Hey !

 Don't forget the coffee cup rings and the oil and grease spots as well .

Wow! That really looks fantastic and real. I can't wait for you to get the entire garage done. This is going to be boss.

Thanks Bish, Gamera and armor nut. I've been having a pretty good time with this one. I've put this build off for what seems like forever and I'm glad it's under way so I can have something besides a white background to photograph all my finished builds now.

That does exclude aircraft builds you know.

Your evil, PURE EVIL LOL LOL, now I'm hungry AND want a Snap On tool box LOL. That looks awesome so far. ONLY KIDDING about the evil stuff, my sense of humor is returning so, can't wait to see the next update. I agree BTW with taking the top off, the tools looked "moulded" into instead if hanging in the box.

I love how that came out Mustang! 

Now that is looking the buisness Joe.

Thank you all for the comments Joe, armornut, Martin and Gamera.

I got the black top cut, painted and applied to the top of the tool box. I also got my laptop painted and applied BMF in the areas where the "intel inside" and "Dell" stickers were below the keyboard. I took a picture of a screensaver on my "real" laptop that has my favorite photo of my wife and son at the beach here in Corpus , sized it down to 2% and printed it on photo paper then cut it out and adhered it to the laptop monitor then glued that to the top of the tool box. I also cut out, folded and glued the paper bag for the burgers and fries together and glued that to the top of the box. Burgers, fries and some tools coming soon........

Good choice removing the top piece, can't even tell it was there. That will make a nice addition.

Not a full time car builder but I do enjoy a garage dio, so much detsil that can be added. I too will be checking the WIPs.

What an outstanding project Joe. This will be an immense amount of fun to watch you put together. Knowing you, it's going be loaded with fun siruprises and details. Yup, I'm on board for this.

Very cool Mustang! 

I have to agree, molded on parts like those tools always look pretty awful. I've tried adding a heavy wash to make them stand out but I like your idea better. 

Thanks Bakster!!

Yeah, this should be a cool build. 

LOL! Thanks Greg! 

Technically this is cheating but I'm making a change or so to it. I picked this tool box up from Ebay:

However I did NOT like the molded in tools and I'm not a big fan of a "hutch" installed on the tops of these style of boxes. To begin with the kit supplied tool box I   1.) don't like that style of box and 2) it aint a Snap-On box and 3.) I cannot stand those molded in tools as it looks waaaay cheap. I like the "taco wagon" style boxes so this was the only one I saw that was a Snap-On box so I set out to make a change. I cut the hutch off and sanded the top of the box smooth so one couldn't tell there was ever a hutch there to begin with.

I'll be placing a laptop on the top of the box along with a bag and drink from a local burger joint to start with. I may put a tool or two on top as well. I might place either a mat or a stainless steel top on it too. I'll see what else I can come up with........

Leave it to you to come up with something completely different. 

Should be fun.

Bish

Looks interesting, a lot of options for dirtying that up.

 

Looks interesting, a lot of options for dirtying that up.