testing the ride

Meet the man who was not afriad to run the frist test of the soapbox car thats going to kick ass at the derby, Ryan Myers.

Well today was the frist day we tested the car and everything worked out great, brake lines worked and streeling after so much work building and rebuilding. It came togetther perfect. we ran about 7 times. Each time everything was as fun as the frist. I have a few thing's to work on but aslide from that i can start the body soon.

Making the brakes

So now it came time to build the brakes. I had this design in my head for a while so it wasnt a big deal to make. Just had to find all the wood i need for it.

I took a pair brakes off an old bike i found and installed into the soapbox car. I had to make a few adjustment cause they werent designed to fit into soapbox car, but it worked out.

I bought a new line wire cause i had to cut the old one in order to remove them form the bike. Plus they were old nd i didnt trust them to work.

All together everything worked out great. You just push down on the lever and the brakes stop the back wheel. At least i hope it does.

making the chair

So after building the wooden chasir i decided to add some comfort to it.so i bought some foam tube used for kids when they going swiming in pools. which only cost me 2 dollars and cut it up in piece's to make the edges for the chair and the design in the middle. Then i used this foam in a can to spray in and around the chair to fill the spaces to complete the chair. then i had to shave it down till it was even all over.It all took about two hours to do.

Munny doll

So here a project that i've been wanting to start for a while now. Now paint them ur self Vinyl toy called Munny. Ive seen different ones painted in different styles. Most are done in a cartoon style and usally looks great ( http://www.rmyersart.com/munnypage.htm ). I dont really do cartoon type things so i decided to use my style in landscape painting which seems to get alot of notice.


I satrted off with a drawing to help me work out my idea Then i move on to drawing on the munny it self.Till i have what i want and begin the next stage.

Here's a closer view of what the doll will look like.

soapcar (building the chair)

Ok so this week i got a chance to build the chair for the the car,because i wasnt having any luck finding a chair already made the i could just retro fit in there. Well it only took me two hours to build that. just was a hot day in that work shop.
And i also had a chance to work on the supports to hold the body shell which comes later.

New website

Ok so i have my new site up for my art work. And i plan to write in this as much as i can letting everyone know what projects im upto.

Soapbox racer

So I,ve decided to join a saopbox car derby.WHY? Just because i've alway's want to build a saopbox car and growing up in the Bronx i never really had a chance to. So now that im 30 years old and live upstate. I've been given a Opportunity to build one and be apart of event that people will come and see what i made.

These photo's show what stage im at right now and little by little i'll keep posting more.