Last year for Fathers Day, Lenora bought a vintage cooler and straps for me to add to Mabels roof rack. Love the look and get lots of complements on the set up. I still wanted to add one more item just to offset everything. A couple of weeks ago I came across an old camera case at work that was going to be thrown out. Nice aluminum case with 50 year wear, but still in very good condition. To bad the camera was long gone. I thought it’d compliment the cooler and add the offset that I wanted. I wanted to put some kind of decal, logo or something on it just to spruce it up a bit. I found a picture on the web that I thought would be nice so I printed out a few on the colored laser jet and started kicking around some ideas. I ended up settling for what you see in the pics above. I aged the paper print with some brown and black spray paint. I was just going to glue the paper to the case then clear coat over top of it but I didn’t know what affect this may have on the laser jet ink. So after some quick research, it appeared that Mod Podge was the way to go. Once I had the “sign” looking the way I wanted, I taped off the area on the case, applied some Mod Podge, then laid the paper sign in place. I used a damp sponge to remove any air pockets and to carefully smooth out any wrinkles. I took the heat gun with a low setting to help dry the Mod Podge. Let it sit for a while to finish curing, then did the same thing to the other side of the case. Once both sides of the case were dry, I applied a generous coat of Mod Podge over top of the paper sign and let it dry. Final step was to spray both sides with acrylic flat clear coat and let it dry. Nice little project and I’m pleased with the outcome!

Update:
So I decided to add a couple more decals to the case. I remember as a kid, a local VW dealership in my hometown. The owner of the dealership was Bill Niesel. Much controversy surrounded Bill Niesel when his wife was kidnapped in murdered in August, 1974.