I'm guestimating that it took me about 3-4 hrs. i took a break and then decided to put the ford on the bottom because there was a lot of pumpkin left. then i had to scrape the inside so the light would show thru. all i used was a digital picture of my car. i taped a copy of it to the pumpkin and used my imagination. the hardest part was figuring out how to use the picture. thus, a "Mavkin" was born.