I skated for a long time (9 years) and even though I stopped a few years ago, I still have my board so I decided to use it as reference to build this model. My real board has an Element deck and Independent trucks, so I used those brands for the model as well. Originally I had planned to do the board really beat up and trashed looking (because my real one is totally wrecked). But I figured to do that realistically, I'd probably have to use Zbrush and actually sculpt in all the damage if I wanted it to look at all realistic.
