Post #496464 by Mr. Pupu Pants on Mon, Nov 30, 2009 2:26 PM

Hi Mike!
For the airplane 'skin', I actually bought some rolled aluminum flashing and drilled and riveted it myself. I'm going to add a hint of some airline paint stripes to it as well --- although I don't think they'll be all that noticable once it is distressed and 'shredded' (but I'll notice them) :)

On another note---this is a good time for me to toot your horn as a generous and creative tiki friend.

In an earlier post, I had mentioned that I was planning to have a video monitor running aerial footage within the porthole window of the airplane seating area. Well, Mike took it upon himself to create an awesome set of 'aerial' clips by building a miniature airplane wing (complete with Hula Sue moniker and engine), shooting it as a 'window P.O.V.' and adding sound effects and captain.s announcements. Over the course of several weeks , I received several DVDs of 'flight' footage (daytime, sunset and night time with clouds) in the mail. How's that for tiki community spirit and generosity? Mike, I know you did it for fun but it was also very kind and meant alot. Thank you again, kind Sir!!!

Oop, had to edit and add one thing -- Thank you Amy! I'm sure enjoying watching what you're doing with your new treehouse 'village'. It is beyond cool :)

[ Edited by: Mr. Pupu Pants 2009-11-30 14:38 ]