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Posted: **Fri May 08, 2009 8:20 am**

The latest I have done, with the Ford hubcap no less. This was a blurry painting of a Ford truck in a grassy field. I have no idea if it is even a real Ford truck.

Posted: **Fri May 08, 2009 8:22 am**

Thats really cool. Where did you come up with the idea of hubcap art?

Posted: **Fri May 08, 2009 9:10 am**

RussellK wrote:Thats really cool. Where did you come up with the idea of hubcat art?

I had some hubcaps from my 64 Bug I didn't want to throw away, and wanted to do something with them, so my son and I painted them and hung them up. When I got some more, I just figured why not use them instead of putting them in a landfill? This is two of them a few years ago.

Posted: **Fri May 08, 2009 2:55 pm**

I did a jacket for myself years ago, an A-2 like the aircrews wear, and had a friend paint a girl I picked out of a Playboy, but I did the rest. I have a patch for all the squadrons I have been in the Air Force, and a bomb for every year I had been in. This was taken in 2002 while I was in Kuwait, I had just added the Kuwait Towers on the back.

Posted: **Wed Jun 03, 2009 7:20 am**

Latest one from a Ford hubcap. This is a patch from an Air Force squadron, the 416th Bombardment, they flew B-17's in the Mediterranean and European theaters. Here is the original patch:

And here is my hubcap.

Posted: **Wed Jun 03, 2009 7:38 am**

That's awesome, Sly. LOVE it! =D>

Posted: **Sun Dec 13, 2009 3:17 pm**

Latest one, just finished today, still need to clean it up.I call it Stück der Hand. I am in a skeleton theme still.

Posted: **Sun Dec 13, 2009 6:36 pm**

^^that's awesome!!..Nice work man.

Posted: **Sun Dec 13, 2009 7:19 pm**

Ryno wrote:^^that's awesome!!..Nice work man.

Thanks, perhaps I can get one of my hubcaps in Colin's book. Peter Aschwanden I am not, and no where near Colin in detailing, but hey this is ODD ART!

Posted: **Sun Dec 13, 2009 7:51 pm**

fabulous skeleton.

Posted: **Mon Dec 14, 2009 12:27 am**

skin daddio wrote:fabulous skeleton.

Downright Deadian.

That's my favorite so far!

-John

Posted: **Mon Dec 14, 2009 2:45 pm**

that and yellow submarine was up there. i see we have ourselves a legit hubcap artist. cool thread. retrorific.

Posted: **Tue Dec 15, 2009 12:48 pm**

LiveonJG wrote:
skin daddio wrote:fabulous skeleton.
Downright Deadian.

-John

I have done it before, I used to paint patches for jackets, and did this one years ago.

And no, I never could paint humans, stick figures sure, but especially no dames.

Posted: **Tue Dec 15, 2009 12:52 pm**

And this one, from the 414th Bomb Group in Europe, sort of a wing and a prayer moment.

Posted: **Wed Dec 16, 2009 1:13 pm**

Sylvester wrote:
LiveonJG wrote:
skin daddio wrote:fabulous skeleton.
Downright Deadian.

-John
I have done it before, I used to paint patches for jackets, and did this one years ago.

And no, I never could paint humans, stick figures sure, but especially no dames.

Fitting for a skeleton, that is the Dead Man's Hand, is it not? Aces and Eights? In college I was in a band named Dead Man's Hand.

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