Starting with Mac with his trusty SAK and duct tape leaning on the complete series DVD set
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| Posted by: Mac2Nite 15 December 2014 - 11:57 AM |
| OK.. I get a little obsessive about things... especially since my husband and I both retired...and to highlight how far I'll go... we have many built-in bookcases covering many walls and of course we have hundreds of books and DVD sets filling those shelves. Not happy to just put the DVD & Book sets on the shelves... I also have to add things that tie in to the show or book series. Here are a few of them... Starting with Mac with his trusty SAK and duct tape leaning on the complete series DVD set |
| Posted by: Mac2Nite 15 December 2014 - 11:58 AM |
| Here is my Indiana Jones homage... to include some crystal skulls |
| Posted by: Mac2Nite 15 December 2014 - 12:02 PM |
| Although I have all of the Bones Series DVDs, I also have all of Kathy Reichs' books [started reading her Bones books before there was a TV series], so I decided to make the homage on the shelf containing her books... [and yes... that's a real[vintage] human hand on the left on top of the books... |
| Posted by: Mac2Nite 15 December 2014 - 12:08 PM |
| My younger daughter Misha is an English Teacher [and someday a published writer I hope] and one of her favorite authors is Philip Pullman [His Dark Materials]. While studying for her Masters in Youth Literature she travelled to London and met with him [actually lunched with him and had a wonderful Q&A session with him]... so I dedicated one shelf to a photo of her with him [she seems to be gazing at him with such affection... LOL] and his books, an alethiometer and my ancient portable typewriter... |
| Posted by: Mac2Nite 15 December 2014 - 02:38 PM |
| Twilight Zone homage... |
| Posted by: KiwiTek 16 December 2014 - 12:42 AM |
Very cool collections, but that first one is just awesome!  |
| Posted by: Walter 16 December 2014 - 02:26 AM |
| Very impressive. Where did you get that MacGyver figure from? I want one! |
| Posted by: Mac2Nite 16 December 2014 - 08:20 AM |
The Mac figure goes like this: you start with a GI Joe* with poseable fingers & remove his head [ouch!], a vintage Backstreet Boys' Nike sneakers & doll head that you carve to look like Mac [I think it was a Backstreet Boys doll but I could be wrong... it's been years since I bought those dolls for my daughters.. I know the Val Kilmer doll I carved was from a Backstreet Boys doll... that one is buried in a box in the basement somewhere]... add a Mattel Harley Davidson Ken doll's clothes [since they're somewhat baggy they hide the overly-muscled GI Joe doll physique...LOL], paint over the Harley logo on the while sleeveless shirt, print out a tiny version of the Challengers' Logo and glue that over the painted area on the shirt. Then you take a small piece of metal tubing & wind a skinny piece of duct tape around it [or just forget the tubing and make it flat like Mac did]. Cut the knife out of tin & paint it to look like a SAK & glue a tiny Victorinox logo to it...and voila... you have a Mac doll.  *The GI Joe body works the best because the arms, wrist & fingers are poseable so he can hold things & the body is multi-positional so you can position his legs/feet to imitate the way Mac would stand. |
| Posted by: Jediferret 16 December 2014 - 01:19 PM |
Very impressive! I like the Indiana Jones one as well.  |
| Posted by: Mac2Nite 21 December 2014 - 04:59 PM |
Thanks I'm currently working on Scully & Mulder for our X-Files shelf. Mattel made X-Files dolls back in 1997 but didn't bother to make them look like the actual actors [they look like Barbie & Ken instead], so that is my challenge... to carve the faces just right [using a SAK of course] or they're ruined   |
| Posted by: Kristelle 8 May 2015 - 02:48 AM | ||
 wonderfull! I like your doll, although it looks a little too angry for my taste. I love your Indy shelf too, nice style! |
| Posted by: Mac2Nite 2 October 2015 - 06:34 PM |
New addition to the MacGyver shelf... found it while I was cleaning out some boxes in the basement [old McDonald's Hockey Puck... with a few changes]   |
| Posted by: Barry Rowland 2 October 2015 - 08:27 PM |
| Great job Mac2nite! I like your ingenuity! |
| Posted by: Mac2Nite 4 October 2015 - 07:22 AM |
| Thanks |
| Posted by: Joe SAKic 4 October 2015 - 09:15 AM |
| Very creative! I have a massive puck collection but nothing quite like that! How exactly did you MacGyver it? |
| Posted by: Mac2Nite 4 October 2015 - 09:29 AM |
| Thanks!! I just blacked out with paint where "cDonalds" was printed through the "M" arches and painted in "acGyver" , being sure to get the capital G where they had the capital D |
| Posted by: Viriato 6 October 2015 - 05:26 AM |
Amazing!  I would never thought of doing something like that! Just love the creativity you have put on decorating those shelves! |
| Posted by: Mac2Nite 6 October 2015 - 05:39 AM |
Thanks so much . It's a lot of fun doing it.. and they make good conversation pieces when we have company over  |