Party pooper.
Ok, Mom. We’ll just stay and eat at home then.
BTW, would you believe I had no idea there is a sequel to “Hitch-Hikers Guide…”? I figured your comment was an allusion to the aforementioned. Imagine my surprise, and delight after a quick Google!
Oh, and the book was better (except for Zooey, of course)
Your casts look pretty good, Stevie.
Your experimentation is lots of fun to watch.
Never trusted things that bubble, unless they are supposed to.
That was usually my clue, I’d put too much dishsoap in glue mixes and the like. Frustrating to get soap rather than “wetting agent.” Sigh.
This may sound dumb, but, have you tried not shaking the thinner?
As a test, of course. For Science.
This would “feel” very wrong as everything else in our hobby wants shaking to ensure all of the ingredients are in correct suspension. So, the experiement will feel very wrong, more wrong than tofurky.
Other than that, I got nothing. Other than a pizza coming. Hopefully it will not be a surprised sperm whale.
I went for it. I used 32 awg magnet wire cut to 1/32 length. The wires are too small for a tweezers to grab, let alone not get glue stuck to it. I used a wax pencil to grab, hold, apply CA along the edge, and position. In general, it worked ok but at this size, I can’t expect much. Without the wax pencil there is no way I could have done this.
I will tone down the gloss with Dullcote at another time.
Next process up… I will refocus efforts on… Aquaman!
Actually, the shaking was very minimal, but no, is the answer. It was more of gentle twisting of the hand a few times and when I did it, it was just out of habit. And the little agitation I did produced a froth of bubbles. That told me something is amiss here.
Yum. Not sure I understand the sperm whale reference.
Lol. I need to start writing down these Capn’isms. This is good stuff!
Not dumb. In 7 years, I’ve never shaken the thinner. That’s why I was surprised with Steve said it bubbles, and even more so when I gave mine a shake.
Also, I trust it less now that I know it bubbles, I get what you mean.
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I talked about Puduo a few pages back. See the link below.[/quote
Goes to show nothing has changed in this time line, I remember pecan logs and Timmy’s spider monkeys but not the lesson, caught up and paying attention Sir. [I]
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Hey Joe, no problem. It is easy to miss things in all the banter.
[;)][Y] all a good laugh, what more you need end of the day. Working on the Brewster at the moment drying.
Ah, when the intrepid band engages the Infinite Imbrobability Drive to evade the thermonuclear missiles launched from Magrithea, by way if infinite improbability, they became a very confused sperm whale in the grip of Gravity, and a bowl of Petunias whose last thought was “Oh no, not again.”
The doomed cetacean barey has time to come to grips with Existence and Meaning before the grip of Gravity intorduces it to the unfortunate phisics of ballistics by way of the surface of Magrithea.
Believe it or not , …
I actually kinda liked the Vogon poetry.
… ( it’s entirely possable that I’m just REALLY depressed.)
And me, feeling rather inadequate here, having only read ‘The Hitch-Hikers Guide…’ and none of Adams other works. I suppose I may have to correct that, this Dirk Gently character sounds interesting…
You ain’t kidding, Vogon poetry would be more entertaining than most of the krap on TV these days.
Bakster: Good luck with the Aquaman clones. They’re looking good so far.
So, 19 years ago (11May2001) is when Douglas Admas passed.
In honor of his memory, 25 May is World Towel Day.
Say Greg – first impressions of the Tamiya orange is that this should be good for things where I need a little more time positioning. One thing I am scratching my head about though. What’s the deal with that funky brush? Do they think I am gluing a 1:1 plane? Lol. The thing is huge and it’s got to go. So, I had a bottle of extra thin that was almost empty. I poured that into my sprue-goo and then dumped the orange into the extra thin bottle. So that I don’t get confused, I painted an orange dot on the cap.
Looking forward to using this stuff.
Thanks again for the tip…
Odd timing, was just wondering yesterday if you tried the thick orange cap Tamiya yet.
The brush sure does seem huge after being used to the Extra Thin ones (which I thought were too small when I first started using them, ha ha). I still don’t quite understand how it works. Viscosity seems somewhere in between Extra Thin and the old Testor’s tube glue (which I also don’t understand how it works). The ‘welding action’ of the Thin I get.
Glad to hear you are getting along ok with it, Steve.
For the sake of an update… things I am working on:
Adding detail to the figure has been problematic. I can’t figure a medium that is workable and dries hard. I tried using both sprue-goo and Apoxie Sculpt. I had limited sucess with the goo, and sculpt, forget about it. Apoxie Sculpt is good stuff but as a sculpting medium, it sucks. It is very difficult to use. It sticks to your finger or tools more than to the piece you are applying it to. And the stuff doesn’t smooth out very readily. Once you get it stuck to the piece–you must press with superman force in order to flatten it out. Wetting it helps, but it’s still a battle. The beauty of the stuff is its dry state. It sands, drills, and bonds well, once cured.
I may try this again, maybe using thick CA. The goal is to make a master copy so that I can make a mold to recast 4 figures.
Anyway–like I said in another post–the figures will be crude. And that is Ok because a person won’t see much of the detail anyhow. Just having a 3D represention in there should look cool. The crappy one I made thus far did.
I applied Apoxie Sculpt to the roof of the cabin leading down towards the top of the window frames. It is a sort of headliner. The movie prop had something that when viewed from the back, the top of the window frame can’t be seen. I tried to mimic that. It was a battle using sculpt but I think it’s shaped nicely and to good effect.
The lower chambers were missing bottom panels. Those are needed to rest the beds on. I cut, fit, and installed those panels.
THE END