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| Zebidee:
Ahhhh Q*bert. A dedicated Q*Bert cab is like a dream! And yes, the ladies love this gender-neutral hero who swears indecipherable obscenities when things go bad. Who wouldn't!!!? Love your easy-style approach to cutting cabs. I always like cutting wood in the mornings - cooler, and pretty much guarantees that I'm (mostly) sober. |
| bobbyb13:
This was another of those incomprehensibly ridiculous games that I sucked at- and still love to suck at! Oh, the paper route money that went into this one too. Of course I have had the garden cage project to deal with (the peacocks destroyed the last productive cucumber, pea, and tomato patch the girls planted,) the trade winds are blowing even when it is dark, and a small pack of wild dogs showed up to harass the neighborhood's livestock last night too, so distractions from Q*bert are reaching a crescendo here. I need to go pour myself some rum, go sand out this freakin' cabinet, and keep an ear out for ---smurfy--- barking. |
| bobbyb13:
Damn wind finally stopped blowing and I didn't hear any feral dogs yet, so... I have dicovered something important about the sprayer. Mineral spirits (in meager quantity) are fine for thinning your oil base paint out a bit so it doesn't mung up your gun while shooting, but when it comes to cleaning it out afterwards...? Turpentine or nothing. It is the only thing strong enough to melt all the crap back out of all those pinholes in the gun parts and not destroy anything in the process. The other critical bit was this time around I decided to go a bit depper with sanding prep and took it to 400 grit before even laying the primer on. And I ditched the microfiber type cloth I was using previously to start on removing sanding dust and just opted for a blast from the airgun. I think that cloth was raising the nap actually since it grabs loose fibers (however small.) I can already see that the finish is going to be greatly improved from previous builds. Maybe tomorrow after I fix some stuff at the local Boy Scout camp and hang some lights out on my buddy's new front deck tomorrow then this project can actually turn yellow too. :D |
| Mike A:
Nice work so far. Love it. |
| bobbyb13:
Thank ya! This has been a fun one because it has gone so fast. Been trying to get it playable this week so Nikki could play it on the 10 yr anniversary of when we met (this Friday) but it may have to wait. Wind finally died so I got at it. Between prep, paint mixing, spraying, and clean up one coat takes an hour, an hour 15 somtimes. But it is yellow now! The jamma stuff does go real quickly but I need to decide how the guts will be layed out since it will house at least two game boards. I still need to sift through the pile of monitor stuff I have now to choose which screen/chassis combo will go in it to begin with also. Man- |
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