I had been thinking about getting my child a car bed for some time and then thought one day "I wonder if there are any NSX beds out there?". A vast search of the internet revealed nothing, but the Little Tykes beds were a pretty similar shape/body lines (to an extent). So as I was thinking "I'll just turn one of these into an NSX, I stumbled across cmc140's build(s) and with his perfect execution I decided to create my own for my son!
cmc140's link:http://www.nsxprime.com/forum/showt...car-bed-project-Part-Deux?highlight=child+bed
On to my progress;
The first paint I bought was Valspar for plastic. It sucked. Covered like crap and almost had a pearl color to it. I was NOT happy. After going through 4 cans of it, I could still see through it. It covered like CRAP!
Then, yesterday I bought some Rustoleum with a trigger on the can and a red tab you take off. Coverage was OK, but both the cans I tried (and didn't use much of) ended up with paint running down my hand because of the piss poor design). SOOOO off to the Ace Hardware my Uncle-In-Law runs. Boom, Rustoleum Gloss White 2X Coverage. Traditional spray can style. Covered AWESOME and worked really well. In the spots that the bed was still completely red, you could lay down 1 pass and it would be 99% covered w/out running.
I don't have any pics until I taped off the bed to paint the spoiler and front grille
Then for the vents in the side, I didn't feel like trying to tape off two identical vents. So, I drew a template and cut it out. Placed it on some black duct tape I had and cut those in the correct shape I wanted and used them as "decals" for the vents. The Honda emblems are a cheap set off Amazon.com as well as the BBS (knockoff) center caps on the wheels to cover up the screw that holds them on. I figured I'd go with the BBS caps since they sort of resemble LM's (to an extent). The caps come in a concave shape, so I took a piece of round stock steel on a clean spot on the garage floor and rolled it over them to flatten them back out.
Here she is all finished and sitting next to my car
We are going to bring him to daycare for a bit today while we do some stuff around the house (clean - maybe I can get that mess of a garage cleaned up too!) and set the bed up in his room while he is there. Hopefully he'll be as excited as can be. Afterall, he is the definition of a car guy @ only 22 months old...
(he actually browses through the pages and will point at pictures, look at me and ask "what's that?". So, I explain to him what it is and if I have time before he asks me about another item will tell him what its for.
For a rather simple project, this was fun! Although the running around because of crappy paint wasn't... He'll be the only kid on the block with an NSX, just like his old man
cmc140's link:http://www.nsxprime.com/forum/showt...car-bed-project-Part-Deux?highlight=child+bed
On to my progress;
The first paint I bought was Valspar for plastic. It sucked. Covered like crap and almost had a pearl color to it. I was NOT happy. After going through 4 cans of it, I could still see through it. It covered like CRAP!
Then, yesterday I bought some Rustoleum with a trigger on the can and a red tab you take off. Coverage was OK, but both the cans I tried (and didn't use much of) ended up with paint running down my hand because of the piss poor design). SOOOO off to the Ace Hardware my Uncle-In-Law runs. Boom, Rustoleum Gloss White 2X Coverage. Traditional spray can style. Covered AWESOME and worked really well. In the spots that the bed was still completely red, you could lay down 1 pass and it would be 99% covered w/out running.
I don't have any pics until I taped off the bed to paint the spoiler and front grille
Then for the vents in the side, I didn't feel like trying to tape off two identical vents. So, I drew a template and cut it out. Placed it on some black duct tape I had and cut those in the correct shape I wanted and used them as "decals" for the vents. The Honda emblems are a cheap set off Amazon.com as well as the BBS (knockoff) center caps on the wheels to cover up the screw that holds them on. I figured I'd go with the BBS caps since they sort of resemble LM's (to an extent). The caps come in a concave shape, so I took a piece of round stock steel on a clean spot on the garage floor and rolled it over them to flatten them back out.
Here she is all finished and sitting next to my car
We are going to bring him to daycare for a bit today while we do some stuff around the house (clean - maybe I can get that mess of a garage cleaned up too!) and set the bed up in his room while he is there. Hopefully he'll be as excited as can be. Afterall, he is the definition of a car guy @ only 22 months old...
(he actually browses through the pages and will point at pictures, look at me and ask "what's that?". So, I explain to him what it is and if I have time before he asks me about another item will tell him what its for.
For a rather simple project, this was fun! Although the running around because of crappy paint wasn't... He'll be the only kid on the block with an NSX, just like his old man
