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boxes? we don't need no stinkin boxes!!!!
8) I have quite a grebellion at home and the wife knows not to touch Anything that peaks interest joins my greeble forces.After all I am working on a couple of SSC creations of my own using a brute bottle and a seasalt bottle. I will post some pics soon. Has anyone seen my spindle bender or my thingamabob? BTW keep your filthy paws off my doohicky!
improvise adapt and overcome.We are the fellowship of modelers.
M&Ms has a new candy bowl for Christmas. It's about 8" in diameter and comes in two colors - shiny gold and shiny red.
The inner plastic container pops out from the outer shell. One half of the outer shell has a cutout of "M & M"; the inner white container fits into this. The other half is featureless, except for a flat area near the apex.
I found it at Smart & Final, but most stores should have it.
It's the perfect shape for this thing's body.
Frank
The inner plastic container pops out from the outer shell. One half of the outer shell has a cutout of "M & M"; the inner white container fits into this. The other half is featureless, except for a flat area near the apex.
I found it at Smart & Final, but most stores should have it.
It's the perfect shape for this thing's body.
Frank
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How terribly tragic. If you were to send it to me, I'm sure I could find some means to honor it's remains... Why, I'd even pay postage in order to ease your suffering.... 8)Chacal wrote:My inkjet printer just bought the farm...
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The Grebbly collector's moto:
<A HREF="http://www.kc6sye.com/images/images_09_ ... a_mini.jpg" target="_blank">Find it,
save it,
cast it.</A>
<A HREF="http://www.kc6sye.com/images/images_09_ ... a_mini.jpg" target="_blank">Find it,
save it,
cast it.</A>
<a href="http://www.kc6sye.com/2_wheresaneatpart.jpg" target="_Sparky">Is this plastic thingy on the counter a neat part?</a> <a href="http://www.kc6sye.com/1_casting_inprogress.jpg" target="_Sparky">Let's cast it.</a>
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I recognize some of those parts!Sparky wrote:The Grebbly collector's moto:
<A HREF="http://www.kc6sye.com/images/images_09_ ... a_mini.jpg" target="_blank">Find it,
save it,
cast it.</A>
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Kolschey wrote:How terribly tragic. If you were to send it to me, I'm sure I could find some means to honor it's remains... Why, I'd even pay postage in order to ease your suffering.... 8)Chacal wrote:My inkjet printer just bought the farm...
So sorry, the poor thing got into a terrible accident with a screwdriver, and there just wasn't much left of it to bury... But she'll be remembered (specially when I need greeblies) fondly.
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Political unrest in dictatorships is rather like a round of rock-paper-scissors: The oposition goes on denouncing the regime on the papers, the regime censors the papers, rock-throwing ensues.
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In four months, this thread will have been going for two years...
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And they ain't gonna go about collecting themselves, so somebody's got to do it.Lt. Z0mBe wrote:Whole lotta parts need collectin'Kylwell wrote:heh...
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Political unrest in dictatorships is rather like a round of rock-paper-scissors: The oposition goes on denouncing the regime on the papers, the regime censors the papers, rock-throwing ensues.
Political unrest in dictatorships is rather like a round of rock-paper-scissors: The oposition goes on denouncing the regime on the papers, the regime censors the papers, rock-throwing ensues.
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Wasn't that a line from Sanford and Son?Chacal wrote:And they ain't gonna go about collecting themselves, so somebody's got to do it.Lt. Z0mBe wrote:Whole lotta parts need collectin'Kylwell wrote:heh...
Kenny
Fred Sanford wrote:Hey Lamont, you big dummy. They ain't gonna go about collecting themselves
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There's my execuse I remeber watching that show as a kid. I've been programed to pack rat all the good parts.
Oh and I have to take a picture of this bag of crap kywell sent me. Then a picture of all the parts that came out of it that need to be molded asap. Some are right here on the desk in front of the monitor (the high value ones that I could get to without dumping out the whole bag).
Oh and I have to take a picture of this bag of crap kywell sent me. Then a picture of all the parts that came out of it that need to be molded asap. Some are right here on the desk in front of the monitor (the high value ones that I could get to without dumping out the whole bag).
<a href="http://www.kc6sye.com/2_wheresaneatpart.jpg" target="_Sparky">Is this plastic thingy on the counter a neat part?</a> <a href="http://www.kc6sye.com/1_casting_inprogress.jpg" target="_Sparky">Let's cast it.</a>
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Remind me to send you that Avon Hair Rocket bottle cap.....Sparky wrote:There's my execuse I remeber watching that show as a kid. I've been programed to pack rat all the good parts.
Oh and I have to take a picture of this bag of crap kywell sent me. Then a picture of all the parts that came out of it that need to be molded asap. Some are right here on the desk in front of the monitor (the high value ones that I could get to without dumping out the whole bag).
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My wife bought some ornaments at Garden Ridge the other day. God love her, she knew to save the shapes for me.
Basically, there are 20 or 30 ornaments, packaged in layers, that are stacked to form a cylinder about a foot or two tall. Each layer of ornaments sits in a clear vacuformed plastic tray, with hemispheres for each ornament in the layer.
The ornaments are of different sizes, making each tray have, four, six, eight, or more hemispheres molded into it.
I ended up with trays totalling about forty or fifty clear plastic hemispheres of vairous sizes.
God, I love my wife.
Kenny
Basically, there are 20 or 30 ornaments, packaged in layers, that are stacked to form a cylinder about a foot or two tall. Each layer of ornaments sits in a clear vacuformed plastic tray, with hemispheres for each ornament in the layer.
The ornaments are of different sizes, making each tray have, four, six, eight, or more hemispheres molded into it.
I ended up with trays totalling about forty or fifty clear plastic hemispheres of vairous sizes.
God, I love my wife.
Kenny
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Christmas decorations have been taken down, and I sweet talked my way into getting some leftover big plastic christmas balls. They are a bit scuffed (from being used in a store) but the owner was not going to keep all of them in storage till next year (he doesn't know if he'll have the same color next year, so...).
Hee hee. Fuel tanks!
Hee hee. Fuel tanks!
Sheer elegance in its simplicity.
Political unrest in dictatorships is rather like a round of rock-paper-scissors: The oposition goes on denouncing the regime on the papers, the regime censors the papers, rock-throwing ensues.
Political unrest in dictatorships is rather like a round of rock-paper-scissors: The oposition goes on denouncing the regime on the papers, the regime censors the papers, rock-throwing ensues.
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I took the Scotland Key chain Bar gave me at wonderfest apart, I had to get at the ball joints. Combined with the optical encoder wheel from a very old mouse and I get some sort of Tesla lightning gatalin gun. One ball gribbly short, but they got molded so no problem there.
http://www.kc6sye.com/images/images_12_ ... lingun.jpg
http://www.kc6sye.com/images/images_12_ ... lingun.jpg
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<a href="http://www.kc6sye.com/2_wheresaneatpart.jpg" target="_Sparky">Is this plastic thingy on the counter a neat part?</a> <a href="http://www.kc6sye.com/1_casting_inprogress.jpg" target="_Sparky">Let's cast it.</a>
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Good call!
I like your way of thinking, Joe...
I like your way of thinking, Joe...
I must retire to my couch of perpetual indulgence...
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My wife threw out a strand of the small Christmas lights this year. If the bulbs are removed, and the wires pulled out, the resulting sockets look like great little detail pieces. I figure they're great engine nozzles, vents, or something. They even have a bit of texture to them.
Just a thought.
Kenny
Just a thought.
Kenny
scratch this!
I found a "see and say" and split it in two. I also added two engines, Styreen window candles. and the base is from an old skittle bowl.
the top is an old portable wall light fixture. Just needs some more greebles.
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p201 ... say001.jpg
the top is an old portable wall light fixture. Just needs some more greebles.
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p201 ... say001.jpg
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No time to argue Senor!
No time to argue Senor!
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Re: scratch this!
With a mighty roar, the alien craft appeared...Terran munitions were useless against its massive armored carapace. Massive, indomitable, It hovered...1138thx wrote:I found a "see and say" and split it in two. I also added two engines, Styreen window candles. and the base is from an old skittle bowl.
the top is an old portable wall light fixture. Just needs some more greebles.
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p201 ... say001.jpg
And time stood still...
Finally, as the crowds waited below, expectantly, a mighty voice thundered forth from the strange craft above...
"The Cow says MOOOO!"
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