About Rod Elliott
Rod started painting
right out of high school and took it seriously, but the demand
of painting was few and far between in a small town. Since he
was 17, nobody took his work seriously. Rod plugged away at it
for the next 20 years, as a hobby. He loved to mix up color and
bringing his work to life. A few years ago he had an Radio
Control aircraft in the box ready to be built, It was all
fiberglass, and wanted to be different on the flying field. He
wanted to paint it black with flames, but as he was getting
into the build, he saw a show on TV, where a guy name "Mike
Lavallee" was putting "Real fire, or as its known today.."True
fire" and thought to himself, "That would look AWESOME on that
plane!!". Rod Called Mike after looking to find out where he
was,got his #, and talked to Mike about doing his project. The
price was WAY more than he could afford at the time, so he
decided to try his hand at it! Needless to say, it was real
tough to put this down, since he had never had an airbrush in
his hands before. Practice panel, after practice panel, he
fought it, till one day, he decided that Mike needed to come
into play, and show Rod how the hell this is done! He got in
touch with Mike, and with Mike's help, showed Rod what he
needed to do, to be able to put this fire down. and rest is,
like the say, "History"! Rod has been doing custom
airbrushing ever since, and opened his new shop in Sparks NV.,
where he's there everyday working hard to make sure his
customers are happy with his work, and providing a great "turn
around' with most paint jobs being in the 7 to 14 day range
where the customer has his parts back, and ready to go back on
there bike! | |
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