Post pictures of something you have made!

[Oregonhunter5]

@Oregonhunter5 That is a good looking family!

Thank you!

 

[CamoDeafie]

Custom TIE fighter made from the inaccurate MPC 1995 kit; flipped wings around, added a rear hull extension made from a pill bottle, panels, scratchbuilt guns and torpedo launchers as well as details, and gave it actual engine thrusters made from telescoped styrene tubing. Hand painted flat/semigloss black, not sure if I want to use Gunship Grey for the details/main coloring over black, am planning to use Light Grey for the viewport spoked frame.
The original model kit was missing the following items;
Thrusters
Chin guns
Y shaped sensor pieces on each side of front
Panel lines in wrong place compared to movie model

I also added some details from various cut up models, just for the greeblies that Star Wars is famous for

In Star Wars jargon...
Long Range TIE with hyperdrive and shield generators; 4 laser cannons on wings, two torpedo tubes on the chin (where chin guns normally should be), stealth black coating applied (might forego it and apply thinned gunship grey overall).

 

[Will_White]

Well-worn CBG and New Lo-Fi amplifier.

 

[Tomahawk67]

A long time coming. I did all of the metal fabrication on this 30 Ford Tudor Sedan and it just debuted at SEMA!

 

[cigars]

Brushed my dog. He was leaving tumbleweeds all over.
I was thinking that I could take the bag of fur down to the Portland Saturday market and sell it as hipster cashmere.

 

[DirectDrive]

Not made yet, but off to a good start...
(and not all made by me)

 

[edslhead]

A long time coming. I did all of the metal fabrication on this 30 Ford Tudor Sedan and it just debuted at SEMA!

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Fantastic!!

 

[Ramjet12]

Not made yet, but off to a good start...
(and not all made by me)
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I just drove by that today. It's on Andresen over by Les Schwab's.

 

[Tomahawk67]

Fantastic!!

Thanks! The bottom is just as good as the top!

 

[wired]

This is an exhaust setup Ive been working on for the last week or so. 3" mandrel bent tubing into an X pipe and around the center of my 4 link crossmember. Mufflers mounted ABOVE the rear end and out the back. Trying to free up some ground clearance . Dynomax super turbo mufflers. Sounds great . The 800 HP 540 was WAY too loud on the street with the old straight through mufflers that dumped in front of the rear tires. I had taken the car to a few shops before deciding to do it on my own and they had all looked at me like I was crazy and told me they couldnt do it.

 

[Tomahawk67]

A little Comet I built to get beat on.
363" SBF Hilborn injected alcoholic.

 

[Ownerus]

Not exactly off-topic since it's gun related but it's something I designed and made in my own shop. A .22 conversion kit for the 1911 that only replaces the barrel and the magazine. It uses the original .45 slide and spring. When installed, the only original parts not in the gun are, yup, the barrel and the magazine. It totally functions as original (except for recoil and cost) and locks open on the last shot (most of the time. .22 being not all that consistent). Anyway, an interesting project. I'd hoped to market it but just as I was finishing up the prototype, .22RF became real scarce and sorta took the wind out of my sails so on to other projects.

The barrel was cut from barstock and rifled.


I had the magazine flat laser cut to my drawing then made a bunch of forming tools to fold it up in my little press brake.


Then spot welded it with my Harbor Freight spot welder with custom electrodes I made.

Having proven a full-function .22 conversion could be done without making new aluminum slides etc. I had hoped to market the idea and be able to work on another of *too-many ideas*. No such luck so far

 

[Mark W.]

So I am currently working on the grill and the stuff around the grill on my Willys jeep project.

Finished up the Fog light mounting bar a couple weeks ago



I made all of it from scratch.

a couple of snaps of the Fresh air intake and radiator over flow bottle (which was actually made 20 years ago for a 66 Chevelle project I sold off to help afford the Willys work.





This photo shows the fresh air intake/box from the rear the oval black line just above the left side of the radiator is where the air duct will attach and lead to the air cleaner enclosure. If it all works out I will have a system setup so with a single pull of a cable control I close off the fresh air intake and open an air intake that forms around the #2 and #3 Header pipe where it exits the head to provide a warm air intake for cold starts and cold weather also to stop any water from splashing into the fresh air intake during water crossings



And a shot of the highly modified CJ5 frame and suspension that is going under the mostly scratch built CJ2A tub.



If you want to see more my project blog is on the CJ-2A page here

A little project update on Chug A Lug

 

[thorborg]

 

[uscsoldier]

 

[thorborg]

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That's a wonderful family get together place! Good Job

 

[loofa]

This pales in comparison to some of the amazing things seen in this thread, but here's my off-topic creation. Linkwitzlab LX521 speakers.

 

[Walter Sobchak]

I took a perfectly good-ish Volvo, and "made" it in to this lunacy:

Winch is an 8k Warn (functional), exhaust is straight pipe off turbo outlet (functional, and ridiculous), hood scoop is a California license plate off a WRX I owned in a past life (functional, ridiculous, and adds 20 h.p. since it came of an WRX)

 

[Heywood]

This pales in comparison to some of the amazing things seen in this thread, but here's my off-topic creation. Linkwitzlab LX521 speakers.

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That's cool. I just recently got bit by the audiophile bug.
I now have the space to enjoy good sound and am looking to upgrade my system in the near future.

 

[Heywood]

Thanks. I've been in/un-involved with the hobby for longer than I care to mention. Word from the wise: avoid the temptation to get sucked into the various forms of the lunatic fringe. The audio industry is quite unique that it's filled with many sharlitons that market products that serve no purpose other than separate the audiophile from their hard-earned cash. Be safe out there.

Wow. I'll take one of each.... thanks for the advice..