DubMissile™

Anaconda gets some new fangs!

2009-06-08T09:54:00.002+01:00

As you all may know, my VR has been nick-named the Anaconda. Why? I have no idea, which is kinda why I like it. Anyways, I use her every day, clock up some heavy miles and general use and abuse her. I do treat her occasionally to some sweet hoops or a subtle mod here and there but generally she gets whipped...looked after but whipped. So it was about she had some lovin. I toyed with the idea of getting rid and getting a 4mo, but, my buddy has an R32 so I couldn't compete which would really get on my chaps...Ana stays!! My engine has high miles and smokes like a dirty nun so rather than get a few things uprated and fixed I thought it best to just buy a new engine, well, 2nd hand but way newer than what I have.

No pics as yet, but me and my man Gilly (with the R32) are going picking up the new lump today which has 45k less miles, newish clutch, sump, oil pump, stainless 6 branch and timing chains and tensioners all done around 10k ago, which sounds like an awesome lifeline to me. This will all get shoehorned in within the next 2 weeks, I'll be atacking some of the rust on the arches with a diy approach, possibly roll the front arches (ghetto style), get the zorst sorted out with a bit of friendly help hopefully, then I got some sweet plans for the interior...can you say...custom DubMissile headliner? I think you can.

Watch this space for pics over the next couple of weeks.

Old School IS the best school.

2009-05-25T09:09:00.002+01:00

Now I love dubs, I really do, in fact I just love cars full stop if I'm honest whether it be a badass turbo'd VR or a blown R32 or a G60/G40 or a sick Jap drifter or some old school 70's/80's Ford or a sweet split camper or some sick yank muscle...the list goes on. So, when I went to Tescos yesterday to go shopping I nearly wet myself when I saw this guy and his lad topping up the radiator of this piece of awesomeness.

I didn't get to chat too much as he needed to go pretty sharpish once the rad was filled, but from what I could see it was a sweet old school Ford, roof chop and a small block v8 which sounded...well, I wished I'd have recorded it because it just made me smile from ear to ear and I'm pretty sure there was movement, if you know what I mean.

I did snatch a couple of dodgy phone pics and I'm sure you'll all agree that on a sunny day, surely the best thing to be cruising around in would be something like this.

OMFGzzzzzz!!!!

2009-05-20T15:31:00.002+01:00

Er, kinda pointless post without pics but something I've been working on may have moved on a few steps last night. Super excited and really wanna know if I can get it done. If it works out and I can get this 'product' done locally, and it is starting to look that way, I will have something that is effing awesome to offer over the summer that will look amazing.

I need to learn some stuff quick so I can make and fit a prototype.

Let's just say its something awesome, that looks awesome and will be offered as a fully custom item that you can have individually made for your ride.

Awesome. Seriously, awesome!!

All Types show.

2009-05-18T17:43:00.004+01:00

I'm not gonna write a War and Peace about how great the show was and how the whole weekend was a huge party and despite the rain everyone blew up...because...well, we only decided to 'pop' down on the Sunday for an hour at about 2pm so we missed all that stuff, PLUS I think we missed all the rain too as it was mad sunny when we arrived. So we had a Mr. Whippy before anything else.

Anyways, the show did look good, we did miss a lot of the cars as they'd gone by then but it was still a worthy ride out and if you like your dubs air and water cooled it's always worth a mooch.

I took a few dodgy snaps on the way round, last minute again. I didn't go round looking for the cray show cars, just what caught my eye casually.

Whenever I go here it always makes me realize just how much I want a splitscreen bus so me and my girl can look awesome and cruise around having free holidays.

We did pop to a local beach for half an hour though, which was amazing, even though it was rainy...in fact, that kinda made it even cooler. That and the million jellyfish we saw.

Possible new MK3 tee.

2009-05-18T17:05:00.005+01:00

I was playing around with something a bit more light-hearted so knocked up this 'Ich liebe meinen mk3' design which as I'm sure y'all know means I love my mk3 in German. I've recycled my old mk3 drawing for the time being but after some tweaks this will have a new drawing with more detail than the last one, a bit more effort is gonna come in to play from now on. And before anyone starts, the type was only knocked up so I know the letter spacings are all over the place but don't you worry my little cherubs, I'll be getting it all just nice before I go to print.

Ok, so the only pic I have is of me from the cold and rainy beach in Wales, on our way back from All Types show, which was cool (see new post). I just wanna get into the habit of letting you guys see what I'm up to more, it kinda softens the wait a bit in between tees. ** added new pic of actual design **

Lemme know if you think this should be a doer...should I be doing Ich leibe designs for all the mks? We'll see anyway, get a good spread of different styles up for different dubs so that there is at least something for everyone and not a tone of golf tees or mk3 tees.

Golf War syndrome.

2009-05-11T16:30:00.003+01:00

So, a bit removed from my current style of tee and a bit themed this one but I kinda like it. I'll probably only produce these in super limited numbers and this is a unique range to Golf owners although I assure you, the Rocco and Caddy is about get some seriously sweet love.

As you can see there are only 2 finished at the mo, the others have the graphic package done but the car illis need finishing off, once done there'll be a complete 'Golf War' set completed. Get it, golf...war...I know, pretty bad pun. Bad taste? I hope not.

These will be single colour on one stock only, the olive green for obvious reasons and there maybe a secondary graphic on there as a limited edition reference and to finish off the theme.

I've set up a work in progress side bar where I'll start to add images of any designs and products I'm in the middle of developing, gives you all something nice to look at while waiting for me to get things up for sale.

Please leave any comments, if you all say they're crap and you hate them, well I won't do em and they'll be super limited to one offs...just for me.

It's on!

2009-04-21T09:18:00.002+01:00

Ok sports fans, all sorted out, got a quote that I'm happy with from a company who can also supply the cool tees that I'm after. The first batch will be limited to just 50 tees of the Holy Hoops design to test the water, across a few colour options. This way I'll get a feel for which colours are most popular and it'll give me a chance to iron out any problems before the next batch of tees.

It's gonna be a good couple of weeks before they are printed and shipped to me but I'll post some snaps of the awesomeness when I'm ready to get em on the shop.

Not long now you crazy kids.

You know you've made it when...

2009-04-15T18:23:00.002+01:00

...someone on Ebay is selling one of your products!!

Check this out, I can't remember who I sent it to if I'm honest, I think it was an extra tee but still, someone should buy this for a tenner.

Ebay RARE!!

They aren't lying either, I don't do the six shooter back print anymore so this actually is a rare item.

Made me smile anyway.

On the verge.

2009-04-14T10:34:00.002+01:00

I'm in talks today with a couple of companies to take on my screen printing work for the tees. It'll be slow at first as I can only afford to produce one tee style a month so I'm tracking the new online shop to see which tees are the most popular from plain clicks and views, up to now it looks close between the Rado and Holy Hoops tees, followed by the 1976 mk1 tee. This means I'll be printing these up in order and like I say, one a month...although, if sales really take off I'll print the next tee once the monies are in the bank or some outstanding design invoices come in. I really want to get as much up as possible for you guys so you have the choices you deserve, so, each tee will be single colour prints but on a few different colours (whites, pinks, blues, yellows...) so everyone won't look like twins at the shows.

Sad times for the girls though, for now I'll be only printing up mens styles, but, the styles I'm picking are a real nice fitted and more fashionable tee so the smaller sizes will still look hot on you girls. Smaller tees and vests will be down the line.

Good times!

More shop updates.

2009-04-11T10:31:00.003+01:00

Getting my head round CSS coding at the moment, really need to learn that stuff for my job, but also I need it for my shop layout. It's starting to look more consistent now with the blog, good times!

Also, check out my Twitter account and follow me for any updates that I don't post on the blog. I've created a repeat pattern based on my Holy Hoops tee, I got some awesome plans for this down the line, just need to get a few things clarified before I post it up though.

Shop update!

2009-04-06T09:08:00.003+01:00

No, sorry, tees still aren't active yet as I don't have any stock but I've re-shot a couple of badge packs including the brand new 'hoops' badge packs and these are now up and active. I'm thinking of keeping it all random and making the badges collectible, plus, there may even be a special edition badge or two that are super limited.

More on that to follow!!

New Store.

2009-03-28T16:59:00.003Z

Well looks like I better get these tees printed asap as the store has already had a few curious visitors, thanks for the peeking guys, there are plenty changes to make yet and I'll be sorting out existing tee designs this coming week. All going to plan there'll be some buyables up there by next weekend.

The rim badge packs are pretty cool if I do say so myself...gotta collect em all!!!! Roflflflflflllolololozzzzzzer!!!!11111111

Big thanks to Kris too for being my guinea pig and buying his tee from the store, just to check it all works sweetly...which it does. Your tee will be winging its way early in the week brother!

Missile burner ignition imminent!!

16x9 envy.

2009-03-25T22:04:00.004Z

Bit delayed this one but seeing as I haven't posted any pics for a good while I thought I'd whack these up of my boy Chris' hard work. This is his mk3 tdi dirty dieseasel mobile which he's spent some time and effort attacking it with his ghetto engineering stick. Thing is, it looks sick but I'm kinda jealous because, being a VR owner means wide track, which also means 16x9's up front aren't really gonna work out.

So enjoy these two lonely snaps of his ghetto derv machine (first by Jez second by Chris Walker). I really need to take some pics of mine too now I have some 15x8s strapped on with looooow et. Poke? Yep. Awesome? Of course.

Missile locked and loaded.

2009-03-23T22:20:00.004Z

So, as you can see, I've revamped the main blog site a bit. Made the text a little bigger so it doesn't look lost and added some neat new header dividers which took me an age to play around with the html to figure it all out (I aint a coder). It looks a bit more complete now and solid, everything was kind floating around before which didn't work. I may have cluttered up a bit so there may be some font sizing to address, but, for now I like it a lot more than before. The DubMissile tab in the header is now active so you can use that to go 'home' from anywhere on the blog.

I'm also a Twitter saddo now too, got an account for my graphic design side of things Here so you can follow me if you like, plus, I've set up a Twitter account for DubMissile, to keep it all separate. You can follow that Here or check out the Twitter update thing in the right hand menu where you can click to follow.

So, new shop, restyled blog and Twitter. Time to concentrate on them designs and wallet manufacture now.

Shop progress.

2009-03-18T22:09:00.002Z

Quick update to show y'all I'm actually moving forwards. Here's the initial look of the new DubMissile online shop. There are only 3 products on at the moment, none for sale as I'll be updating these too and getting some new snaps of the new tees done so it all looks sexy. This is gonna be awesome as you can now select the different postage costs for UK or International so no need for messing about. I'll be upgrading my account once I've nailed it down as I can add a ton of product and add some more creative input to the template.

Progress my dear friends is being made...at last!!

Check it out: DubMissile Shop.

New shop on its way!!

2009-03-12T17:06:00.002Z

Ok, so the paypal storefront I had a while ago was pretty cool. problem with that was it slowed everything up and was a bit of a pain in the ass to do stuff with. So, I've created a new store at big cartel who provide a really nice service. I'll be working on that, cutomizing it all to make it look nice then add product pics and prices so you kids and go wild and buy stuff from me.

All going well this should make life easier all round.

Good times.

It's cooooooming!!

2009-03-02T00:08:00.002Z

There'll be a few changes around here over the next week or so as I have finally managed to jump back on the DubMissile wagon. So, after all my 'watch this space' and 'coming soon' messages there may actually be some progress being made. At last!!

I've got some big plans for the next few months, gonna finish up my new designs, bin some of the ones I currently have and replace them with newer and more 'worked' designs but none of this stock vector art slapping everywhere crap that everyone does. I'll also be launching a range of rim pin badges too, there are about 26 up to now, different colours with line work of your favourites rims. Collect em all!!!! Plus I think I've nailed the Tyvek paper wallets too so they'll be looking sweet sooner rather than later. I'll also be looking into a separate online shop with bigcartel or someone like that to make it super easy to sort out sales and stock. The paypal mini shop was cool but too laggy and didn't cater for overseas options.

My plan is to send a few packs out to the mags again, PVW were great when I first launched and I got a huge amount of exposure, same with Retro Cars too.

Anyways, enough bullshit and I'll be servicing you all with some awesomeness very soon.

Screen printers wanted!!

2009-01-22T11:43:00.003Z

No, this isn't necessarily a call out for new employees, as i don't have a screen printing set-up...yet. eventually I'd like to have a proper unit with all the gear to run a print outfit for all my projects, tees, clothing, posters...etc.

So, what do I want? Well, I'm speaking to a few at the moment but due to time I can't do everything so I need a decent screen printing company, local to the Bolton/Manchester/North West area to offer up their services to print small runs of tees for me.

This is basically I think out loud post as I do think I'm close to nailing this, but if anyone visiting fancies jumping on board I'd love to hear from you.

Be some cool stuff for your business folio and help me manage this year's ranges.

Woooooah, 2009!!

2009-01-14T11:01:00.002Z

I know, I know, I've been letting the missile slip so apologies to all those who've emailed requests through for tees and wallets. The design business has been mad busy with some major changes to how I run things already, even after just 4 months. This has meant the time I thought I'd have to spend refreshing the DubMissile product and designs has had to be put on the backburners for a short while, but not out of mind.

I'm currently in talks with a cool screen printers who have a sweet line in fluorescent inks and some nice garments to possibly get me on the right track of buying in some pre-printed stock rather than hand-make as per order. This is good all round as it will save me a ton of time when it comes to sorting out the tees and the print will be longer lasting so I really am thinking of you guys and gals, honest. This also means, depending on the overall costs involved, that the tees won't just be single colour on white, I'll be adding a bunch of bright colours and print colour options so you won't all look like clones.

My favourite catchphrase 'watch this space', but seriously, some very good things in the pipeline, they're just having to take a slow boat for a while.

I haven't washed the vr for about 4 months either. Dirty girl.

Don't poke fun at me!!

2008-11-23T10:04:00.002Z

November seems to be a month of progress with product and my vr. At the moment I'm playing with a few options in the rim department. Firstly, the Monzas (MK5 GTi rims) are currently sat in my buddy's garage, stripped and half sanded down waiting to be primed and rattle canned with some satin/matt black paint for some winter badass. Secondly, I got my hands on the 15" Revolution RFX rims, which I love But these are proving to give me a few problems. These are Audi fitment, 5x112, which aint a problem as I'm rolling adaptors anyways, but, they're 15x8 with some crazy low offset that I can't seem to find anywhere. What does this mean? Crazy poke, that's what that means!! I aint being defeated yet though. ideally I wanted to run some big rubber on em, 205/50s or something like that but I don't think they'll go in the arches, so, me and my boy Chris are looking into squeezing some 195/45s on there. Hopefully this won't mess the ride up or make the arch gap look like outer space.

Yet again, watch this space kids!!

More wallet progress!!

2008-11-22T22:54:00.000Z

Ok, so round 2 on the wallet front.

I refined the template a little to make them more sturdy and easier to make, which means that they're quicker to make which then means I can eventually sell these for a good price instead of being too expensive. This time I did a tighter design with the rim graphic smaller, with more rims. I kinda like this although to make it work 100% I think I need to lose the black areas, you can see how well the design works inside the middle (opened up area) with just full linework coverage. I'm still working on getting these printed up, hand drawing them takes forever which is fine at prototype stage but the quicker I can sort out the printing the quicker I can get some finished artwork up here. I'm aiming to get these packed with a header card and pin badge for that bit of extra DubMissile flavour!!

Watch this space even more kids.

New rimz test fit.

2008-11-16T16:53:00.003Z

Ok, so the Toyo R888s are pumped up to crazy hardness and are way fatter than regular 215s AND I won't even be rocking 215s anyway as they're way too wide for the arches, 205s all the way. All I need to do is decide whether to get 50 pro or 45 pro, just to be sure they fit under the arches. I knew they wouldn't fit but hey you gotta have a go right?

Once I get the right rubber on and set the ride height, should look pretty tidy for the next few months. S2s will be coming in for the winter for a spit and polish. Monzas are still getting blacked up but might never see daylight on the anaconda.

Should be a fun winter!

New stuff!!

2008-11-10T23:41:00.004Z

I'm thinking up a bunch of new DubMissile sexy products to get out there as well as tees. Now I'm not talking boggo standard crap products that were cool ten years ago or crap stuff that everyone else does, nooooo, you guys need something cool right? So, I've been working on some wallets. The one shown here is an early prototype, hand made, as everything I do is, and the rim design is a bit big so that needs some tweaking. Also, these will be printed properly before I start to make from my template, as this stands I've hand drawn the design using Sharpies finest.

If you're thinking it looks like a piece of paper, then you're kinda right. It's made from a tough as nails material called Tyvek, the same stuff they make Dupont paint suits from (the white paper-esque ones). This stuff is water proof, it bends, twists, pulls, the stuff is pretty damn tough AND as you can see is super thin. They're cut and made in a way that only needs two points of gluing, the rest is purely folding. So you can put the cards and cash you need in without having a crazy ass lump the size of a small child in your back pocket. I'm gonna sweeten the design first and test out some more templates I've done then make a few for sale on here. They'll have different designs, some car ones, rim ones, engine line-art, a whole bunch and should be up for about £7.50 posted.

Pretty cool and pretty cheap. Got any comments? Add some!!

Unphased.

2008-11-06T15:58:00.002Z

There's a new (ish) club in town who call themselves 'Unphased'. They seem like a good bunch and not too 'phased' by some of the bullshit that goes on in the scene, which is why when Adam asked me to come up with something for them I was more than happy to help. Now I'm trying to get into the habit of posting regularly again on here to keep things interesting and this is very much a work in progress, so the graphic here may completely change before you see them all running around looking super baddass in some cool club threads. They love the hoops design I did and wanted to have some of that going on, plus they have a number plate style logo tee at the moment, so I incorporated the two ideas to come up with what you see here. Nice and simple but with a little bit of something going on.

Anyways, watch this space, see some changes happen before your very eyes like magic and enjoy.

GET IN!!!!!

2008-11-03T00:00:00.003Z

Well the main man Lewis Hamilton was on the better end of some luck today by snatching the F1 championship today from Felipe Massa. Last year he lost out by one point, this year he won by one point. Poetic huh? It's only the 2nd year I've been into F1, my pal got me into it and yes, I gotta admit Lewis makes following it a little more fun. I used to find it dull as mud but now I kinda like all the tactics involved.

So, big up Lewis and stick two fingers up to all the haters. It looks like no matter how much Ferrari try to corrupt things it all boils down to the man behind the wheel.

Next year he'll wrap it up before the last race, no matter how much Ferrari and Ecclestone's bent crew try to drag things out.

Pic courtesy of news.com.au (not that I asked em for it).