Thread: Hey Dayton

If your lad is serious and wants to be jet fighter next year...

We used Xerox boxes as the foundation for building. The bulk of construction is done in cardboard with a hot glue gun(cuz it's fast). We found very few limitations in what we could do in cardboard if we had more time. After final construction I/we primed them in Behr white ceiling paint.

We added a store bought bell to the Loco, and a multicolored jack-o-latern LED light, the rest was trash we scrounged. The lens for the light was a Sunny D bottle (the bottom). The coal was packing peanuts broke in half, then glued with water based contact cement(dip and stick) to a foam board, and was painted in Krylon H20 gloss black. The main body was done in Krylon black indoor/outdoor.

The jet fighter was more complicated but doable. I had to break out stuff from my junk boxes and found a well suited rocker switch, and a used LED light strip from an emergency exit sign powered by a 9v batt. This allowed Justin to "hit the afterburners" for admirers.

Here you can see some curious children picked at the coal thinking it was real.

Man, that is tweaking Awesome. My son is gonna lke it when he sees this. Your kids have a Rocking Dad!

Dayton