shark car birthday present

[HereToScroll]

Hi all, 

 

I just finished this shark car, from team umi zoomi (my daughters favorite show), for her 2nd birthday present. It still needs some work, mostly minor, but this was the first project I've made tilting the cutting table on my saw and I learned alot doing so! I used screw eye hooks and cotter pins for the tail. Made with pine board. Also my first project using my dremel tool for alot of the shaping. 

I kind of liked sanding on this one. Very zen.

Enjoy! 

[rjR]

Unique--artistic-- Great toy!

[Rockytime]

You did great with that! I bet she loves it.

[spirithorse]

Cool project!
Thanks for sharing and God Bless! Spirithorse

[amazingkevin]

Jack of all and master of toys!!! You found you nitch !!!!

[Scrolling Steve]

Wow !...That is a keeper !

[daveww1]

very nice

[rdatelle]

You did a great job on it. She will love it.

[dgman]

Very cool project Chris! What is the opening on top for?

[HereToScroll]

The opening is for the toy characters of the show (geo, milli, and bot) to be able to ride in it.  One of my unfinished business is to make a divider  ("chairs") within that space for them to not jostle all around when played with. 

Another thing to do is to add a spacer to back wheels so they don't rub on the body when spinning. I found that to be a problem with the front wheels when I got those situated, so I added spacers for those, but with her birthday being yesterday I had to rush it a little bit for shark car to have come for her birthday (and stayed because he enjoyed it so much! ).

I'll post another photo with them in there when it's decked out all the way. They are the plastic characters that came with another umi zoomi toy. There isn't a "scale"shark car available for purchase so I made this, as is what she asked for. 

Looking back, her birthday was baby shark themed, so I should've painted it as a "baby shark car" to mesh the two together. But she did indeed love it! 

Thank you for asking. I hope y'all are well, and the best for everyone that has (and hasn't) read this thread! 

[wombatie]

Wow that is so cool.  You certainly went above and beyond, excellent work.

Marg

[Gordster]

Beautiful  project..

[heppnerguy]

nice job designing and going about bringing  your little girls dreams to a reality. It had to take a bit of thought as to how  you were even going to go about making this a reality and then you were able to finish it with a great paint job as well.  A tip of the hat goes to you

Dick

heppnerguy

[smitty0312]

I bet she will love it......A+

[Dragonkort]

im sure she just loved it!!!  I know you made the pattern as a toy, but just a thought here....I love plants and have tons of them....I was looking at your shark toy and when I saw the opening in it I thought that would make a great plant holder!!! you could either make it to hold plants by its self or you could make it to hold a small to med flower pot... or you could enlarge it and make an outside planter from it.... just some ideas I thought id toss out