07-25-2024, 03:51 AM
Well, that was unproductive.
Sending the bride to Europe, rather than providing opportunities to work on the Challenge, became a dud when I got the "to do" list - which included both a desire for me to make her birthday cake (minor) to repainting the cabinets in the family room. I could have ignored the repainting - it was one of those "If you have time" jobs.
But it nagged at me. There was a guy at work that had offered up his paint sprayer about a month ago when I first mentioned the project, and I figured I might not get the sprayer if I delayed too long. Five cabinets joined together along one wall of our family room which all had to be sprayed inside and out and then shelves and doors with all of the painting done in my hillbilly paint booth I temporarily set up in the garage (plastic sheeting in one of the bays). Started last Monday night and finished late on Sunday. No time for railroading, and my goose (as far as finishing my Challenge entry) is in serious jeopardy. The towel is about to be thrown.
Nonetheless, I did finish up "Lucky's Lunch Counter" last night adding the roof details and reinforcing the base.
I also bought a low-relief kit called the "Philly Modular Flat" Clever Models Paper Models for the 21st Century - Catalog Pg 21X (squarespace.com) which is touted at the "kitbasher's dream" - all it is is a set of walls, windows, pilasters, roof components, windows and doors that you can put together as you wish. I have a tentative plan to put the flat on the left-hand wall to disguise the fact that there is a wall there and it's going to establish the receding hill contour down and away from the front of the layout section. I guess I'll start crackin' with that tonight.
Sending the bride to Europe, rather than providing opportunities to work on the Challenge, became a dud when I got the "to do" list - which included both a desire for me to make her birthday cake (minor) to repainting the cabinets in the family room. I could have ignored the repainting - it was one of those "If you have time" jobs.
But it nagged at me. There was a guy at work that had offered up his paint sprayer about a month ago when I first mentioned the project, and I figured I might not get the sprayer if I delayed too long. Five cabinets joined together along one wall of our family room which all had to be sprayed inside and out and then shelves and doors with all of the painting done in my hillbilly paint booth I temporarily set up in the garage (plastic sheeting in one of the bays). Started last Monday night and finished late on Sunday. No time for railroading, and my goose (as far as finishing my Challenge entry) is in serious jeopardy. The towel is about to be thrown.
Nonetheless, I did finish up "Lucky's Lunch Counter" last night adding the roof details and reinforcing the base.
I also bought a low-relief kit called the "Philly Modular Flat" Clever Models Paper Models for the 21st Century - Catalog Pg 21X (squarespace.com) which is touted at the "kitbasher's dream" - all it is is a set of walls, windows, pilasters, roof components, windows and doors that you can put together as you wish. I have a tentative plan to put the flat on the left-hand wall to disguise the fact that there is a wall there and it's going to establish the receding hill contour down and away from the front of the layout section. I guess I'll start crackin' with that tonight.
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