Car Beds for kids.....

XA Coupsta · 31-08-2005, 10:49 AM

Hey All,

My 2 year old son is car mad (cool eh!). He's ready for a proper bed now - and we've seen around the place those car beds for young kids (yknow with like the side profile of a car, and a slat base you put a mattress on. Close to the ground and with high sides so they cant fall out).

Love em. But dont love the price associated with them, especially as it isnt really a long term purchase.

Does anyone have, or know where I could get - plans to build one myself? I know they aint hard to do - even if I cant find any proper plans I could have a decent crack myself.

But before I got to that I was wondering if any handy forum members might be able to save me the trouble!

Thanks,
Coupsta

EA2BA · 31-08-2005, 10:56 AM

MAke it youself, use your car to design it, just get your car, a bright light, a wall, a some paper to make a template.

Put the paper on the wall, put the car in front of the wall, put the bright light behind the car, now trace the shadow onto the paper, then scale it down, then just design the base to be the same as any normal slat bed, get a mattress drop it in, hey presto all done.

Now the painting bit, good luck

Racecraft · 31-08-2005, 10:57 AM

a few have already made them themselves, i think JCXR8 made one for his boy..

If you can use a jigsaw you are 90 percent of the way there..

XA Coupsta · 31-08-2005, 11:11 AM

Cheers guys.

Yeh I've got the jigsaw and stuff so I reckon I'll have to give it a go myself.

And your right about the paint being the hardest bit!

Might get a few local graffiti artists to spray me one up.

Mr Rex · 31-08-2005, 05:43 PM

Maybe try ebay???

What would the materials cost you?

Plus your time??

Just a thought.

EA2BA · 31-08-2005, 05:46 PM

MDF is cheap, and about all you need to use as it wont be around for ever.

wulos · 31-08-2005, 05:57 PM

I'd spoken with my old man about makin this sort of thing up(he's now retired & was looking for a little hobby to keep himself amused with)
What I'd spoken with him about doing was using a data projector to project a photo onto mdf sheeting, & trace the images out using that(makes detail placement, & things like painting up sponsors decals in the right place easy). As I get out & about with a camera on a fairly regular basis getting the required shots wouldn't be that hard a deal anyways.
I was pretty sure that (like all great ideas) there would be others that would let the tyres down on this project by screaming about copywrite infringements, using likenesses without permission etc... a one off for your own kid would be easy enough to keep others happy with though as you are not using it to make profit with.

Mr Rex · 31-08-2005, 06:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Dellboy999

MDF is cheap, and about all you need to use as it wont be around for ever.

Fair enough, take a pic when youre done.

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EA2BA · 31-08-2005, 06:17 PM

I would but I have no need to build one, we dont have kids :( , soon enough we will

DOC · 31-08-2005, 06:24 PM

Could you not buy a cheap secondhand wood slat base, then all you need to make is the sides and end, srew those to your base, a quick sand all over and your done.

dont know if you can get a car pic to come out of a printer ( multiple sheets but if you could you could stick the pics to the board so all edges lines up to make the one big pic, run your jig around it after to get the shape and seal it with a clear cote and there no painting needed. ?? might work

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if your painting it i would look for stickers to stick to the bed rather than paint all the sponser logo's etc

eb_5litre · 31-08-2005, 07:02 PM

I found plans for a Wiggles bed on the net and just made the base part of it without the Wiggles templates. I painted it up to suit Bob The Builder. All up with paint it cost me around $150 to make including paint.

eb_5litre · 31-08-2005, 07:04 PM

http://www.betterhomesandgardens.com...F59E0410D70AC1

Mr Rex · 01-09-2005, 11:45 AM

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Originally Posted by eb_5litre

http://www.betterhomesandgardens.com...F59E0410D70AC1

Great find.

If the wiggles can do it anybody can.

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RS027 · 10-10-2011, 12:41 AM

Thanks guys, im' inspired.

RS027 · 10-10-2011, 12:44 AM

LOL this is Mrs rs027, posting on wht I found by google.........ah......didn't realise I was logged in as hubby to comment. 6 years down the track from the original thread...........

fmc351 · 10-10-2011, 04:11 AM

Thats the way, blame the Mrs

CODSASR · 10-10-2011, 12:18 PM

dunno how any one went with it but here is a design for a v8 supercar

http://au.lifestyle.yahoo.com/better...acing-car-bed/