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[Bubba D. Fett]

that's cool

[Slade Kel]

Nice work on cleaning up the helmet . And better to admit defeat than trying to keep rushing it and making some sort of irrevocable mistake . I've seen people ruin hard work by insisting they could make a deadline that they couldn't. Picture, for example, knocking that helmet off of something and having it crack into pieces...not saying it would happen, but it could. Better to take it slower and get it done right.

[Dresdon Acacin]

Hey vod, what glue did you use to glue that paper? and did you use cardstock or just regular printer paper?

[Zophar Ptay]

Hey vod, what glue did you use to glue that paper? and did you use cardstock or just regular printer paper?

I used elmer's glue stick to glue the plain printer paper onto cereal-box-weight cardboard, cut the pieces all out, then used Aleene's Tacky Glue [purple bottle seen below]  [[Thanks Seugtai for the suggestion!]] to assemble the parts.

[Dresdon Acacin]

M'kay thanks

Oh wow-the boards are back up faster than I thought!

[Zophar Ptay]

sanding and spot filling and sanding and spot filling.  got the thing almost baby-bottom smoothe and realized there were a few points of asymmetry so I did a big fill and working it all back down again.

In other news, my father-in-law had a stroke yesterday.  He's in the hospital and likely not going to make it.  So our plans for CVI are likely to be canceled entirely now.  We'll put off the decision a day or two, but we were supposed to fly out this coming Friday so we can't wait too long to make the call.    So hey... bright side, at least I didn't rush to finish the kit just to cancel the trip anyway... I guess.. if there can be a bright side to something like this.

[ConDar Ward]

 .....  Keep it up .... It will be Great .

Sorry to hear about your Father- in-law .
If there is any Consolation in it my Aunt is in the Same Condition as of Wednesday night .

 You have my full Support ....

[Dresdon Acacin]

I'm not sure how to feel aboot that......but at leaste i won't be the only mando in Canada not going to CVI then...

[Zophar Ptay]

what an amazing trip.  getting ready to head home in a couple hours and have a new sense of motivation to get working again.  All you Mercs heading out, have safe trips.

[BobaFiend]

Saw you walking around the Mercs bunker with this thing.  Was gonna say hi but I guess I got distracted by something.

[Zophar Ptay]

yeah, there was plenty to distractions to be had

[Serim Merec]

Bump How's it goin' Zophar?

[Zophar Ptay]

Father in law had a stroke just before CVI, then we went on our trip, then i got the Con Crud which turned into a full-blown  sinus infection.  Still have the sniffles.  Short story long, no progress made.  Hope to start back on sanding this weekend perhaps.

Thanks for asking, though

[Serim Merec]

Don't worry I understand Get bettter soon vod!

[Zophar Ptay]

so a small update.   the aforementioned life issues have led to a second job.   work is being done very slowly, but that makes nine shifts per week right now and a major kick in the trews as far as energy levels.  Zophar Ptay isn't dead, he's just safely encased in carbonite at the moment.  I started painting my shoulders and the paint I had picked is a lot shinier and more metallic than I expected.  I'll see how much the matte clearcoat tones it down, then add the detail striping and get some pics up.   Still slowly sanding on the bucket, but I'm too much of a perfectionist for my own good.  I get it nice and clean then realize it's a little lopsided and go back to square two.  One day I'll decide it is close enough, but hey..  as my first girlfriend said, I'm worth waiting for, aren't I?