In a move worthy of even Jason Momoa (who, let’s face it, is the coolest iteration of Aquaman, well, ever), Reddit user Z1stCNTRYdgtlBOY showed off his freshly refurbished surfboard in the DIY community.

“A friend of mine recently had the funny thought of putting together an Aquaman look for going to the beach,” Z1stCNTRYdgtlBOY shares. “I decided I liked this idea, so I ran with it a bit.”

Z1stCNTRYdgtlBOY took an old, inexpensive, used board with significant spider-webbing in the fiberglass and spent the past two-and-a-half months refurbishing the fiberglass, finishing it all off with a shiny, new paint job.

“I just christened it this morning, and it rides like a dream,” he says.

And, of course, Z1stCNTRYdgtlBOY had to get an orange rashguard and green shorts to complete the Aquaman look. Here he is with the board in tow:

Here’s a round-up of all the materials he needed for the job:

“Acetone and mineral oil to clean the board Q-CEL

Fiberglass cloth and resin for patching

Heaps of sand paper

Montana black aerosols (ultramarine and hippie)

Posca pens for the detail work

Safety equipment (the aerosol cans and resin are pretty nasty on the lungs)

Also my wife’s foamy, which I rode while my board was out of commission as motivation to get the project finished.”

He filled cracks with Q-CEL:

And sanded and laid down fiberglass to his heart’s content:

Repaired dings on the board’s nose:

And spent an “upwards of 15 hours” sanding down the fiberglass patches to restore the board’s shape. “So happy I had a power sander,” Z1stCNTRYdgtlBOY adds.

After getting a base of green paint down, Z1stCNTRYdgtlBOY employed one awesome trick to do some striping: “I wanted to make a dark/light stripe design on the base because there is some good evidence that sharks avoid this type of thing. Apparently it looks to them like a poisonous animal. I didn’t want to just do black/white blocky stripes though, so instead I used contrasting colors in a spiral design. To make the spiral, I hung a bottle of dish soap from the ceiling, punctured a hole in the bottom of the bottle, and set it swinging.”

And then he painted over the soap with a layer of aqua blue:

Head over to the full gallery to see how Z1stCNTRYdgtlBOY pulled off the other side of the board: