{"id":312,"date":"2008-11-15T15:29:44","date_gmt":"2008-11-15T13:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/?p=312"},"modified":"2008-11-15T15:31:52","modified_gmt":"2008-11-15T13:31:52","slug":"beetle-fever-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/?p=312","title":{"rendered":"Beetle fever, Painting."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Well a lot is happening but nothing worth blogging about. After finally getting the nose cone out of the bubble wrap i found it dented \ud83d\ude41 but a few hits with the rubber mallet popped it back out. but onto this weeks topic.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment I&#8217;m working for my company as a contractor for the defence force here in S.A (It support), and i came across this dude in V.I.C who was playing around with spray painting pictures. I dropped him an email and asked if he felt up to the challenge of doing a beetle related pic. Next day i had an email from him containing two pictures entitled &#8220;Work In Process&#8221;;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/photo0726.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-309\" title=\"photo0726\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/photo0726-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/photo0726-500x375.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/photo0726.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ee; text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/photo0727.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-306\" title=\"photo0727\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/photo0727-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/photo0727-500x375.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/photo0727.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I thought these were awesome, then on the Monday after the weekend i got a post letting me know he had finished the pictures, again with the two images included.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/photo0733.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-307\" title=\"photo0733\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/photo0733-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/photo0733-500x375.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/photo0733.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/photo0737.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-308\" title=\"photo0737\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/photo0737-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/photo0737-500x375.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/photo0737.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How awesome are they?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway next issue find out how to get them from Vic to here without them breaking (they are done on MDF so could be easily broken).<\/p>\n<p>Will keep you updated.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well a lot is happening but nothing worth blogging about. 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