{"id":3334,"date":"2018-02-18T15:42:47","date_gmt":"2018-02-18T15:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/?p=3334"},"modified":"2018-02-18T16:07:58","modified_gmt":"2018-02-18T16:07:58","slug":"gi-joe-atomic-man-cargo-box-adapting-a-found-object","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/?p=3334","title":{"rendered":"GI Joe Atomic Man Cargo Box – Adapting a Found Object"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Find<\/h1>\n

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Last year at Lowe’s hardware store I found a metal box sold as a gift card holder. It was in the form of a miniature diamond-plate pickup truck cargo box.<\/p>\n

Needless to say I find it hard to shop anywhere<\/em> without seeing every object that comes into my sight in a 1:6 scale filter, to see what I could make of it. This was a no-brainer.<\/p>\n

I bought a few, took them home and began to think how I could best use them.<\/p>\n

Since the new GI Joe Club Exclusive Mike Power Atomic Man had just recently arrived at my door, I figured how better to use this than to make it Mike Power’s personal equipment box.<\/p>\n

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It is a great fit for the GI Joe Adventure Team Vehicle or Trouble Shooter, too.<\/p>\n

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And around that time the Mattell Halo Warthog was making its rounds on Amazon at sell-out prices and a bunch of us collectors were getting them, and I’m no exception. I bought two green, and painted them (one in AT Yellow and the other in a bright AT Red) and then they came out later with a red version, so I have one of those too.<\/p>\n

The cargo box fits nicely into the cargo bay of the Warthog.<\/p>\n

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The Final Product<\/h1>\n

Of course I wanted to cover up the LOWES logo, and make it Mike’s, so here is the final product:<\/p>\n

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What’s Next?<\/h1>\n

This, I should say, is almost<\/em> finished. I have one other thing I want to do, and that is to put a tool-box-like handle on the top lid.<\/p>\n

More on that later…<\/p>\n

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