Stickers

Billy's bass has a number of distinctive stickers on it. Reproducing these was a challenge that I'd need to tackle asap, so lets get it out of the way while we're waiting for the parts to arrive.

The two stickers on the front are pretty similar - a skull logo. putting Skull into google image didn't help much, but searching for the text "Bones brigade" showed we were in skateboard territory. Searching for Skull and Skateboard, got us there pretty quickly. It turns out that the stickers are from the Powell Skateboard makers, and they're associated skate team. It's generally refered to as the Powell Ripper. Maybe that's obvious to a lot of people, but I'm not a skater, so this was a major breakthough.

The coloured skull was pretty easy to get. An almost identical sticker was easilly availble from online skate shops, and ebay. The B&W image was more tricky. Getting close was pretty easy now we know it's the Powell Ripper. It's generally listed as the Powell Winged Ripper, and again stickers are easily available. Trouble is they're COLOUR, and much higher quality that the messed up one on Billy's bass.

My solution was to download the coloured image, and photoshop it to better match Billy's The result isn't identical as I chose not to move the wings (which are higher up on the original), but it looks pretty good, and I don't think I could do as good a job if the wings were moved. It will be printed onto waterslide transfer paper, and sprayed with acrylic varnish.

On the back there's a large red dragon. Now we know Billy's love of all things Powell it was pretty easy to track down the rear sticker as the "Powell Peralta Oval Dragon" - available from all good skate shops.

That leaves one stiker unidentified - a small BW sticker on the back of the bass. The letters S A D are visible, which stands for Skate And Destroy. However thats where we hit a dead end. It appears to be some kind of bat/dragon. Again it's a candidate for a home made sticker, but so far I don't have a good picture of it. If that's the worst problem we have, then I can live with it.

So thats the stickers pretty well covered - two easily purchased, and one that I can make.

Hopefully some stuff should arrive tomorrow.