Author Topic: Pine Princess carves GameRoom Magazine Logo!!... (Read 18886 times)

rdowdy95 · « **Reply #40 on:** January 24, 2007, 07:41:27 pm »

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.

Donkey_Kong · « **Reply #41 on:** January 24, 2007, 09:02:06 pm »

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

More of Melissa's work...and different angles and what not...

$$**PRICING**$$
~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.

Melissa (Pinewood Princess)

PM me for a personal quote HERE!!

MythTrip · « **Reply #42 on:** January 25, 2007, 10:06:17 pm »

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.

Goz · « **Reply #43 on:** January 26, 2007, 12:05:27 am »

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.

Melissa Jones · « **Reply #44 on:** January 29, 2007, 11:55:24 am »

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!

steveh · « **Reply #45 on:** January 29, 2007, 01:33:27 pm »

hope every thing is ok. glad to see you back.

BamBam · « **Reply #46 on:** January 30, 2007, 08:14:15 am »

Quote from: Donkey_Kong on November 11, 2006, 12:37:00 pm

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

Donkey_Kong · « **Reply #47 on:** January 30, 2007, 09:20:12 am »

Bam Bam,

Thanks for the laugh...

You know I will get you for this though.

Donkey_Kong · « **Reply #48 on:** February 06, 2007, 09:49:10 pm »

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!!

Kaytrim · « **Reply #49 on:** February 06, 2007, 11:07:51 pm »

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.

Donkey_Kong · « **Reply #50 on:** February 07, 2007, 09:32:12 am »

Quote from: Kaytrim on February 06, 2007, 11:07:51 pm

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.

Havok · « **Reply #51 on:** February 07, 2007, 03:16:38 pm »

That makes a kickass display right there...

ahofle · « **Reply #52 on:** February 07, 2007, 04:52:48 pm »

God that Pacman is lucky.

rlemmon · « **Reply #53 on:** February 07, 2007, 05:41:39 pm »

Ya and It looks like frogger likes to watch.

Mamed for life · « **Reply #54 on:** February 08, 2007, 03:41:04 am »

Take a look at Mario on the far left....

JustMichael · « **Reply #55 on:** February 08, 2007, 04:43:04 am »

Where did PacMan stick his tongue?

csa3d · « **Reply #56 on:** February 08, 2007, 05:18:27 am »

Quote from: Donkey_Kong on November 11, 2006, 12:37:00 pm

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

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

Donkey_Kong · « **Reply #57 on:** February 08, 2007, 10:38:40 am »

Given the popularity of pac's current 'position'

I thought I would share a tighter shot.

Havok · « **Reply #58 on:** February 08, 2007, 11:56:29 am »

I'd be giving a thumbs up too!

Donkey_Kong · « **Reply #59 on:** February 09, 2007, 10:10:19 pm »

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!

fixedpigs · « **Reply #60 on:** February 09, 2007, 10:44:32 pm »

Quote from: Mamed for life on February 08, 2007, 03:41:04 am

Take a look at Mario on the far left....

yeah...dirk has definitely noticed...he looks pissed...

MythTrip · « **Reply #61 on:** February 11, 2007, 05:15:15 pm »

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

Kaytrim · « **Reply #62 on:** February 11, 2007, 05:50:28 pm »

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

Melissa Jones · « **Reply #63 on:** February 11, 2007, 09:34:56 pm »

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!

Donkey_Kong · « **Reply #64 on:** March 04, 2007, 12:18:42 am »

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

Kaytrim · « **Reply #65 on:** March 04, 2007, 11:07:52 am »

Welcome back Melissa!!

That Coily and Q*Bert look great.

Donkey_Kong · « **Reply #66 on:** April 17, 2007, 10:54:23 pm »

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

GALLERY VIEW of PROJECT HERE

Initial Carving Process

Close-up

Pump Hose will be included on all orders

Dimensions...Check it out, POOKA is half inflated!!

steveh · « **Reply #67 on:** April 18, 2007, 10:39:41 am »

every time i see these i want to order a whole bunch. i need to set some cash aside for this project.

MythTrip · « **Reply #68 on:** April 20, 2007, 08:12:28 pm »

Sent in an order for the Dig Dug scene and Q*Bert-Coily casts. Thanks again.

Jim T.

Donkey_Kong · « **Reply #69 on:** April 20, 2007, 08:29:41 pm »

Quote from: MythTrip on April 20, 2007, 08:12:28 pm

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.

MythTrip · « **Reply #70 on:** April 21, 2007, 07:38:08 pm »

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.


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