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What's a Mad Max inspired battle car without a roof hatch? For me, incomplete! Starting with a newish 55 gallon drum, I cut off both ends; one 4" from the rim and the other 2" from the end. The longer one will become the frame for the hatch, the part that surrounds you when you stand in the hatch, shielding you from the knife edge of the car's top. A front end collision using no framing would result in a person being sliced in half. To prevent the warping of the overall shape of the hatch, the end cap is left in place until after the welding is completed. Then the metal inside the ring will be jigsawed out, to be used as material for the ha

The more Desert Sand paint I smear on the '72 Mercury Marquis de Sade, the (thermally) cooler it gets! May the lovers of flat black vehicles enjoy them as much as possible; I just can't stand the heat. My cool bright orange gas tank faded into an icky pink color so I painted the top surface with the last of the Krylon mossy camo color. I used (again) Krylon's olive/forest green camo from there on down. The desert sand color worked really well in throwing light around the interior of what was the trunk. It's much easier now to see where to put your feet or find something on the floor of the compartment. I used the darker green on the tops o

Blue is just not a color that resonates with me for a Mad Max inspired art car. The new movie, "Fury Road", will premiere on May 15th, of 2015. From the few pix that have been leaked from the movie, I have spotted a greater military influence than the "cobbled together" look of Road Warrior and Thunderdome. Yesterday I started painting the interior of the deSade. I used Krylon's "mossy" light green color, which is the closest I can find to the "mint" color used inside armored vehicles. It took 2 cans to provide 2 good coats to all 4 doors. Note the icky blue color on the floor in the lower left. That color is not suitable in a Mad Max inspi