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Otto66
06-23-2006, 06:40 PM
... after the accident.
http://misheli.image.pbase.com/u48/wyk/large/35482753.Hellboy.jpg
Nice job on the logo. Too bad about the car.
Nick W
06-24-2006, 01:05 AM
Luckily, everything to fix it can be found on eBay. :p
Otto66
06-24-2006, 06:07 PM
Luckily, everything to fix it can be found on eBay. :p
HAHAHAHAHAHA!:D

I find it odd that someone who had a Hellboy logo painted onto their car
wouldn't have come to this forum to post a picture when it was new.
Figure if ya Google Hellboy that the website would come up along with the
forum link. Hmmm...
Maija
06-25-2006, 05:34 PM
What the heck are you two talking about? :confused:
Andrew Hein
06-25-2006, 05:57 PM
What the heck are you two talking about? :confused:


I was having the same thought. Hehe
morna
06-25-2006, 06:04 PM
oh, pfffft! It's obvious... Nick has this car, white, kind of a boxey design, and it got killed so he painted a red "X" on it. Then someone on e-bay saw it and offered him a lot of money.... and Otto thought it was really funny that someone on e-bay would think a red "X" looks like a hellboy logo.

see? hahaha red "X" sigh
Jake Capps
06-25-2006, 06:04 PM
I would love to see a picture of that car!:D
jnapper
06-25-2006, 06:20 PM
What the heck are you two talking about? :confused:

I was thinking the same thing, so I looked at the code of Otto's posting. There is an img link of http://misheli.image.pbase.com/u48/wyk/large/35482753.Hellboy.jpg
that for some reason is not showing up for me in Firefox, Opera, or Netscape.

In IE, it shows as a little "broken image" icon, but for the other browsers, there's no broken image indicator, so I wouldn't have even know it was there without looking at code.

However, I cut and paste the URL in and the image shows up-- might be a glitch with CBR, but more likely it is a "no-remote hosting" image.

In any case, try to cut and paste the URL above.
Otto66
06-25-2006, 06:21 PM
Well... um... there should have been an image in the first post.
It was of a blue car, what had the Hellboy logo on its hood with
a Texas license plate. The car had been in an accident and the hood
was damaged. A search on Ask.com should lead ya right to it.

Hack Wilson is the ebay name of a Hellboarder from Texas.
And.. hey... OWW... who the hell are you guys? No... wait.. I was just.......
(NOTE:THE EXPLAINATION FOR THIS POST HAS BEEN FOUND TO
BE NONSENSICAL AND THE POSTER HAS BEEN DEALT WITH.)
jnapper
06-25-2006, 06:23 PM
Let me try uploading here...
Otto66
06-25-2006, 06:26 PM
Thanks, Lady J.:o
Maija
06-25-2006, 06:40 PM
HA!

Thanks, jnapper. Nothing showed up in my browser (Firefox) so it just looked like Otto and Nick were communicating telepathically or in secret code. :)
hellboyone
06-25-2006, 07:18 PM
Yeah...I've been wondering about this thread all week (also on Firefox). :)
Otto66
06-25-2006, 07:35 PM
...communicating telepathically...
Naw, when ya read Nick's mind the only thing that comes up
is "Lone Star".:D
Sparky
06-25-2006, 08:04 PM
Whew! I thought this thread was part of some obscure Da-Vinci-Code-type puzzle.

If it's real, the logo was probably just printed onto vinyl and cut out (I used to work at a sign shop, and that's how we did it). You can put just about any image on a car that way...you could easily put Petersen's entire Mouse Guard walking across the roof, or a huge rutabaga on the hood. Sweet!

I put Space Invaders on mine (http://www.phobe.com/invaders.jpg)
Otto66
06-25-2006, 11:35 PM
Sparky?
So a comic page could be blown-up and printed to vinyl?
Sparky
06-26-2006, 12:38 AM
Sparky?
So a comic page could be blown-up and printed to vinyl?
Sure*. It's basically just a big ol' printer that prints onto a roll of vinyl, then cuts it out with a little computer-controlled blade. I have a small 18" printer/cutter, but sign shops have really big ones. The vinyl and ink are rather costly, though, so it's not cheap to do (I generally only cut stuff out of solid-color vinyl, as the print cartridges are so $%#?@ing expensive).

But yeah, technically, you could cover your entire car with an entire issue of Flaming Carrot if you wanted to, provided you left a small space in the front windshield so you could see out to drive.

*with permission of the copyright holder, of course.

AAAAH I HAVE DRIVEN THIS THREAD OFF A CLIFF AND INTO A HORRIFIC DISCUSSION OF SIGNMAKING TECHNIQUES
Neil Hill
06-26-2006, 08:05 AM
Thanks Jonell for clearing up that confusion regarding the pic.

Nice Hellboy movie logo! Car needs some body work though. :D
Otto66
06-26-2006, 07:08 PM
AAAAH I HAVE DRIVEN THIS THREAD OFF A CLIFF AND INTO A HORRIFIC DISCUSSION OF SIGNMAKING TECHNIQUES
Not to worry. It's an OT thread and your info helps to explain just
how the car-owner could have had it done.
But my first thought was that it was a paint job. And wouldn't that
be cheaper than vinyl?