A framed picture in a bathroom, showing a roll of toilet paper on a holder. Text below it reads “That’s how I roll”. The free end of the paper is coming off the front of the roll, as it should be.
Today I Learned: that fore-edge painting is a thing. (It’s on a list of critically endangered crafts.) Now I kinda want to try it. My brother-in-law has a book press that maybe I could borrow. . .
Revell Ferrari 360 Modena Spyder, 1/24th (in progress)
I started by painting engine parts. StyNylRez black primer, Model Master enamel Aluminium (possibly for the Canadian market?) various Vallejo acrylics - light grey, German grey (very good for not-quite-black), some flavor of red, probably…
Furniture, of a sort (in progress)
The seat on my shop stool finally gave up after too many years under my fat butt.
Too Much Going On Here
Normally I build one thing at a time. Often I’ll start a second thing once the first one gets near completion; i.e. in the painting stage. Thought I’d try something different. Too much junk I’m attempting to build three things at once - a plane, a car, and a starship.…
B-Wing
The 1/72 scale Bandai B-Wing starfighter. A very nice kit of what I think is the goofiest-looking vehicle in the Star Wars universe. I finished this in December 2025, but didn't get around to writing this post until three weeks later.
I really wanted her to scream "Soylent Green is people!"
But does it have HDP?
Replacing lost parts badly
One of the current projects is an Encore Models 1/72 scale kit of the Tupolev I-4. Never heard of it? That's okay. Here's the front end: Note the abnormal bulk of the indicated . . . whatever it is. I think these are cylinder head covers, or something. There are nine of…
Similar in Pearland, just south of Houston in Brazoria county. The county hasn't been blue since before Reagan. Over 700 people turned out.
I went to pick up my blood pressure medications at Walgreen's and they were playing Siouxsie and the Banshees on the store speakers.
We had over 700 in Pearland.
Part of a battery package. The brand name is 'QLQXQTy'.
It's either Aztec or Welsh, I'm not sure which.
Heller Ariane 5, and applying decals in a straight line. I hope.
This is a 1/125 scale Heller kit of the Ariane 5. Markings are for flight V-101 on 30 October 1997, using Ariane 5G number 502, which did not explode. Lego Batman was AWOL for this photo shoot. The G is for Generic. Really. Not a lot…
+1 for hot danger icing. Also, a scroll saw is a sewing machine with more teeth.
"Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work." -- Flaubert
This one should do the trick. And you can let it run all night. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmUx...
Oh look, Bluesky reads the bot text. More likely, WordPress strips it down to bare minimum and pushes that out. Either way, it's not meant for human consumption.
I want the WordPress 'Publish' button to read 'Publish and be damned'.
What’s this? Ukulele construction?
I don't know what happened, but I just felt like working on getting the heel of this 14-fret tenor a little bit better. Somewhere in there is the shape I want. Then it got hot so I quit. But hey, progress! The lymphatic fluid of domestic cats is a good source of…
Mylene Flare Jenius
Mylene Flare Jenius about to jam out on her bass. Lego Batman suspects he's wandered into a remake of 'Attack of the 50-Foot Woman'. Not a typo; that's how it's spelled. Bass player of the band Fire Bomber. What, you've never heard of them? Neither had I, until I tried to…
Tamiya Honda S600
Yes, it's a car. Or parts of a car, anyway. All splodey-like. Parts is parts. I was thinking about adding plug wiring, but someone at the local IPMS club who is an actual car modeler brought me to my senses. So it's going to be straight fnord out of the box (OOB), plus flocking…
The cover of Lester Del Rey's 'The Runaway Robot', Scholastic Book Club edition paperback.
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Yeah, don't order Cajun food in Bartlesville, either.
Incorrect as usual for this administration. Paper clips didn't really exist before the mid 1800s. A machine for making the modern 'Gem' style clip was patented in 1899. The design of the clip itself seems never to have been patented. (Petroski, Henry. The Evolution of Useful Things, Knopf, 1993.)
Well, since the PS3 has gone to the great bit bucket in the sky....
I vaguely remember it as being Not Good, but it was nearly forty years ago.
Deadly Care?
Stuff that got fried in last week's electrical storm (so far):
Wi-Fi router.
Printer.
LED task light (x2).
PowerBot vacuum.
Light switch (seems to have caught fire.)
Garage door opener.
PlayStation 3.