CTHULHU CAR DECAL!

In this instructable I will show you how to make a plastic logo thing for your car. I made mine depicting "The Great Cthulhu" as an Icthys Fish, but you could do whatever you want. This is an easy, simple instructable.

Step 1 Material

For this project you will need:
Plastic suitable for the type of cutting you will do. (The more intricate your design, the easier the plastic needs to be to cut)
A knife or set of knives. I got a set of Xacto knives with a bunch of blades for $3 at Menards.

A template for cutting.

Spray paint for coloring.

Comments

[kiafayce]

My car now sports this awesome sign. Church-goers everywhere gape at it. Thank you soo much. :]]

[rugnor]

could i put that on a boat?

[studleylee]

LOL !!!! A well read person in today's scene. I have to make one also!!
Thanks for the laugh!

[JohnJY]

 I saw this on Facebook flair.

[michaelalanjones]

I thought of this while I was reading your instructable: Instead of painting the shiny part, you could use some metal tape (it's for fixing car fenders). It is about 2 1/2" thick. Just stick it to the black plastic, and then cut out your pattern with an X-Acto knife, removing the 'black' parts, and then you are done, and it is metal!

[Cold Hearted Stitch]

Ooh! Good call. Make the black part a magnet strip from the craft store and voila!

[static]

 And get ready to say good bye to your project when some who likes it discovers they can peal it off what ever it's stuck too.

[MKohen]

tahts a great idea. Maybe I'll try it out if I make another one.

[frikkie]

Very nice! 

[knightowl]

 Hey, any chance you could post the cthulu template that you used?

[ampeyro]

wow, it's great, i'm trying to make something like that(mine is the fsm and is made of aluminum), but it helped

[Joe Mama]

I found the guys who make the Cthulhu Fish you got the image from.

http://www.dagonindustries.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=3

[bobobob1230]

i enjoyed in bruges as well

[musicalbee2003]

FSM Fish, here I come!

[thejackman808]

thats exactly what i was thinking

[drummonkey92]

darwin fish would be cool aswell

[hurtzmyhead]

of course then you could do the original christan fish!

[hcold]

I happen to live in Dunedin, New Zealand, and I hear the rumblings in the hills...

[Dorkfish92]

is that the Gerber razor? That thing is awesome. Cool Ible!

[musicalbee2003]

"Is your baby a Gerber baby?"

[LinuxH4x0r]

Yay forsaken one!

[GoodRubbish]

Vote for a real change this November - Vote Cthulhu! Very nicely done, good sir... very nicely done indeed.

[uglymike]

Why settle for the lesser of evils? Vote Cthulhu!

[Jalakahops]

LOL! I laughed for a while at that.

[SCRIPTmaster]

wow, really cool!

[abbabibble2]

IA, IA CTHULHU FTAGHN!

[DJ Radio]

wow. After this, you can play tight rap very loud from your car... very popular where I live, especially 26-year-olds

[ThanksDolph]

You don't happen to own a blue Jeep do you? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Cthulhufish.jpg

[WTHAI]

not the same decal. lol. just similar.

[doommeister]

Iä! Ryleh Cthuluhu fhtangh, sure to bring night fevers and unholy dreams of cyclopean structures to any who sleep in a car with this badge. Sweet.

[depotdevoid]

By the Great Old Ones, that is beyond awesome! I can feel the frayed threads my sanity unraveling just looking at the thing...I'll have to make one myself. Cthulhu fhtagn!

[Basta]

Awesome! I was thinking of getting the Darwin fish but this thing trumps evolution any day.

[shooby]

What the hell is CTHULHU?

[shilohjim]

I had to look it up myself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulhu

BTW what did we learn from this 'ible? Trace around a shape and cut it out with an x-acto knife and spray paint it?

[MKohen]

You didn't really learn anything. Its just an idea for a car decal that some people might not have thought of.

[shooby]

Yeah, but not just any shape...Chulhu, super! Right? Hey? Right guys? Oh.

[PKM]

Cthulhu is a recurring meme, nothing more. Self-referential humour is the new... regular humour. If you don't want a Cthulhu fish you could have a WANDA or a DARWIN or whatever. If you really want you can distil a lot of Instructables down to "so you're just soldering some components together?"- just because the techniques used are simple ones doesn't mean the Instructable is worthless. "How to spray paint plastic and stick it together" would be a rubbish 'Tible (and there are some around of that quality or worse, see "Ghetto Hacks"), this is sharing a design that happens to be easy to make.

[Nesagwa]

Yeah, nothing but a silly internet meme.

Read a book for pete's sake.

[PKM]

OK, fair point- yes, I realise the mythos is a significant literary work, so Cthulhu is more than just a silly internet meme, but this Instructable doesn't seem to be about the books.

[MKohen]

I learned about Cthulhu through the stories of H.P Lovecraft before I found anything on the Internet. I happened to see a picture similar to my logo on the Internet, and decided to make one. Hopefully I'll be able to find other Lovecraft fans with it...