Horse Drawn Hearse

Started by Cricket · 113 · 11 months ago
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    Cricket said 11 months, 2 weeks ago:

    @gblair that was me many many many years ago 🙂

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    George R Blair Jr said 11 months, 2 weeks ago:

    Hi Cricket (@bikequeen). I figured it was. Looks like it was a fun party.

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    John vd Biggelaar said 11 months, 2 weeks ago:

    That looks really scary, Cricket @bikequeen
    Goes together perfect with the hearse, if it would fit 🙂

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    John Truby said 11 months, 2 weeks ago:

    Cricket, you're doing some mighty fine work building this hearse. I'm sure it will look awesome when you're done. @bikequeen

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    Cricket said 11 months, 1 week ago:

    @gblair thanks George it was fun! I won 100 bucks for that costume 🙂

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    Cricket said 11 months, 1 week ago:

    @johnb Thank you John! LOL. It was a fun night

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    Cricket said 11 months, 1 week ago:

    @jdtuby Thank you John….hopefully I can complete it today 🙂

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    Cricket said 11 months, 1 week ago:

    And speaking of great hearses, who can forget the famous Boothill Express 🙂

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    Spiros Pendedekas said 11 months, 1 week ago:

    This looks weirdly awesome, my friend @bikequeen!

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    George Williams said 11 months, 1 week ago:

    Really looking forward to seeing the end result, Cricket @bikequeen.

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    John vd Biggelaar said 11 months, 1 week ago:

    Not sure if that can still be called a Hot Rod, Cricket @bikequeen

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    Cricket said 11 months, 1 week ago:

    @jagmkx @eb801 @j-healy @faraomike @pb_legend @airbum @ssgt @fiveten @anthonyricco @gblair @chinesegeorge @johnb @brithebuilder @coondog @billkoppos @atjoe @impisi @dion-dunn @chrisballard @jdtruby @clipper @de4ever

    Well, the hearse is done but I need to set up to do some photos of it. Meanwhile here are some of yesterday’s progress shots.

    I did I the coach lights and went to fish out the lenses for it was disappointed to realize they had to be shaped. I tried holding them with my fingers to shape them but that didn't work for so I dug out this neat tool I( made way way back 😉

    Then I used the 4 grit polishing stick and it came out pretty good

    The front lens was way to think and looked ridiculous so I cut a circle out of clear acetate (spare window stock) and that looked better

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    I also scored the roof but when I painted it i realized the scoring was messed up so I took a tiny brush and painted the really bad spots, it worked pretty well

    … more photos tomorrow sorry of it looks haphazard…I’m toast 🙂

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    John W Summerford said 11 months, 1 week ago:

    Nice work on the lamp. Your thumbnail looks good too.

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    George R Blair Jr said 11 months, 1 week ago:

    I think doing the scoring would have driven me crazy, Cricket (@bikequeen). The lamp looks really nice.

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    George Williams said 11 months, 1 week ago:

    Good save on the lamp lens, Cricket @bikequeen. Not sure about the photo set up, how are you going to do that?