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Her orginal carvings are going for $75-$125 depending on the piece. Detail, size, etc...
She has castings as well that are running a flat rate of $50 painted, or $40 a piece for 2 or more. The 3 Barrels are considered 1 piece so you save $$ there.
Her art is kind of spendy but it is really cool stuff. She puts alot of work into EVERY piece and she deserves every penny that she gets back. Thing is is that we actually have a lot of money invested into this now in the way of tools and molding/casting supplies. Melissa is definitely in the red on this endeavor. If you have contemplated picking up a piece or two of her castings or carvings...Now is a good time. She could really use some confidence orders right about now.
Pic of castings and carvings...
(http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=61405.0;attach=65073;image)
$$**PRICING**$$
~Custom Wood Carving by Melissa
$75-$125
~Fully Painted Castings
$50 each for 1, $40 each for 2 or more castings
~Unpainted Castings
$25 each.
(http://nicecarvings.com/assets/images/melissa-smiling1.jpg)
Melissa (Pinewood Princess)
PM me for a personal quote HERE!! (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=pm;sa=send;u=12663)
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(http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=59775.0;attach=60959;image)
(http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=59775.0;attach=61079;image)
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OK...
What is your best guess? Shoot!! I'd even be happy with a little sarcasm at this point...Give me something!!
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From what I understand it's promotional/game art for "Mario vs Donkey Kong" for the GBA..
http://www.allgame.com/cg/agg.dll?p=agg&sql=1:43474 (http://www.allgame.com/cg/agg.dll?p=agg&sql=1:43474)
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:notworthy:
Thanks Organic!!...That works I guess. I will have to get an Advance Emulator into my machine someday now...I'm a using that there image for my sideart on my cabinet. It will be in a very unique form however...Will post results in a week or two hopefully...
DK Killa
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why use that picture when this one is infinitely better? :)
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davieboynj
Where did that one come from? DK flyer or something?
I'm not going to disagree that yours is better in some ways...especially in authenticity to the original game of all games. On the other hand for my application the newer "Mario hammer smash" art is going to work better. Thats allz I can say for now. I'm adding your clip to my small but ever growing collection for a future project though...THANKS!!
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Well here is the final for my side art...I don't know how my wife pulled this stuff off but she carved it out of pine wood. Pretty cool of her to do this for my cab project. I'm sure once we get closer to being done with the whole project we will post up some more pictures and stuff.
Here it is...
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Here are more pics related to "Mario vs DK"
http://www.n-sider.com/gameview.php?gameid=640 (http://www.n-sider.com/gameview.php?gameid=640)
Click on the pics under "Development Summary"
Mario
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Well here is the final for my side art...I don't know how my wife pulled this stuff off so...yea.
Here it is...
Wow. How'd you do that? What material is it?
Maybe you should have your wife post :)
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Put it on the front page - too cool! If she wants to make me one of the Donkey Kong's for Christmas I'll hang it on my gameroom wall :)
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Thanks Saint!!...She will be glad to know she has your endorsment. She is still sleeping though, I think i wore her out seriously! She carved so much wood that she literally couldn't move her hands the next day!!
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Wow! Those are really awesome. Nice job wife-of-Donkey-Kong!
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Man, those are amazing!
-S
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Now, that's love if I've ever seen it! Totally unique and really fun. Kudos!
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Would she consider making those to sell? :)
Thanks Saint!!...She will be glad to know she has your endorsment. She is still sleeping though, I think i wore her out seriously! She carved so much wood that she literally couldn't move her hands the next day!!
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Would she consider making those to sell?
I'm pretty sure she will do more to order. Obviously she would be willing to try some different characters as well...Send her some digital art + dimensions and she could quote prices on a per order basis for now. PM would work good for now...
My stuff is done so...she's all yours :laugh2: JK hun!!
EDIT: To give you an idea...Her current art dimensions are as follows
DK 16"x10"x1" Pine
Mario 14"x8"x1" Pine
Pacman 11"x10"x1" Pine
Ghost 8"x8"x1" Pine
Hint: The more detail that your character has will require it to be larger in size for best results. For example we learned that Mario should have been a little bigger. DK is just right as he turned out well. If you went smaller with DK you might start losing the crazy detail. Pacman is just right and the ghost is cool. The ghost has a bit of a paint issue that won't happen again as well.
DK
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Donkey-Kong, A suggestion, if your wife is actually interested in selling these, then you should look at making molds of your existing characters and then casting new ones out of resin. You could make lots of them, of very high quality, without it taking too much of your time. Otherwise, either they will be too expensive, or they won't be worth your wife's time to carve. Good luck :)
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Those wood :laugh2: (sorry had to go there) look great as gameroom art.
When your wife's hands are better I'd love to get price's and lesson's on woodcarving.
Cheers
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Wow, those are awesome!
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They make my ideas about painting characters on the wall in the game room feel like an amateurs idea. Now I have to go and by myself a chisel (well probably more than one). I tell my wife it is your wife's fault that our money went to tools instead of food :-)
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Does anybody know what gaming platform this particular Mario originates from?
Thanks!!
Edit: Second thought, this topic would probably fit better in arcade Miscelanious or hhhht...duuuuuh Artwork :dizzy:...
Do you have a copy to share? I like this one better than oldie.
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very cool looking carvings....
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Specfire- Thanks for the tips!! We're looking into it!
BamBam- I have a larger copy on my other computor...I'll hook you up. oldie...heh. It is authentic though. I might use oldie next time around.
Jimkar-Sorry for taking food off the table, Did you get your chisels yet?
Everybody else- Thanks for the compliments. Much appreciated!
PS: We are giving price quotes through PM's or Private Messages for you to get your version of these or whatever character you would like to have done by the Pinewood Princess (wife new nicname)
Took four diff shots of a slight different angle.
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I comitted the cardinal sin and brought my cab in the house at about neh 70% done. I'm telling you I couldn't stand it no more. Had to play it!! Also, given the interest that was struck by my wifes side art...I figured you guys might want a peek at what this big pine box looks like. (pinebox wtf?)
I know this thing is pretty far out in left field when compared to a traditional cab...Just bare with us though. Obviously there is a bunch more work to do and there is gonna be one more big surprise for the grand finally on this thing before she's done. The surprise will be in the area of where traditional cab would be t-mold. Also, something to wrap up the wide permeter of the CP a little better. I actually don't know what to do on the marque yet. I'm sure my wife will come up with something there. A name would help. Been trying to think of one for awhile and got notta. I kept thinking pine something. Every spec of wood including all artwork on this thng is pine. My kid says "Pinewood Paradise". I kinda like it unless you got somethin better...
Here she is so far...
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Wow, very nice! Did the wife also carve the smaller characters around the bezel area? I really like the pixeled Mario.
Name...how about the Spruce Excuse? (yes Honey its furniture!...although she seems to be as into it as you! Too cool.)
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Very smooth. I like it a lot. When the bazel and other details are done, it'll be really cool. I personally love wood-grain cabs. My cocktail, which will be done by Sunday (I hope), is oak.
I really love the wooden characters around the screen. It just looks like something I'd put coins in at the arcade.
What kind of joys did you use? Are those Mag-Stick plus with ball top?
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Totally SWEET!
Not only would I be in awe owning them
Not only would I be in MORE awe if my wife bought them for me
BUT if my wife MADE them???
heck, my wifes eyes just roll when I talk arcade machines!
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NIce ... congrats on the cab ... and, more importantly, the wife! :cheers:
Cheers
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okay seriousily your cab needs some kinda award in the art catergory
that is awesome looking i love the 3d figures poping out at you!
good job
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Wow!
That is truely awesome. Wish my other half had woodwork skills on top of her cooking, cleaning, mothering etc.
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It's a great idea. Showed them to my wife and she said "if they're selling these, they'd make a great addition for your room in the basement!".
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Wow, very nice! Did the wife also carve the smaller characters around the bezel area? I really like the pixeled Mario.
Name...how about the Spruce Excuse? (yes Honey its furniture!...although she seems to be as into it as you! Too cool.)
My wife put me in charge of the less technical 2d bezel carvings. I'm kinda proud of my little dudes. Some of them turned out cool but a far cry from what she can pull off. She knew she would have to give me one of those tasks that are really time consuming but pretty much mindless. This was to keep me out of her way while she worked her magic on her 3D pieces. It worked out good for both of us.
Name Options (need more) so far:
Pinewood Paradise
Spruce Excuse
Woody Kong
Bouncy Barrels
Donkey Paradise
Would like to really thank everybody for the compliments on the wife's artwork. She appreciates it as well. I hope someday soon she can get her own BYOAC account and tell you herself but now she is busy carving more stuff for fellow forum members, so who knows when she will get to it. She started two more Donkey Kongs today!
Edit: My friend Tommi from Twin Galaxies added to the name list...
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All I can say is "WOW!!!"
Just got my Donkey Kong and Pacman... Now to figure out where to HANG it! :)
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Verrrry nice... I'd recommend against doing something (like the molds) with which you could mass produce them. The carvings are awesome and unique. Making them out of plastic would make them less unique feeling and probably get the attention of some people who wouldn't like your doing it.
The wood carvings are sweet. Very nice.
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Chad- I think I agree partially with what you are saying. On the other hand though I don't think my wifes operation could really ever be considered MASS production, each piece would still be hand painted (1-2 hours just in paint for each piece) Also, molding her carvings will be the only way she would really ever be able to produce enough for how many people want them. It takes her about 4-6 hours to carve each piece depending on the detail and size, then you add in paint time and now you are at 8 hours per piece. She would have carpel tunnel in no time flat at that pace. Basically molding these pieces will be the only feasible way to realistickly deliver these in a reasonable amount of time or quantity what-so-ever.
Also, I believe what she is doing molding or not, as either way is her own piece of art, is really pretty mild compared to like say somebody pushing clik on the print button and popping off a few dozen copies of some original vinyl print side art...Another comparison could be an artist doing his very own original rendition of say this plumber/carpenter for example, that just so happens to look like this Mario plumber/carpenter that all of us game heads know dang good and well who it is. Said artisit then proceeds to print neee...100 or maybe 1000 copies with the click of a mouse and proceeds to sell the renditions for dollars. That my friend in my book would be considered mass production. Now had he hand painted each and every one of those 100 or 1000 copies...different story.
Chad, I understand what you are saying and appreciate the compliments...Bottom line is that we will have more happy campers if we mold the pieces and then hand paint them. She will be able to actually deliver this way and not suffer physically in doing so. The price will be significantly cheaper and the cost of the carved wood will probably go up. By the way, I succesfully molded for the very first time last night one of her recent carvings and the result was really, really cool!! We are excited!! Please don't try to burst our bubbles...not just yet anyway!!
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how much would you sell one of those mario's for?
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Thanks Steve!
Her orginal carvings are going for $75-$125 depending on the piece. Detail, size, etc...
She has castings as well that are running a flat rate of $50 painted, or $40 a piece for 2 or more. The 3 Barrels are considered 1 piece so you save $$ there.
Her art is kind of spendy but it is really cool stuff. She puts alot of work into EVERY piece and she deserves every penny that she gets back. Thing is is that we actually have a lot of money invested into this now in the way of tools and molding/casting supplies. Melissa is definitely in the red on this endeavor. If you have contemplated picking up a piece or two of her castings or carvings...Now is a good time. She could really use some confidence orders right about now.
$$**PRICING**$$
~Custom Wood Carving by Melissa
$75-$125
~Fully Painted Castings by Melissa
$50 each for 1, $40 each for 2 or more castings
~Unpainted Castings
$25 each.
(http://nicecarvings.com/assets/images/melissa-smiling1.jpg)
Melissa (Pinewood Princess)
PM me for a personal quote HERE!! (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=pm;sa=send;u=12663)
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It seems to be very fair pricing considering the looks of the quality. It would be awesome to decorate a wall in a gameroom with it...now...where can I buy a gameroom at?
Xam
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Have you considered doing blow cast moldings with plastic so you can attach these things on a cabinet as sideart? Could be cool having 3d sideart.
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Man those sure are cool. This is my first time to comment on them, and I thought I would give you some props. Much props to her, but some to you for being smart to marry her! Man those are cool. Does she like to play Mame Games with you. It is hard for me to get my wife to play pacman.
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Xam- Appreciate the words. Who knows what will happen with the pricing, I mean we are just testing the waters. We want to do what is fair and also works for us.
Headkaze- please be more specific on the Blow casting. We are intersted but what is the diff between what we are doing now? I mean I plan to use the current casts for the side of my cab.
rdowdy- I got one word for you about your question as to if she "plays"...CLICK (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=62443.0)
More of Melissa's work...and different angles and what not...
(http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=61384.0;attach=65530;image)
(http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=61384.0;attach=65538;image)
(http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=61405.0;attach=65073;image)
$$**PRICING**$$
~Custom Wood Carving by Melissa
$75-$125
~Fully Painted Castings
$50 each for 1, $40 each for 2 or more castings
~Unpainted Castings
$25 each.
(http://nicecarvings.com/assets/images/melissa-smiling1.jpg)
Melissa (Pinewood Princess)
PM me for a personal quote HERE!! (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=pm;sa=send;u=12663)
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Jason & Melissa,
Thanks again for the great carvings (Packer's logo and four arcade characters). Great details
and very high quality work! They look great in my game room.
Hope you are up for another order..........I just sent you an emai.
Jim T. :applaud:
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I'm still kicking arround ideas, but I'm probably going to ask you to do some stuff for my game room or the home theater.
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hey everyone, i just wanted to let you all know that we have a family member in the hospital. :( we took a few days off from carving and getting back to emails but i should get back to working on all that today!
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hope every thing is ok. glad to see you back.
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I comitted the cardinal sin and brought my cab in the house at about neh 70% done. I'm telling you I couldn't stand it no more. Had to play it!! Also, given the interest that was struck by my wifes side art...I figured you guys might want a peek at what this big pine box looks like. (pinebox wtf?)
I know this thing is pretty far out in left field when compared to a traditional cab...Just bare with us though. Obviously there is a bunch more work to do and there is gonna be one more big surprise for the grand finally on this thing before she's done. The surprise will be in the area of where traditional cab would be t-mold. Also, something to wrap up the wide permeter of the CP a little better. I actually don't know what to do on the marque yet. I'm sure my wife will come up with something there. A name would help. Been trying to think of one for awhile and got notta. I kept thinking pine something. Every spec of wood including all artwork on this thng is pine. My kid says "Pinewood Paradise". I kinda like it unless you got somethin better...
Here she is so far...
Somebody ship this poor man a bezel ;)
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Bam Bam,
Thanks for the laugh... :laugh2: You know I will get you for this though.
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Update for Melissa.
She is back at it with pretty good force. More so for painting cast as of late rather than carving. Yesterday morning we had a reading of -42 degrees actual just to the North of us. She cannot and will not work in the garage in these conditions. Everything will break including her, me thinks.
Not all bad news though. Melissa has worked diligently on another HUGE custom carving order for BYOAC member MameMaster! I have included some pics of his stuff as well as some other members.
If you have an order in progress with Melissa currently she will be finishing them this week. Specifically Jim and SodaPop and NH from another forum. If you are interested, everythinig you see pictured are either carved wood and amongst are alot of castings as well. She will be available from here on out to paint castings. PM for details!
Thanks guys!!
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You have got to get a list of available castings on the website and keep it up to date. If you don't it will get to be too big a job.
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You have got to get a list of available castings on the website and keep it up to date. If you don't it will get to be too big a job.
Thanks K! I gotta do something with that website I know, I know.
For now though. On the casting tip. EVERYTHING you see in this pic is molded plus a few more actually.
(http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=59775.0;attach=66600;image)
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That makes a kickass display right there...
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God that Pacman is lucky. :laugh2:
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:laugh2: :laugh2: :laugh2: Ya and It looks like frogger likes to watch.
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Take a look at Mario on the far left....
:o
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Where did PacMan stick his tongue? ;)
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I comitted the cardinal sin and brought my cab in the house at about neh 70% done.
Whew - for a minute there, I was guessing the sin was using WINDOWS as front end ;D
I think those characters are awesome, and they work well on a stained wood finish! I would have never thought of doing that. I've always liked the idea of staining a wood cab, then having a metal sheet cut out, raised slightly, and neon backlit so that I had 'sideart' with a modern flair. Good ideas here though!
I agree with the casting comment above. I'd like a frogger to have a wall decoration, and the pacman was cool as well. I think ebay might have a small market for this kind of thing too, something to definately look into if it's affordable for casts to be created.
Thanks for sharing!
-csa
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Given the popularity of pac's current 'position'
I thought I would share a tighter shot.
(http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=59775.0;attach=66693;image)
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I'd be giving a thumbs up too!
:applaud:
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Turns out this move and taking care of my pops is tougher than first thought. WOW! D_K went from peddling chunks of plastic to being a nurse overnight. Sorry guys. You will still see me frothing around a lot but Melissa is booked with too much to perform any carving or painting of casts.
:'( It is sad cause we were just getting warmed up. Hopefully this passes soon though. IF YOU HAVE PAID FOR A PROJECT IT WILL GET DONE SOON! Otherwise I will be putting up an auto responder for her website contact.
Thanks for the overall support and all that jazz guys! :applaud:
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Take a look at Mario on the far left....
:o
yeah...dirk has definitely noticed...he looks pissed... :timebomb:
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Jason & Melissa,
Thanks for the update and hope everything works out for you. Also, congrats on getting
the cover for GameRoom magazine.
http://www.gameroommagazine.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=16&products_id=353
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Jason & Melissa,
I hope that things turn around for you and you are able to get back up and running. Think about offering castings as a do it yourself kit. At least you can still do the castings Jason even if Melissa can't paint them.
Kaytrim
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Thank you everyone for your nice comments. I am trying to make time to finish all the projects that I have started and I should have some good progress on them this week. So if you are waiting for an order, it shouldn't be too long. As for new orders I am putting them off for a little while so that we can get moved and settled in. We will let everyone know when we are ready to start taking more orders. I want to get back to carving every day asap, I miss it! Just give us a little time, we are overwhelmed right now with these drastic changes in our life.
Thank you for understanding! :)
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MELISSA IS BACK!! She is more prepared for castings right now and carving in a couple of weeks. Still working on getting a new shop setup for her...
Click image for a full gallery of all of her arcade carvings to date.
http://nicecarvings.com/html/gallery.html
(http://nicecarvings.com/assets/images/db_images/db_Main-Gallery-121.jpg) (http://nicecarvings.com/html/main_gallery_1_0.html)
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Welcome back Melissa!! :applaud: :cheers: That Coily and Q*Bert look great.
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BYO'ers- Haven't posted (spammed front page) here for awhile...Thought this set was worthy.
Melissa literally just finished up a sweet dig dug scene for a regular customer. She is offering a special on painted plastic casts of this scene. First come first serve. First casting sets will start shipping in a week or less.
PRE ORDER HERE (http://nicecarvings.com/html/preorders.html)
GALLERY VIEW of PROJECT HERE (http://nicecarvings.com/html/jvv.html)
Initial Carving Process
(http://nicecarvings.com/assets/images/db_images/db_db_Dig-Dug-813.jpg)
Close-up
(http://nicecarvings.com/assets/images/db_images/db_IMG_72864.jpg)
Pump Hose will be included on all orders
(http://nicecarvings.com/assets/images/db_images/db_IMG_72825.jpg)
Dimensions...Check it out, POOKA is half inflated!!
(http://nicecarvings.com/assets/images/db_images/db_jvvSizeChart2.jpg)
:cheers:
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every time i see these i want to order a whole bunch. i need to set some cash aside for this project.
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Sent in an order for the Dig Dug scene and Q*Bert-Coily casts. Thanks again.
Jim T.
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Sent in an order for the Dig Dug scene and Q*Bert-Coily casts. Thanks again.
Jim T.
Thanks Jim! Melissa is getting back to you on the other carving requests right now. We also found some really cool hose today for the Dig Dug Scene. It is way better than what is pictured above.
EDIT: Here is a shot of the new hose. She will take some diameter from the Pooka attachment point to accommodate the new hose.
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Hey Jason,
I responeded to Melissa's PM with details on the BurgerTime and Mr. Do! projects. I'm not
sure if it went through. I also sent her an email with the details at her .........kitemn.com
address. Let me know if you guys didn't receive either of them.
Thanks,
Jim T.