My first skateboard (in 1965) was just that! A two x Four with a metal roller skate pulled apart and one half nailed to the front and the other half to the back. All the sb's that were on the market then (that I can remember) were strickly wooden.

FOR ANOTHER PROJECT/THEME perhaps there could be a "time warp" theme. A boy's bedroom which has been occupied by brothers of a large family. Imagine a closet with two or three old skateboard models heaped atop each other. The top a chest-of-drawers with a pile of old electronic toys (game boys or whatever). A old monitor on a junky desk displaying a pong game. Some Revelle plastic model-cars. An model of an old Folker, a B52 bompber, etc., hanging from a threads from the ceiling and a Stealth model airplane in the process of being assembled on the desktop. The obligatory model sailing ship (I and my dad assembled the Cutty Sark). The invisible V-8 engine. Blah, Blah, ..... [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]