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Sun Dec 27, 2009 8:30 pm

Hoodooman wrote: I'm the bus in front of the arch....

STL son!!!

Unless you just bought it, I think you are mistaken. You see, I did this some time ago and you joined the samba on December 09, 2009. As far as I can tell at this point you don't have an avatar

Mon Dec 28, 2009 3:36 am

Hi Mac.

You must of had lots of boring time to fill in, inbetween times. That took lots of working time to do. Excellent job though I don't think I would have the patients to do what you did.

Again excellent job!

Mon Dec 28, 2009 6:34 am

That is incredible could you add me please i would love to put that on my desktop.
Thank you much
brian

Mon Dec 28, 2009 7:03 am

mackmix wrote: BTW, I inadvertently added one bus twice. No one caught it :?: :?: :?:

Hey - I'm in there twice also!! Thanks for the props! :D

Mon Dec 28, 2009 10:31 am

JMazier wrote: Too cool! I was happy to see mine in there! My avatar picture was taken on an abandoned section of Rt 66.

Jerome, I thought I might have seen you in there!

Mon Dec 28, 2009 11:05 am

TreeHugger63 wrote: mackmix,

Do you know all the owners of the avatars? If so I am looking for 12 down and seven accross. I would like to get a full size pic of it. Its a white early bay tintop westy. I have been looking for a good pic to make a bay version of my avatar for some time now. If anyone knows who it is please chime in so, I can pm its owner. Maybe you should pm me.

This is it:

Thanks, TH

BINGO! Found him! Rob Weidman http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=135917

Mon Dec 28, 2009 11:32 am

I didn't make the cut! "tear!" : (
Maybe next year!

Mon Dec 28, 2009 12:03 pm

TreeHugger63 wrote: mackmix,

I would like to get a full size pic of it. Its a white early bay tintop westy. I have been looking for a good pic to make a bay version of my avatar for some time now. If anyone knows who it is please chime in

Thanks, TH

Hey Tree Hugger-
Can't tell much from the little pic but it looks like Polly's old '70. It doesn't have the front spare but is that a mount shown in the little pic? If it is the same one we would sure like to know. We've searched around for it quite a bit. You know how mom's are. When the kid moves out the Momma want's to know how he is doing. If it is the same one there are more pics in my gallery.

Mon Dec 28, 2009 10:29 pm

Way cool that is way busy hehe [/img]

Tue Dec 29, 2009 12:45 am

mackmix wrote: BINGO! Found him! Rob Weidman http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=135917

Hey mackmix... I PMed you back I got it and PMed Rob. He only has five pics and his avatar isn't one of them. If I can get an OG pic it will be easier to play with in paint. The avatar goes all fuzzy when I blow it up. Thanks for finding him for me. I hope he has that or other pics at that angle. Its almost perfectly aligned to the angle of the turtlebus pic. I think I can make it work.

Desertbusman wrote: Hey Tree Hugger-Can't tell much from the little pic but it looks like Polly's old '70. It doesn't have the front spare but is that a mount shown in the little pic? If it is the same one we would sure like to know. We've searched around for it quite a bit. You know how mom's are. When the kid moves out the Momma want's to know how he is doing. If it is the same one there are more pics in my gallery.

I don't think its the same one. Thats a VW emblem. Unless he removed the mount and fixed and covered the repair with the emblem. I will ask him if he ever answers my PM. Here is the only good pic of it in the 5 he has in gallery. Its a sweet ride. Its a 71 campmobile. Pollys looked sweet too. Good Luck in finding it. Don't you remember who bought it? If you do you could do a search on the white pages for their number and call em up. Do you have any with the tire off. I could probaly copy a VW emblem somewhere and paste it if again I can find the right angle.

Tue Dec 29, 2009 11:50 pm

Well, I did it!

I took the OG Turtle Bus Pic...

And Rob Weidman's Pic from his photobucket account...

And I used paint and alot of determination...

I think it came out pretty nice. I matched the color best I could to OG VW colors with the custom color option in paint. It took awhile but, I am satisfied with the results. And now I have a Turtle Bay Bus pic and a new avatar.

I would like to thank mackmix for finding RobWeidman. I would like to thank RobWeidman for sharing his photos of his sweet 71 campmobile. I would like to thank the unknown to me creator of the OG Turtle Bus Pic that has been so dear to my heart all these years. Thanks fellas I couldn't have done it without your help.

You might notice I made it a later bay. I was having trouble putting in the front turn signals down low because of the curve of the Turtles neck so, I opted for the late look.

L8tr y'all, TH

Sun Jan 03, 2010 11:56 pm

Updated version. I forgot the grill because it was a splitty and just didn't notice it at first. So I went back to my drawing and modified it. Here I hope is the final version...

I hope you guys like it.

L8tr, TH

Mon Jan 04, 2010 1:39 am

Very cool! Gr8 Job! For sure in the next update!!!!

Mon Jan 04, 2010 4:50 am

mackmix wrote: Very cool! Gr8 Job! For sure in the next update!!!!

Thanks mack!

TH

Mon Jan 04, 2010 2:14 pm

TreeHugger63 wrote: theizzardking wrote: hey hook me up in the pic! lol ;-)

Hey theizzardking,

Isn't that the cafe from 'Northern Exposure'? Its like near seatle right?

TH

yeah that would be in rosyln,wa about 1.5 hours east of seattle on i-90 near cle-elum and ellensburg, if you get out that way you should go on up to salmon la sac, amazing landscape! and about 15 minutes up the road from the cafe.

Sun Jan 31, 2010 11:04 pm

<-- Keep me in the updated one!

Sun Jan 31, 2010 11:18 pm

Hey I found my self! Glad I stumbled upon this thread!

Fri Sep 03, 2010 9:54 pm

Any updates cool work..

Sat Sep 04, 2010 10:10 pm

mackmix wrote: As far as resizing your avatar ... or I could just do it for you if you send me a picture.
The Avatart has been fun to make and I'm glad everyone is enjoying it. Cheers, Glen

Aloha Glen
I saw a post somewhere on resizing a photo, but can't locate it now. I'd like to use one of these two photos for an avatar, but they're too big.

Hope you have time to resize and to add more to your Avatart. I'd like to see some well known contributors in there that don't have a VW in their avatar, such as busdaddy, randy in maine, wild things, and others. These are the people that supply the knowledge and experience that keep our campers on the road.

Mahalo
tp

Sun Sep 05, 2010 3:48 pm

Finding one'self is one thing but losing one's self.. a closed mind is a beautiful thing to watse!