Show us your Van

welcome to another Mandy. Your van should come to the next VCV meeting which is 1st thursday of each month at 68 Warrigal Rd Oakleigh (under the overpass), starts 8:00pm. You should come too and introduce yourself.
Marion

Hi Mandy and welcome, Love the van, its great to have another girl vanner on deck, hope you have a lot of fun

Thanks vanners, it's nice to be involved!
What goes on at the VCV meeting? You probably have a website or something yeah.

At the VCV meetings we sort out events, runs, workout more ways to promote vanning, meet & greet so its quiet an easy going club.
you are able to come along to a couple of meetings without joining to see if you like it and also great place for help and advice.

VCV's web site is: www.vanning.org

cheers
Daz
Vice Pres.

Welcome MANDY to our forum.Hope you enjoy your time here.
Your van has come up a treat.

AGRO wrote:I suppose i should update my pics. seeing that the bad weather put a downer on it's first showing.

Is this painted in Acrylic? If so I gather by the lack of shine you haven't put clear on it yet?

Obviously Original sin, you havent seen it in the flesh yet. It was sitting under a tree when the pics were taken on an overcast day, but she shines all right, saw it in the flesh last weekend, and she looks sweet

Devilsgrip wrote:

Mexican wrote:Thanks Daz,
Good from far but far from good hey. All I need to do now is the exhuast, and the whole thing will be as I want it, and no longer someone elses creation.
mex

Hey Mex, got any pics to show us . I thought your van looked alright, but I have not seen many pics. SO inform me..... Please

Hi Devilsgrip,
Hate to dissapoint AGRO, but I dont have that many, here are the better ones I have.


Taken alongside Nowra River north side in Feb


inside


Cracks I'm getting removed now.


Taken at Taren point looking back towards wollongong

Hi Mandy,
Cool HJ. The Vic Van Council are a friendly bunch, plenty of cool vans.
cheers mex

You didn't disappoint me Mex

Hey Mex that is one cool ride, it looks tops, well done.

AGRO wrote:Predator - as in:
Predator
Predator 2
Alien V's Predator
Alien V's Predator Requim
Alien V's Predator Redemption

Just had another thought if you're still lookin for ideas on murals etc, go to Google Images and type in Alien or whatever and it'll bring up sh1tloads of pics. Not sure if you were aware of that or not, if not then good, if you were then, u know already hehehehehe
Not that i'm a keen mural person, oh no not me

Yes i have searched thanks Maz.
I am also on 2 Predator forums.

hahah thay have more then one forum for that

There is 2 but i did hear of a 3rd mentioned somewhere (i'll just have to find it)

i know it's not easy to decide on a pic either, you really need to think about it cos, unless you're made of money, you're stuck with it for a while (years) at least. And another thing to consider (this I learnt from living with an artiest), it should of course match colour/interior, but also suit the shape of the vehicle. Before i finally decided on this one (view avatar to the right), i had a couple of others, which would not lend themselves to be murals on vehicles due to details, size, colour and shape of the pic etc. if you can get yourself photoshop, you can play around and place pics over a pic of your van and see what it looks like, if that's too complicated, get some to do it for you. Anyhow, it's loads of fun and i can honestly say i'm still proud of the bonnet and am glad we had it done (well, the ex did it for me). By the way, if you're going to use another's artwork, it may be copyrighted so be careful, we actually changed a few things from the original so copyright no longer mattered. Just things to consider, some don't and don't have problems, i dread the day someone does.

i go on holidays on the 4/10/08 and back to work onthe 13/10/08 so i wont be near a computor until then hopefully i should have more photos after the 13/10/08 if the weather is kind to me i should have the body painted most of the small fiddly bits have been done top tailgate goes to obriens to put the bubble window put in and the bottom one goes to maitland next wed to have mural put on it and while im waiting for paint to harden up before i buff it i might have ago at the diy chrome plating kit i bought thanx wizard

Look forward to seeing that Steve.
What's this about a diy chrome kit??

AGRO wrote:Look forward to seeing that Steve.
What's this about a diy chrome kit??

havent tried it yet bought from a place in wa when the part is plated it is meant to give the illusion of chrome i will try it on some pieces that i have spares of so that way if i wreck it i still have the other to paint up thanx wizard

be interesting to see what it's like and how long it lasts - can you post some pics so we can see how effective it is?
ta

Anyone hear if this diy chrome kit can be purchased from the east coast somewhere ??????

cant wait till Vandil post some pics of his very neat fresh van.. it is sweet..

mazdragon wrote:be interesting to see what it's like and how long it lasts - can you post some pics so we can see how effective it is?
ta

i will do that i dont think you can buy it any more i think he might of done a runner i found it in a magazine and got it over the net the placewas called eplate it is done with a few 25lt buckets fish tank heater and air aggitator distilled water powersupply and some chemicals i bought for $700.00 the same bloke was selling custom candy paint, hopefully it will work to some extent if not im done the crapper 700 big ones and mrs wizard wont be to happy but that wont be the first time thanx wizard

hello this is my van some may have seen it before but for those how havn't its a 78 Transit Sundowner

Hey Sundowner, how you been mate?