Four days without an update?!?!
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-Gary
I'm dyin here. This is one of the best threads in a long time.
-Gary
The $350 Mascot
- Thread starter Laffo
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Laffo
Sr Member
Sorry Guys,
Real Life and stuff.
You have to remember I run a Drive-In Movie Theatre that also has a Flea Market on the weekends, so Friday, Saturday and Sunday are my busiest days. Saturday and Sunday I work doubles.
I was also getting ready for my Halloween 2 shoot and I've quit again.
Here's the tally for those playing along at home:
Fired twice
Quit 3 times
I have yet to pick up a brush or do a Makeup and I've left the production 5 times.
It's a new record.
I'm also trying to get a new Corndog Truck, for the Mascot to usher in, so I'm dealing with the Banks and stuff.
Here's some shots of Pallookaville Two:
It was at the Airport until TSA made him move it - hence the "Frequent Fryer" moniker. If the guy selling it wasn't such a douchebag I'd think it was funny. I'm about to steal this Rig from him though.
Cool thing - the whole thing runs on Propane - Truck, Fryers, Griddle - everything.
As far as the updates go, cool yer damn jets. I'm the one that has a deadline.
Laffo.
Real Life and stuff.
You have to remember I run a Drive-In Movie Theatre that also has a Flea Market on the weekends, so Friday, Saturday and Sunday are my busiest days. Saturday and Sunday I work doubles.
I was also getting ready for my Halloween 2 shoot and I've quit again.
Here's the tally for those playing along at home:
Fired twice
Quit 3 times
I have yet to pick up a brush or do a Makeup and I've left the production 5 times.
It's a new record.
I'm also trying to get a new Corndog Truck, for the Mascot to usher in, so I'm dealing with the Banks and stuff.
Here's some shots of Pallookaville Two:
It was at the Airport until TSA made him move it - hence the "Frequent Fryer" moniker. If the guy selling it wasn't such a douchebag I'd think it was funny. I'm about to steal this Rig from him though.
Cool thing - the whole thing runs on Propane - Truck, Fryers, Griddle - everything.
As far as the updates go, cool yer damn jets. I'm the one that has a deadline.
Laffo.
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Nothing but love for ya. I've got a Back to the Future Delorean that I've been working on for nearly 4 years now. I TOTALLY get how real life can slow a project down.
-Gary
droid wrangler
New Member
Seriously cool. You should write childrens books.:lol
Laffo
Sr Member
I have.
Here's one. I have 2 other completed ones, and probably 3 more written. They all are Carnival / Circus based, and just right for children.
http://unclelaffo.blogspot.com/search/label/A Small Book for Big Children
There's other stuff on there too. I need to work on it.
Laffo.
Here's one. I have 2 other completed ones, and probably 3 more written. They all are Carnival / Circus based, and just right for children.
http://unclelaffo.blogspot.com/search/label/A Small Book for Big Children
There's other stuff on there too. I need to work on it.
Laffo.
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weaselflinger
Sr Member
I couldn't read "Leave the Porchlight On" without hearing it sung by Tom Waits in my head...Well done.
Laffo
Sr Member
Okay folks here's some progress.
There is progress on the Mascot front, but none on the Truck front.
I am sick of talking to Banks.
I loaned a sum of cash to some friends and the exact amount I loaned them turns out would buy the Truck and do any refit I'd need to do.
As usual, impeccable timing on my part. Like when I borrowed my Granddad's Cadillac to go to my Senior Prom and the Transmission fell out in the Highway. My Dad's Car that he loaned me to get to the damn horrible dance was t-boned as the Valet brought it to us after Dinner, and Car #3 was stolen while we were in the Prom. Great times.
The Weenie Queen and I make a good living and we're lucky to have jobs. So I shouldn't *****. We got her Brain Surgery, got Married and put her through School this year, so the Truck was going to be 6 months down the road as we saved up. As luck would have it, up pops this one, 6 months early.
We live on the Drive-In so we don't need a House right now. No Bank wants to touch me, even with my great credit and an existing good Auto Loan all because I don't own a house.
How's that working for America? Unbelievable that the Housing Crisis is one of the main reasons we're in this Credit Crunch, yet I can't borrow because I'm not about to lose my House. Another classic rule of Business I don't understand. I thought you were supposed to pay your debts, keep your debt under control, and not live on Credit. I guess I'm wrong. If I was up to my ass in bad debt the Banks would have no problem giving me money. Maybe Dave Ramsey will give me a loan.
Had a Boss in from California - lives in another World from what I'm used too, let me tell you. I've had to sneak in an hour here and there on this guy, because I got two weeks to get him done.
This here is what a 5 gallon bucket looks like when you take a jigsaw to it.
It will become:
Which are:
Still trying to figure how I'm gonna attach these.
Like I said in another thread that I ended up pissing people off in, I would kill for whatever glue they used to stick the 12 inch G.I. Joe's carpet fuzz hair to his head with. That stuff was back engineered from some Satanic putty that holds the Underworld together.
That glue is the only adhesive that could foil the myriad to attempts of a 10 year old to shave, scrape, blast and burn that stuff off his noggin to simulate a life threatening injury that would require an afternoon of nursing from a naked Zira Mego doll.
Got to cranking on his Shnozz, which was originally just a little round nose. (Refer back to Post #1) Well that wasn't working for me. I had a Black Pug I rescued named Tank. This guy weighed 40 pounds and was built like a, well, a Brick S@#t House. He was a great Guy. We had to give him the Pink Sleep because he developed Pug Encephalitis - which by the way is fuggin horrible - and I figured I'd give him the Tank Nose as an Homage.
Now this guy becomes a FryinPugaPandaenstein.
Here's the nose in Bondo Glass:
Here it is before primer:
Got bolts glued into the center so the nose can be removed and repainted after my Junkie Cousin falls over in the suit and smashes the nose.
I also rounded off all the finger and toenails, and sanded them down so he doesn't rip off a kid's ear while trying to shake their hand. Even sober the Guy's a menace.
Finishing the details on his clothes and I'll post those later.
My pledge to you:
This thread will be Smiley free.
Thanks Fools,
Laffo.
There is progress on the Mascot front, but none on the Truck front.
I am sick of talking to Banks.
I loaned a sum of cash to some friends and the exact amount I loaned them turns out would buy the Truck and do any refit I'd need to do.
As usual, impeccable timing on my part. Like when I borrowed my Granddad's Cadillac to go to my Senior Prom and the Transmission fell out in the Highway. My Dad's Car that he loaned me to get to the damn horrible dance was t-boned as the Valet brought it to us after Dinner, and Car #3 was stolen while we were in the Prom. Great times.
The Weenie Queen and I make a good living and we're lucky to have jobs. So I shouldn't *****. We got her Brain Surgery, got Married and put her through School this year, so the Truck was going to be 6 months down the road as we saved up. As luck would have it, up pops this one, 6 months early.
We live on the Drive-In so we don't need a House right now. No Bank wants to touch me, even with my great credit and an existing good Auto Loan all because I don't own a house.
How's that working for America? Unbelievable that the Housing Crisis is one of the main reasons we're in this Credit Crunch, yet I can't borrow because I'm not about to lose my House. Another classic rule of Business I don't understand. I thought you were supposed to pay your debts, keep your debt under control, and not live on Credit. I guess I'm wrong. If I was up to my ass in bad debt the Banks would have no problem giving me money. Maybe Dave Ramsey will give me a loan.
Had a Boss in from California - lives in another World from what I'm used too, let me tell you. I've had to sneak in an hour here and there on this guy, because I got two weeks to get him done.
This here is what a 5 gallon bucket looks like when you take a jigsaw to it.
It will become:
Which are:
Still trying to figure how I'm gonna attach these.
Like I said in another thread that I ended up pissing people off in, I would kill for whatever glue they used to stick the 12 inch G.I. Joe's carpet fuzz hair to his head with. That stuff was back engineered from some Satanic putty that holds the Underworld together.
That glue is the only adhesive that could foil the myriad to attempts of a 10 year old to shave, scrape, blast and burn that stuff off his noggin to simulate a life threatening injury that would require an afternoon of nursing from a naked Zira Mego doll.
Got to cranking on his Shnozz, which was originally just a little round nose. (Refer back to Post #1) Well that wasn't working for me. I had a Black Pug I rescued named Tank. This guy weighed 40 pounds and was built like a, well, a Brick S@#t House. He was a great Guy. We had to give him the Pink Sleep because he developed Pug Encephalitis - which by the way is fuggin horrible - and I figured I'd give him the Tank Nose as an Homage.
Now this guy becomes a FryinPugaPandaenstein.
Here's the nose in Bondo Glass:
Here it is before primer:
Got bolts glued into the center so the nose can be removed and repainted after my Junkie Cousin falls over in the suit and smashes the nose.
I also rounded off all the finger and toenails, and sanded them down so he doesn't rip off a kid's ear while trying to shake their hand. Even sober the Guy's a menace.
Finishing the details on his clothes and I'll post those later.
My pledge to you:
This thread will be Smiley free.
Thanks Fools,
Laffo.
Forestmoonstudio
Sr Member
Sorry to hear that dude. I have a similiar story. I have been in my house for 15 years and paying 7 1/4% on the loan. I owe 50,000. left on the house. Well with the rates this low. I figuare this is the time to Refi. Get the rate down. So I go do the paper work for a loan of 80,000. That way I can pay the 50,000. for the house and get cash back for remodeling and keep the loan at 15 years. I got locked at 5 1/4% 2% lower than original loan.
Now the county raised our assestments last year. My house assest at 180,000. So I figuare no problem. Now houses in my subdivsion just like mine sold for 240,000. 2 years ago. I have great credit. Never late on any payments of any kind and I get turned down. :angryI'm like WTF. So long story short, they are trying to tell me that my house right now with the market the way it is, is not worth 80,000.
So LAFFO. I say F&%$em!!!! and I won't give you a hard time about real life anymore.:lol
Back to topic. I love how you did the nails.:thumbsup Try Household GOOP. The best damn glue I have ever used.
Now the county raised our assestments last year. My house assest at 180,000. So I figuare no problem. Now houses in my subdivsion just like mine sold for 240,000. 2 years ago. I have great credit. Never late on any payments of any kind and I get turned down. :angryI'm like WTF. So long story short, they are trying to tell me that my house right now with the market the way it is, is not worth 80,000.
So LAFFO. I say F&%$em!!!! and I won't give you a hard time about real life anymore.:lol
Back to topic. I love how you did the nails.:thumbsup Try Household GOOP. The best damn glue I have ever used.
Laffo
Sr Member
I'm a fan of the Plumber's Goop, and it's on the short list of "Adhesing Bucket Pieces to Naughafur Trials 2009." Just need to find something to grab that bucket plastic.
I may drill holes in the nails and flatten hot glue through them. I can cover that up with the moons I have to paint on the nails later.
Yep, I've never understood the Credit System. I have Relatives that are abject Bums that have 10 Cars, New Homes and Fan Boats.
Laffo
Laffo
Sr Member
Nope yer hands and feet have to go in there, so it needs to be on the surface. Good idea though. 5 gallon bucket is gonna be his teeth too.
Laffo.
Cleverlilminx
Well-Known Member
Well what about removing some of the fur where you want to glue the plastic nail to and then use Goop or maybe a good glue like Magna-Tac 809. I have used that adhesive to glue anything to fabric with no issues.
Here is a link to Magna-Tac if anyone is interested:
http://www.weddingfactorydirect.com/matac809gl.html
Hope that helps.
Here is a link to Magna-Tac if anyone is interested:
http://www.weddingfactorydirect.com/matac809gl.html
Hope that helps.
Cleverlilminx
Well-Known Member
My only fear with applying glue onto the fur itself is that at some point the fur will shed a bit and can cause a two nail to become loose and possible fall off at the worst time.
Score and rough up the underside of the bucket pieces and use some JB weld. Squish it down on the fur while it's still wet and tacky. That stuff will NEVER come off. it would rip the fabric beneath before coming loos from the toenail or fur.
Laffo
Sr Member
I am a Glue Connoisseur, probably a hold over from my days of gas huffing with my fellow Inuits on our barren Tidal Island off the coast of Alaska. Granted I didn't live there, I was a pen pal to a kid there and in solidarity I huffed Gas too. We will not talk about Tape or Bailing Wire as those are a discussion for another day.
Mistake me not - there is JB Weld in this build already, just not on the nails. I'm the kind of jerk that reads packaging. I'm the only person in the USA who's actually read all the sh@t on the Dr. Bronner's Castille Soap bottle, the PB Blaster can and the JB Weld package. Well, on the JB Weld there a testimonial from a feller in - ALASKA - who fixes a Cat D-10 engine block with JB Weld.
Here's a Punk Rock band in the early 90's, cracked head on a 1981 Chevy 350 4 bolt main, Badlands South Dakota. See the 2 tubes of JB Weld in the tool box. See the resourceful singer fixing the head and the head gasket with the magical grey stuff. 112,000 more miles out of the van until I sold it with 460,000 total miles on it, repair still in place.
Yet again Reading saves the day. Thanks Reading!
The winner of the "Glue some Bucket to some Fur Contest" is a shocker.
"Loctite Super Glue with Activator for Plastics."
There is no excuse for this picture other than the fact that I am incredibly Glue high.
Back to the performance - I cannot pry these sumbitc#es - sumbitc#es being Bucket and Fur - apart.
Here are the nails masked and ready for paint:
Painted and shellacked:
Testing the match and positions:
Hands and Feet Nailed:
All's left to do on the hands and feet is add top and bottom knuckle hair and the H-O-T D-O-G tattoos on his hand knuckles. My plumber is bringing me big PVC Pipe to make his Manacles out of.
Here's the finished nose:
Outside
Inside
I'm going to start mapping out his head and features here in a minute or so see, so go huff some gas, ponder over the fact that Sarah Palin WAS kinda hot...
(This looks much better with a paper bag of Barge's over your mouth and nose)
...and I'll be back with more updates later.
Jerks,
Laffo.
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muttley
Well-Known Member
as a glue, duct tape and corn dog junkie I LOVE this thread! I also think I'm becoming part of the cult of Laffo...do you have meetings and/or a brochure? :lol
OT kinda, I worked in Corn Dog manufacturing for several years in Quality and R&D (Extremely large food manufacturer, we made close to a million a friggin day....that's a lot of friggin corn dogs). Your products are AWESOME!...nice combinations and great marketing! Everything I had in the pipeline never made it to mass market. Best was a sausage/egg/cheese on a stick dipped in biscuit batter. I had some other crazy ones, but others did not see my vision. :cool
I work for the airlines now, next time I'm in he ATL I'm headed to Palookaville.
OT kinda, I worked in Corn Dog manufacturing for several years in Quality and R&D (Extremely large food manufacturer, we made close to a million a friggin day....that's a lot of friggin corn dogs). Your products are AWESOME!...nice combinations and great marketing! Everything I had in the pipeline never made it to mass market. Best was a sausage/egg/cheese on a stick dipped in biscuit batter. I had some other crazy ones, but others did not see my vision. :cool
I work for the airlines now, next time I'm in he ATL I'm headed to Palookaville.
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