Fakebook Famous lol! 😅🤩

[Littlemotor]

My airbrushing practice is paying off already lol.. Just saw this pop up when I hopped on Fakebook to find a specific chicken recipe I’d seen a while back. AWESOME! Wish I’d taken better pics!

I can’t say enough good things about BOOM Graphics-from being awesome to work with, and putting my ideas to vinyl. The price is right, and the results are tremendous. Awesome of Mike to mention me, and show off my ride! If anyone is interested in having any work done-they aren’t limited to decals either. Check ‘em out!

https://boomrc.net/home/

 

[WickedFog]

My airbrushing practice is paying off already lol.. Just saw this pop up when I hopped on Fakebook to find a specific chicken recipe I’d seen a while back. AWESOME! Wish I’d taken better pics!

I can’t say enough good things about BOOM Graphics-from being awesome to work with, and putting my ideas to vinyl. The price is right, and the results are tremendous. Awesome of Mike to mention me, and show off my ride! If anyone is interested in having any work done-they aren’t limited to decals either. Check ‘em out!

https://boomrc.net/home/

Stop showing off and get back to work ya slacker!

Grats man. That's pretty darned cool of them.

And thanks for the link. I have a couple rides I'd like to get some custom decals for.

 

[Littlemotor]

Stop showing off and get back to work ya slacker!

Grats man. That's pretty darned cool of them.

And thanks for the link. I have a couple rides I'd like to get some custom decals for.

Ha! I knocked out another last night! I’ve definitely been slacking in the photos department though lol.. I’ll get a few here in a bit, then doing some chicken for dinner, and onto the next truggy lid immediately after. This one has a few more effects than the previous three have, so I’m not sure how far I’ll get on it this evening.. Not gonna rush it, but if it turns out half as good as I HOPE, I’ll be freakin’ STOKED. Thanks for the kind words, and the shiit talkin’-means a lot my friend!

Oh, and ask for Mike-and tell him Mickey Primo sent ya!!!

 

[CertifiedMike]

Listen bud, I was demanding, err, asking for you to do a body for me WAY before these damned stickers so if you think you're gonna just get out of it now...

Nice work! I doubt I'll be any better with stickers than with an airbrush if I'm honest!!!
Very cool to have your work recognized like this. Congrats!

 

[Littlemotor]

Listen bud, I was demanding, err, asking for you to do a body for me WAY before these damned stickers so if you think you're gonna just get out of it now...

Nice work! I doubt I'll be any better with stickers than with an airbrush if I'm honest!!!
Very cool to have your work recognized like this. Congrats!

We would get along GREAT in person man! I appreciate the kind words! I’m flat out amazed at the requests I’ve gotten so early on, and that for sure feels good, and gives me momentum to keep getting better. Hell-like ya said; just doing decals is an absolute MOFO sometimes..

Let me get more consistent, grow out of some bad habits, and make sure my work is gonna be DURABLE, and I’ll have no problem shootin’ some lids for folks. I can tell ya there’s a freakin line forming like I’m TicketMaster or someshiit lol… I may catch the BANstick from @WickedFog if I let anyone cut him though!

Edit: because AI autocorrect SUCKS. “banstick” to “bad stick”… I will never talk about a man’s “bad stick”….

 

[CertifiedMike]

https://invidious.jing.rocks/watch?v=0WGVgfjnLqc

And we ALL know what happened the last time he broke out "the bad stick"!

 

[Littlemotor]

https://invidious.jing.rocks/watch?v=0WGVgfjnLqc

And we ALL know what happened the last time he broke out "the bad stick"!

See above edit.

 

[CertifiedMike]

I still say this forum could do with some more dancing, just generally. Rythm sticks for everyone!!!

 

[9x19]

I know very little about facebook, but congrats, I guess?

 

[Littlemotor]

I know very little about facebook, but congrats, I guess?

Thanks man. I am not big on Fakebook, BUT most of the world is these days. So when a premier graphics company whom allllllll the pro’s use, use my garbage to advertise their products, and represent their business; it’s a big deal to me for my stuff to have been nice enough to be worthy. That buggy was my first time ever putting any paint through an airbrush, so it feels pretty damned good.

 

[WickedFog]

We would get along GREAT in person man! I appreciate the kind words! I’m flat out amazed at the requests I’ve gotten so early on, and that for sure feels good, and gives me momentum to keep getting better. Hell-like ya said; just doing decals is an absolute MOFO sometimes..

Let me get more consistent, grow out of some bad habits, and make sure my work is gonna be DURABLE, and I’ll have no problem shootin’ some lids for folks. I can tell ya there’s a freakin line forming like I’m TicketMaster or someshiit lol… I may catch the BANstick from @WickedFog if I let anyone cut him though!

Edit: because AI autocorrect SUCKS. “banstick” to “bad stick”… I will never talk about a man’s “bad stick”….

I'm actually a pretty long ways off before I get to work on our XXX-SCT, but that will be the body I would like to send you and have done eventually.

As for the decals, I love decaling. Especially if they aren't precut ones. Because I try to trim off as much of the excess as possible, and the precut ones make that task suck.

Not sure if anyone else does this when decaling, but I always remove the backing a little til I can cut it in half. Then I take the half I cut off and cut a thin strip out if it along the cut edge. Then I put the backing back on, leaving that thin strip of the decal exposed. That allows you to position the decal, then when you have it in place, press down in the center of the decal where you removed the strip. Makes for flawless placement.

 

[Littlemotor]

I'm actually a pretty long ways off before I get to work on our XXX-SCT, but that will be the body I would like to send you and have done eventually.

As for the decals, I love decaling. Especially if they aren't precut ones. Because I try to trim off as much of the excess as possible, and the precut ones make that task suck.

Not sure if anyone else does this when decaling, but I always remove the backing a little til I can cut it in half. Then I take the half I cut off and cut a thin strip out if it along the cut edge. Then I put the backing back on, leaving that thin strip of the decal exposed. That allows you to position the decal, then when you have it in place, press down in the center of the decal where you removed the strip. Makes for flawless placement.

Well we are definitely cut from the same cloth man! I’ve ALWAYS trimmed my decals on a craft cutting board with the X-acto the same exact way. My gripe was wanting all my decals in the manufacturers FONT, but in MY colors. That was a big thing in 1:1 racecars in the late ‘90’s, and I just never pulled the trigger until a year or two back, and for my surface RC stuff. I also know exactly what procedure you speak of with laying them on your work. I’ve done it a handful of times with success, but I’ve also got a really good eye for this crap. My body shop friends actually call me over when they’re doing emblems, vinyl graphics, or pinstripes, and refer to it as the “(my last name)-laser-eyeball”… I own levels, plumb bobs, framing squares, chalk lines, etc, but if I want something dead nuts straight-I go to the eyeball, lol.. The method you use, is a MUST for doing big stuff by yourself though FOR SURE.

FWIW, the BOOM Graphics stuff IS precut, but they are SUPER ANAL about it. I guarantee you’d be happy with it (and SURPRISED), if I was..

@WickedFog I pulled a complete space cadet maneuver, and replied in the other post about the Losi body lol..

 

[WickedFog]

Well we are definitely cut from the same cloth man! I’ve ALWAYS trimmed my decals on a craft cutting board with the X-acto the same exact way. My gripe was wanting all my decals in the manufacturers FONT, but in MY colors. That was a big thing in 1:1 racecars in the late ‘90’s, and I just never pulled the trigger until a year or two back, and for my surface RC stuff. I also know exactly what procedure you speak of with laying them on your work. I’ve done it a handful of times with success, but I’ve also got a really good eye for this crap. My body shop friends actually call me over when they’re doing emblems, vinyl graphics, or pinstripes, and refer to it as the “(my last name)-laser-eyeball”… I own levels, plumb bobs, framing squares, chalk lines, etc, but if I want something dead nuts straight-I go to the eyeball, lol.. The method you use, is a MUST for doing big stuff by yourself though FOR SURE.

FWIW, the BOOM Graphics stuff IS precut, but they are SUPER ANAL about it. I guarantee you’d be happy with it (and SURPRISED), if I was..

I can see straight lines really well. I just can't cut or paint straight lines lol.

One time I was putting two Kurt 6" vises in a Haas CNC Mill. Plopped the first one down, smacked it straight by eye, then did the second one while trying to line it up with the first vise. When I swept the first one in with my test indicator, it was straight within .0002". My co-worker was like holy chit lol. I ran the indicator to the other vise, and not only did it return to "0", but that vise was within .0002" as well. So I had somehow got two vises nearly perfectly inline by eye. I could always get them within .015" or so but damn, that was crazy. But give me a pen and ask me to draw a straight line and it'll look like a snake

 

[Littlemotor]

I can see straight lines really well. I just can't cut or paint straight lines lol.

One time I was putting two Kurt 6" vises in a Haas CNC Mill. Plopped the first one down, smacked it straight by eye, then did the second one while trying to line it up with the first vise. When I swept the first one in with my test indicator, it was straight within .0002". My co-worker was like holy chit lol. I ran the indicator to the other vise, and not only did it return to "0", but that vise was within .0002" as well. So I had somehow got two vises nearly perfectly inline by eye. I could always get them within .015" or so but damn, that was crazy. But give me a pen and ask me to draw a straight line and it'll look like a snake

GodZILLA man.

I’m in industrial maintenance, and as you probably guessed-I’ve done a lot of work on lathes, mills, 2-3 story shot blast machines, induction hardeners, temper tunnels, HUUUUUUGE presses, etc.. I am very familiar with allllll kinds of Haas machines, and what you’re talking about is unicorn shiit lol.. I’ve gotten pretty lucky in setup/calibration after an operator crashes a Haas, but I’ve done some straight up OBSCENE setup on an Okuma… I was notorious for “roughing in” a turret post crash within 4 microns. And I could do it in less than 28min. Never let ‘em know what you can do… I quickly became “the Okuma crashed again guy”…

 

[WickedFog]

GodZILLA man.

I’m in industrial maintenance, and as you probably guessed-I’ve done a lot of work on lathes, mills, 2-3 story shot blast machines, induction hardeners, temper tunnels, HUUUUUUGE presses, etc.. I am very familiar with allllll kinds of Haas machines, and what you’re talking about is unicorn shiit lol.. I’ve gotten pretty lucky in setup/calibration after an operator crashes a Haas, but I’ve done some straight up OBSCENE setup on an Okuma… I was notorious for “roughing in” a turret post crash within 4 microns. And I could do it in less than 28min. Never let ‘em know what you can do… I quickly became “the Okuma crashed again guy”…

Loved the Okuma mills. That must have been some heavy duty crashes to knock one of those bad boys out of whack!

 

[Littlemotor]

Loved the Okuma mills. That must have been some heavy duty crashes to knock one of those bad boys out of whack!

I am not jerking you around when I tell you those jackasses managed to crash that joker THAT HARD 3 times a week… When upper management puts production numbers above asset integrity..

I loved the Okuma’s as well man. Super solid machines.

 

[WickedFog]

I am not jerking you around when I tell you those jackasses managed to crash that joker THAT HARD 3 times a week… When upper management puts production numbers above asset integrity..

I loved the Okuma’s as well man. Super solid machines.

In 25 years, I crashed 2 machines. 4 if you count parts getting chucked out of a shiity collet chuck. But one that came out of the collet chuck is the only one that damaged the machine. Cost $10,000 to replace the spindle

Technically not my fault, but I was getting pretty aggressive with my toolpath, and I knew I wasn't holding the part very well - so yeah, my fault.

 

[Littlemotor]

In 25 years, I crashed 2 machines. 4 if you count parts getting chucked out of a shiity collet chuck. But one that came out of the collet chuck is the only one that damaged the machine. Cost $10,000 to replace the spindle

Technically not my fault, but I was getting pretty aggressive with my toolpath, and I knew I wasn't holding the part very well - so yeah, my fault.

If you never break anything, or make a mistake, you’re just not working hard lol.. I got real good at swapping out EMAG spindle motors unfortunately.. Those were a large time to put it mildly.. over $100k for a REMAN motor.. I don’t even wanna know what it cost to pay the EMAG guy to stand there, and listen to me tell him to stay outta my way while I did his job..

 

[WickedFog]

If you never break anything, or make a mistake, you’re just not working hard lol.. I got real good at swapping out EMAG spindle motors unfortunately.. Those were a large time to put it mildly.. over $100k for a REMAN motor.. I don’t even wanna know what it cost to pay the EMAG guy to stand there, and listen to me tell him to stay outta my way while I did his job..

We had a Haas tech that I got to know from him servicing machines at nearly every shop I worked at. He could listen to you describing the problem, and/or run the machine through a few moves, then he would know exactly what was wrong. And he was fast. He tore the table off a Haas VF2 and replaced the Y axis servo cable in just a few hours. I was always impressed with that guy.

 

[luke66]

That thing looks rad!