Burning Chrome - William Gibson A Reading

On the Skids

She's got to the skids again. It is a mess. I know. I know. Who was this chick? She kinda flew in from the eighties and got stuck somewheres in a Wendy's triple. She stands approx.50mm tall and the width of 25 of the same. She is short and squate and she means business. She was once two pieces and are cast in a sturdy PVC plastic.

Pink Floyd - Bob Geldof in The Wall - In The Flesh - Run Like Hell - Waiting For The Worms

I have heard this track before but I haven't seen the video. This is one the most disturbing music videos I have ever seen. How long before this happens here? As it has happened in other countries.

Through the Mountains of Sprue

I believe these sprue belong to a Con-Core kit in HO, 1/87 scale. There are some usable parts here, like the ladder and turn wheels.

I recently dug these out from my door and window stock for a project I am working on. I don't remember the maker of these windows, but they do like industrial windows of some sort,

Skibidi Toilet Mystery Mini Figures

I don't know which are weirder, the Brainrot characters or these Skibidi Toilet's? Five and Below carries these, as do other retailers.

The Skibidi figures are cast from PVC and stand approximately 6 inches tall.

There are others in this series and from what I heard there are more than just this series.

Burning Chrome

“Chrome: her pretty child face smooth as steel, with eyes that would have been at home on the bottom of some deep Atlantic trench, cold gray eyes that lived under terrible pressure. They said she cooked her own cancers for people who crossed her, rococo custom variations that took years to kill you. They said a lot of things about Chrome, none of them at all reassuring.”

Gibson, William. Burning Chrome. New York: Arbor House, 1986.

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The Big Book of Greeblies

Wow! This is quite a collection. There are designs for over 2000 greeblies. Download them and 3D print them. You can never have too many greeble.

Shingles for the Spring House

The horizontal strips measure aproximately 2 scale feet wide in 1/87 scale.

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Since the spring house is ready for a roof I thought I might try shingles this time. Individual shingles at this scale would be too tedious for me today. so I cut them into strips from a left over Bristol board and delinated each shingle by cutting a notch between each shingle. I varied the width and the height of the shingles on the horizontal strips.

A Simple Concrete Spring House

I built the spring house from left over bits of foam-core.The structure measures a scale 13.5 by 11 feet in 1/87 scale. This one is a bit bigger than some and provides a little area for keeping some provisions cold.

The structure is made to look like a concrete building, with a shingled roof.

The foamcore takes well to acrylic paint. The structure was based coated with a coat of light grey. I followed with a dry-brushing of another lite gray and a medium grey. The roof was painted with a I gobbed the inside corners with white glue to give the model some material strength.

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No One Can Save It Now

“But you are wrong; it is useless to cling to the past. Even before the Overlords came to Earth, the sovereign state was dying. They have merely hastened its end: no one can save it now --- and no one should try.”

Childhood’s End, Arthur C. Clarke, 1953

So Many DIY Robots -

Recap of my collection of Scratch built/Kitbash Robots:

It is robot mania here with this collection of DIY robots. They are, for the most part, built from left-overs, scavaged parts and the bits of these parts. This is a beautiful and wonderful collection. The author mentioned something about spending a whole year building robots. I beleive he should.

I Degress

The build of the distlation tank and engine is coming a long. Although the engine has been completed the distlation tank still needs a few details:

1. Steps up to the tank platform
2. A wooden ladder up to the top of the tank
3. Two feeder pipes from the top (I need to drill a couple of wholes on the top of the tank)
4. Door for underneath platform

Most of these components have been completed and are wating to be added in.

Declutter and Isolate Through the Use of Foamcore

I have too much clutter on my workbench and I continue to loose or misplace project components. So I have built a couple of parts trays from leftover foamcore bits. These trays only correct the problem with the clutter in a small way, but any step in the right direction is welcome.

I used bits of copper wire as staples to insure the corners stayed where they are meant to be while the glue dried.

This one is made from bits of matboard