a PC case (for MSI towers) me and a friend developed and still own the patent on. I'm re-painting mine right now for a show. www.thinktankpc.com we got in popular science magazine, PC magazine, and ton of european mags, we've only sold a few, theyr pretty spendy

the casket was done just for fun, I had it for a few years and sold it right after I heard some say "hey there's the casket kid", sold it on ebay (made good proffit) Hell's kitchen in los angeles bought it and turned it into a salad bar

Niiiiiice fade!! Yup, don't particularly want to be known for caskets...or toilet seats for that matter.

[blinddog 99]

Prouty, you're a sick puppy, can't top the casket, no way!

[jason prouty]

that thing got quite the wow factor, but hey if you want to get noticed got to step out of the box right.....

Almost lost a bet and had to sleep a whole night in it, it would of been fine, it wasn't used!!! hehehehehehehe

[corey]

I painted a staple gun for a insulator.

[colourshift]

stapler...lol, gotta love that.
oddest shape I've ever done was a coupla bowling pins for trophies, they were really beat up, cracked, scarred... bondo 101 and a lot of coats of primer. Ended up doing metal leaf flames, airbrushed background, and the worlds worst pinstriping job.

So, you pro's out there... good to be diverse? or is one shooting one's self in the foot with the rep of painting just about anything.

[blinddog 99]

I have never airbrushed anything odd except lampshades for a friend. So, I am loading some Kahlua into my cleanest Vl and giving it a whirl. Substrate is very hard ice cream, from the deep freeze, but still gotta work pretty fast. The Kahula is a bit thick, so I used a dash of vodka as a reducer, but it just went gummy....... now trying the Starbucks coffee liqueur and it seems to work with the vodka reducer quite well. When I sober up, I will try to post pics, LOL.....

[colourshift]

I have never airbrushed anything odd except lampshades for a friend. So, I am loading some Kahlua into my cleanest Vl and giving it a whirl. Substrate is very hard ice cream, from the deep freeze, but still gotta work pretty fast. The Kahula is a bit thick, so I used a dash of vodka as a reducer, but it just went gummy....... now trying the Starbucks coffee liqueur and it seems to work with the vodka reducer quite well. When I sober up, I will try to post pics, LOL.....

Thankyou Dog....ROFLMAO.

[corey]

now thats funny

[jason prouty]

how was the dog feelin this mornin?

[blinddog 99]

Oh just fine Jason, I was up & perky at 5. I was just kidding last night, I did have a couple shots of Starbucks before bed, but nothing scary, LOL....

[sharonsstudio]

I really haven't painted on anything strange just lampshades, beermugs, helmets, slate, jackets, camper, nothing weird, I guess I'll have to come up with something HMMMM.

[blinddog 99]

Sharon, we should come up with a weird airbrush substrate contest, might be fun. I could come up with some prizes. Airbrush something common and oddball, like......?

[colourshift]

Bowling pins... I did two of those once, for trophies for the office bowling league. Not that weird of a substrate.
Ya got me thinkin Dog....

[blinddog 99]

Actually bowling pins are now a Kustom Kulture icon for paint. Look at Craig Fraser's site, or any of that bunch, or Canadian Rat Fink (Ron Gibbs). They all paint bowling pins. I've been wanting to try some, just haven't gotten to it yet. Kind of a cool shape to decorate with paint.....

[Whit]

This was a shower curtain a customer wanted,,,
her grown children done from pics taken at
all about the same age and put together on one
setting for her guest bathroom !!! I'm thinkin
for when the lil tykes come for a visit !!!:partyalone:
All createx,,, then sprayed with scocthguard !!!

[A.P.W.]

this was not for money just to try it, deer skull. for money the oddest thing is fire exstinguishers, which are getting pretty popular around here, this is the fifth one now.

[brian_air1]

besides playstation controlers xbox consoles the only different thing was a Frisbie. i was at a swim clubs family day messing around and some guy asked me to paint a skull on his kids frisbie, i didnt think the paint would hold up becuase of the frisbies flexiblity but it did go figure

[colourshift]

Actually bowling pins are now a Kustom Kulture icon for paint. Look at Craig Fraser's site, or any of that bunch, or Canadian Rat Fink (Ron Gibbs). They all paint bowling pins. I've been wanting to try some, just haven't gotten to it yet. Kind of a cool shape to decorate with paint.....


Yeah Dog, I know.... Coasts got em, they're featured in their Tiki lounge. I saw some at a getaway years ago, and thought...yeah, cool trophy. But it was odd...for me. Of course, mine weren't in pristine condition....I got a lesson in body filler, and scratch filling primer. gak.

[Whit]

This thread brought back some strange memories lately !!!
I do remember once (60's) I tried my hand body painting !!!
Devised a concoction of liquid latex mixed with flouresent
tempera colors for a flexable body paint after inquiries from
a local exotic club (they were called exotic dancers then),,,
did one for a lady that began her act emerging from a
large basket (like a snake charmer) hand/arm first with
the hand in a position of a snakes head and writhing to
the music as she progressed out of the basket,, all under
black light,, and looked great,, well,,, I enjoyed it anyway !!!
The downside was the latex had a tendency to stick to
itself if it touched other latex on the body !!!
Worked Great for awhile,, but like I say,,,
I Enjoyed It,,, very dramatic in presentation !!!:partyalone:
Was married at the time,,, took my wife to see my great
accomplishment,,, that was that,,, career ended,,, and
I always felt I could've done great things in that field !!!
Well,, I've still got memories,,, so much for that !!!
No pics tho,,,
(probably would've lost them in the divorse anyway !!):music-smiley-019:

[Saint]

Too funny, Whit!

Quite a past you have:cheers:

Let's see, I've painted lots of 'different' surfaces..........
I did this competition rifle a five or so years back....

[colourshift]

hey, that kinda looks like Cacy with more hair...

[saintperez]

Pair of Bongo drums and and some Valve covers with an indian pattern all the way around, never again.

[jason prouty]

painted this phone 7 years ago for my dad with urethanes, took this pic a month ago, held up well, i don't think he ever dropped it

[egneg]

One of those car antenna ornaments.

[colourshift]

Now that's weird Eg...

[blinddog 99]

LOL, Egneg, that is weird, but freakin funny,

Jason, that's a helluva good lookin' phone, wow!

[klingdesigns]

A piggy bank to look like chester cheetah :)http://www.klingdesigns.com/CeramicPigBank.JPG

[PHLASH]

She came to my place, ask me to paint her leg.
"listen lady i dont do tattoos, im a airbrusher"
...that's when she TOOK IT OFF! (http://www.thaphlash.com/popim/samurai.htm) :eyepopping:

[seadog]

that's one nice leg :D

[airarts]

Some of you may guess what this is. We did them for a company here in town.

[jason prouty]

uuuuuh, it's a fancy vase, wink wink, nod nod:wink2:

[colourshift]

Yeah... vases...that's what Tommy Chong got put away for....vases.

[colourshift]

This isn't a contest...but omg...PHLASH, the leg wins.
Hey, PHLASH, nice lil write up there a few weeks ago about you on airbrushtour.com

[HotAir]

The most Bizzare thing I've painted was a toilet seat w/flowers around the seat & Congrats 2005 on the lid... This was for a high school grad that was going to wear around his neck like an LEI... It was sooo popular people came back for more... Aloha -HotAir-

[colourshift]

Reminds me of an insane (delightfully so) art teacher I had at Rochester Adams High School, in Rochester Mi.... Mr. Spitzer...he had these whacky 'hall passes' he'd give out... a toilet seat...teddy bear (big un)....I can't remember the others....

[HotAir]

I guess you weren't gonna go too far w/that hall pass!!! -HotAir-

[Stephen Casey]

I shouldn't but have forced speech...

Imagine if you brought him back the toilet seat airbrushed with flames and told him "Man that chili was too hot."

[Pinup Artist]

The funniest thing I ever painted....part 1.....There was a dancer in the local Brass Pole Ballet that was entered in the Miss Nude Something or other contest out west. Every night of the contest had a different theme and Wednesday night was paint night. The rest of the "ladies" came out did their solos and covered up in paint. Her idea involved me painting a pair of jeans on her and a white halter stop with spaghetti straps in between the twins and then she was going to step into a kiddie pool and wash the paint off. That is the first time I painted something knowing it was going to be destroyed, and the best part of all..... she paid cash and it wasn't in coins either! And yes I have photos to prove it.

[Pinup Artist]

The funniest thing I ever painted Part 2...I painted a Vietnam vets motorcycle battery covers with a spider lady borrowed from Boris Vallejo. As the face was about 1/2" tall I had trouble making it look right. I repainted it twice before finally tossing the photo reference and making up a face. When I dropped it off he and his wife both looked stunned. I thought they didn't like the painting. He called his son and got him to run into the house to bring out a calender. He showed me the photo from the calender of a friend of their family who was a ringer for the girl I painted on his bike nude. Now thats funny and ironic!

[peter loran]

funniest thing i painted on.two other artist an my self had a store in rochester ny.on lake avenue...down the road from charrlot beach lake ontario.we always got the strange kind of customers.this guy stagers in to the shop.beer in one hand cigarette hanging stuck to his bottom lip.flip flops an a black speedo on.he reminds me of ron wood from the rolling stones.or may be keith richards.more like keith richards.he asks can you "buuuurp"paint speedo material?every one just was speechless.me thinks i need every dollor bill that comes in.yeah..i can.
i can paint on your speedo for 50 bucks.thinking he just drunk.ill humor him an he will leave.he says thanks an staggers out.we all laff our asses off.then he comes back in with a towel on an puts his speedo on the counter.we were rolling on the floor.the other two guys looked at me an were laffing even more cause i said i would do it.i told the guy i ment a clean speedo.he said how much for this.i says 100 bucks.thinking he would be shocked at the price an leave.long story short,i got 100 bucks to paint a rainbow on a dirty speedo for a keith richard look a like.

[Frog]

Not airbrush but still a good story.
I was in the Royal Navy and we had been at sea for months, I was on duty in the engine room and got bored. I took the covers off a couple of pressure gauges and decorated them like fish bowls(felt pens) they looked real pretty. Unfortunatly the duty officers did not, I lost shoreleave for a month and had my wages cut. No sense of humour huh.

Michael

[Lilred_000]

So far the strangest thing I have ever painted on are toilet seats..

[rembrad]

i work in the film industry here in toronto as a scenic artist, often as the "on set painter", performing last minute touch ups and repairs between takes. gotta be prepared for just about any thing you could never imagine on your own: in the movie 'tommy boy'w/ chris farley, i had to paint a holstein milk cow to change its spots to match a fiberglass cow at around 2 a.m.in a cow pasture. she wasn't too impressed with affair. on another film i had to paint the hind end of a white tail deer-too bright for the night shot. used colored hair spray- the deer, name of angie, kept licking it off, so it was a chore to touch up for the several takes they needed. on 'blues brothers 2000', i had to paint aretha franklin's shoes while she and the camera waited, cause she wanted them to match her backup singer's gucci two tone shoes! i could go on, we're asked to create stuff only a hollywood budget could afford, but i'd rather be painting motorcycles in my own shop.......
"i'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy."-tom waits

[rembrad]

i work in the film industry here in toronto as a scenic artist, often as the "on set painter", performing last minute touch ups and repairs between takes. gotta be prepared for just about any thing you could never imagine on your own: in the movie 'tommy boy'w/ chris farley, i had to paint a holstein milk cow to change its spots to match a fiberglass cow at around 2 a.m.in a cow pasture. she wasn't too impressed with affair. on another film i had to paint the hind end of a white tail deer-too bright for the night shot. used colored hair spray- the deer, name of angie, kept licking it off, so it was a chore to touch up for the several takes they needed. on 'blues brothers 2000', i had to paint aretha franklin's shoes while she and the camera waited, cause she wanted them to match her backup singer's gucci two tone shoes! i could go on, we're asked to create stuff only a hollywood budget could afford, but i'd rather be painting motorcycles in my own shop.......

[colourshift]

Actually rembrad, that sounds like fun!

[AreJay]

I got a call one day asking if I could paint a "bra". Being a typical guy the first thing that came to mind was "boobies!" :boobies: I thought it was a strange request but I said "sure". A half hour later a beautiful new sports car pulls up and a Playboy centerfold gets out, legs all the way up to her neck, VERY nicely endowed... you get the picture. She walks in and tells me she had called about me painting a bra. OMG, I almost fainted dead on the spot. It took every bit of my constraint to keep from doing a happy dance right there. I totally faked being professional and played it on. She then asked if I could paint it with it on or she would need to take it off. I quickly... no, I immediately told her "It would be much better to do it with it on!" Then I asked her what she wanted on her bra. She turned to the door and said "Come on out and I'll show you" Puzzled, I followed her out and she pointed to this black vinyl protective cover on the front of her car. "I'd like my name painted on it." It didn't take long to see my dreams of feeling her warm, soft... ahem! (back to the story) go down in flames. I was in depression the rest of the week over that. :cutheadoff:

[ABD]

Hahaha..AreJay...Shhaaweeet!....Twas a great story..Thanks for that!.haha!

[XZOTIC INK]

whit,,the kid next to me on the streets selling paints sunglasses,,,HE MAKES MONEY FROM THEM,,now i know where he got it from,,,,jason whats up with that casket,,going in stlye..lol

BY THE WAY THOSE THINGS EVERYONE POSTED LOOK AWESOME,,I HAVE ONE AT HOME ILL POST,,,cant tell ya yet tho:juggle:

[Big Dutch]

Wow, you all have painted some weird stuff! I did paint a logo on a home built airplane last year but I don't have an image of that yet. I do have an image of a toilet seat I did in '97 (I think).

[pantaou]

I painted a wrist support to a guy who is bowling,
and i painted my vaccum cleaner,

[Full Blast]

those are awesome! :rotflmao:

[REDNECK AIR]

dose ABing taning count??

[airarts]

Well since I am now in recovery, and this was a long time ago, I will post the front of this one

[REDNECK AIR]

aaa so is that a flower vaz???
wink wink LOL:laughing_rolling:

[Memas]

Well since I am now in recovery, and this was a long time ago, I will post the front of this one

light 'er up!!!!!!! I mean the flower!!!:flame:=:sleeping-smiley-009

[AreJay]

Well since I am now in recovery, and this was a long time ago, I will post the front of this one

Can't we all just get a bong?

[Memas]

I thought we did get a bong pretty well here, don't we???:rotflmao:

[PAULYBOY]

A buddy of mine had me do a pop up greeting card years ago (20)?. When the card was opened, up poppped a penis and a pair. Sure was a large card!!! Needless to say, it wasn't modelled after mine, I failed Algebra!!!

[corey]

A stapler

[elljane]

I once painted a man's prosthetic leg. He was a long time customer of mine who lost a leg in a bike accident. Came to me after it healed and wanted a very realistic tiger face on fabric which would be incorporated into the stuff used to build his new leg. He came back to show me and let me take pictures several months later. It was very cool; looked like a high quality tattoo all over his lower leg.
I also painted boobs on a flesh colored body stocking while the woman was wearing it.
Hmm. what else? Oh, yeah. Crematory urns for pet's ashes.

[airartista]

I don't have a picture, but I did tree fungus. It was shelf tree fungus that kinda fanned out and it had some kinda sentimental value from a hike or somethin'...they put it on the fireplace mantel I think.

*Beeper cases in the 80s (pain in the ass)
*Spandex for some local wrestlers...ya needed someone to have it on while ya airbrushed them!! (it feels cold ya know!)
*Saw blades
*Rocks....
*did a portrait on a baseball (yikes) and I just said the Nicholson tie was smallest...come to think of it, the baseball was and a curved surface! That was so horrendous to work on I think I blocked it from memory! What was I thinking. Well, they liked it any way.
*Underwear of course...
*drum heads...
the casket is pretty weird.
I just never say no.... I'm learning.

[Norm]

not so strange.. but very large.. tail section on a 727 airplane.. painted a waving American flag, and a whole series of flags on smaller corporate jets. The strange part was that they covered the flags when the airplanes travelled to countries that weren't considered 'friendlies'

[Jeroen - CDM]

Wierdest thing I ever painted was the :fingers: smiley on a scoot. 20 min. job & payed 60 euros (100$) Idoits! lol

[airartista]

Ya know... right now it isn't the weirdest thing i am painting... just the most unsettling feeling. A good friend of mine who I met by her being such a good client of portraits, is not fairing well and she wants me to do a sweatshirt to be buried in.... I just don't feel like starting it!! I have done portraits of recently deceased people and pets, but working on this when she is sick and stuff...AND knowing her so well is really making me feel sick. An honor, but just not a happy one. So this is feeling like the strangest thing to me personally!

[airartista]

sorry was trying to delete that last entry... this IS the funnier side of airbrushing AND I am not being paid... my bad!!!!!!!!! No relevance here!! : (

[quickdraw]

I have painted on a lot of odd stuff over the years like, roller skates, model trucks, custom painted a hot wheels bus for a guy one time for 500.00, but probably yhe two weirdest was a turtle I found at the lake( pin striped it and put my name on it and some said they saw it while they were fishing and called me up laughing thier butt off), and most recently I painted Japenese writing on some stones for a guy who does coy ponds. Charged shop rate of 70.00 ph and he was happy. Whatever it takes Eh! I enclosed pictures of rocks, the turtle however, is still at large.

[airartista]

that's so cool... pimp my turtle...a new Animal Planet show idea!:1071: I remember finding a land turtle when I was little with an address on it. And that was an ugly letterin' job! Your turtle has a sweet lid now! Like all those hermit crab custom shells!


...ya know I'll be lookin for a turtle.....

[Jeroen - CDM]

Haha, I wanted to body paint the dog one time, but my gal would'nt let me LOL

Problem was....I had to shave him first haha!

[Mad Momma Designs]

Wow, lots of great stuff in here! It's amazing what we will do to make a Buck!

Lets see, I have painted a fully detailed close up view of a woman's private part on an oversized shirt that said "P]$$y ruled the world!" (sorry, to anyone offended!)

I painted a nude bodystocking on a female customer to make it look like she was naked! At a kiosk in the middle of a mall in chattanooga!( she was going out on halloween as "Eve" (of Adam and Eve) Lots of on-lookers!

I have painted strippers for their shows.21131

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and most recently had to paint fingers with basketball jerseys as test samples for a production company that handled an ad campaign for a new pennsylvania lottery game. (didn't get the job though, and didn't get paid for the samples!... live and learn!)

[Sinontin]

i shaved my cat and spray painted it silver and let it loose at the mall when i was younger like 4 years ago

[Geronimo509]

Does painting gravel with a 3" brush and exterior grade house paint count?

Basic training we had to paint the gravel in the smoking area. There was about 60 guys and 15 or so brushes of various sizes, took us most of the day since we had to paint one side, lay them out on the company road to dry, then paint the other side.

[mob33]

a bronzed elk skull...strange to me, not for some I guess..

[airartista]

an amateur wrestler... IN his spandex he wanted painted! You want a large man to squirm.. blow some cold air across his tookus and bits and pieces! HAHAHA

also did natural stuff like tree fungus... rocks.... or underwear.... in the old days beeper cases.... people bring in anything. The company motto used to be "we airbrush almost anything" well... we had to change that!!LOL

[ezchezze]

I paint toasters all the time for practice and then sell them. I once airbrushed mudd on a truck so you couldn't tell if it was clean. I used flat clear I got from coast.

[Smi7th]

Got a call from a guy who wanted to know if I could paint on carbon fiber.Asked him what it was and he replied:prosthetic arms.
He was a telephone lineman and had grabbed a 7600 volt live wire burning both arms so badly they had to be amputated just below the elbow.He figured if people were going to stare at him why not give them something to look at.Guy's got more heart than a lot of people I know.
Did some pinstripe flames on them.When he asked how much I told him that I would get well compensated just for the story value.Here they are:

[TRICKPaint]

I didn't get paid for this, but before one of my hockey games I got into one of my friends equipment bag and painted a bunch of flowers and pink hearts on his jock ( yes rubber gloves are handy) I snuck it back in his bag before our game.

We're getting dressed in the locker room and al of the sudden you hear "dammit Vanhorn!" that whole room was rollin' when they saw jim sporting his fancy new rasin protector:)

[Whit]

Some Great Stuff Everbody,,,
that boat reminds me of a fish I painted a few years back,,,
hangs outside a crane outfit,, on an antique crane,, on the interstate,,,
size by the guys carrying it out of the shop,, about 12/14 ft !!!

[spyder_006]

i made a pinata hor my 11yo halloween party...it was plain wrapping a baloon w/ newspaper strips and flour+water...then a lil air brushing...ohh and it wasnt a typical pinata...this one fought back.....it has 3' long foam pipe insulation sleeves and a dryer hose spine....it was hung bu a pully and as the kids hit it i was able to pull it up and away, then drop it back on them...as they hit it...it spun around and the foam sleeves hit them back! it was a blast.....29144

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[Skids]

Cool all round spyder!!

[sweet loretta]

Old drunk guy at a blues show.

[533Clive]

Whit, I'm sure I've seen that Fish!!! Was over in Fort Worth 'flying' the Bell simulator, and took a drive out/explore!! Would it be anywhere near there??

[Rupert]

The strangest thing I've been asked to paint for money was a set of Russian matryoshka dolls... as daleks, the monsters from the BBC TV show Dr Who.
Four of them were the outer metal shell and the smallest one was the icky green alien that operates them.

I got a set of the dolls that were blank and had to hand draw the dalek details on, complete with 56 bobbles on each of the skirts. Having agreed to the request it wasn't too long before the attraction began to wear a bit thin, but they turned out ok in the end and the recipient was pleased which was the main thing.

Rupert
www.paintedleatherjackets.com

[AndyW]

Damn you must have been eady to "exterminate" by the end of that lot ha ha.............

[Rupert]

Here are some photos of the daleks... One of all five of them, one compete up close, and one sitting inside the other.

Cheers

Rupert

[bigjohnyeti]

A Hockey Stick !! charged him a token price of a bottle of Captain Morgan !

[Akarin]

Back in the late 80's at our t-shirt shop we carried men's briefs with the crotch cut out for women to wear as a tank top. And yes, we painted the heck out of these for spring break. When looking for a photo to show you guys I ran across a site that said someone actually filed a patent on this thing lol. http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6434751/description.html

[jct5509]

For me it was a clock and a refrigerator, both with naked ladies and old skool flames...