By the hoary hosts of Hoggoth!
1 Like
Mostly my wife’s work, but this was our “suck it, Hasbro!” in response to the lack of Rey dolls. (My daughter requested one for her birthday). I’m still working on the accompanying BB-8.
28 Likes
Finally managed to exceed the crashability limits on the Trainer; still not enough aileron throw for snap rolls…
No worries; it was due for a rebuild anyway. The layers of repair tape were starting to get a bit weighty.
8 Likes
Ah, an elegant instrument for a more civilized age. A landline.
12 Likes
Something that works equally well during storms, power outages, and general heavy use times, and doesn’t drop calls or have so much static or delay that you can’t understand the caller?
Landlines are not entirely dinosaurs yet.
11 Likes
I just picked up the twin pack (P51 & Corsair). I already have a Corsair so I’m starting the P51 build first.
Re: ailerons - take them to the edge of the wing, that will give you better response & might be all that’s needed to get the rolls you’re chasing.
2 Likes
Alrighty.
I’ve been working on installing wall-mounted shelves in my new dining room, but it’s taking me forever.
I had to paint all the metal parts- that’s 7 x 100" of uprights and ~40 shelf brackets. That means de-stickering, sanding, painting (all the sides!) and finding a place warm for them to dry and cure. Great.
Shelves are built, but staining them is turning into a pain- the stain we got is really thick, and it’s a paint-on-wipe-off deal, and I’m not sure I’m liking it. In fact, I may abandon it and get something else. Then (after staining), I get to layer on polyurethane. In the winter. So that’ll be fun. But I need the freaking thing done already.
Ugh.
I’ve gotten virtually no other useful projects done in the meantime- besides tuning some of my bikes for (maybe) riding in the upcoming spring. I need to overhaul the suspension forks and whatnot before any really serious riding, too.
The list is too long.
6 Likes
Update: I made another accessory. With a super high-tech self-balancing mechanism even! (I glued some fishing weights inside a ball).
ETA: here are the two together. The birthday present was a hit!
22 Likes
Is this one of the little spore’s characters? Sure is one of my son’s favorites.
You use Testors paints? Well if you are not adding a clear coat that will last longer but such a pain to work with compared darn near anything else out there. Otherwise that some nice work.
14 Likes
Test flight of the FT Arrow: launches easy, lands easy, flew beautifully right up until the heat of the motor softened the glue holding the firewall in place and the motor/prop assembly fell off. Oops.
It glides well, fortunately. 
Repaired with a more heat-resistant glue and some twist-tie safety straps.
6 Likes
Just made some stuffed animals for a rainy day project. My kids did the conceptual design work for the sock monster and the bat.
I’m afraid that I had to make the ultimate sacrifice in the process of making them though. (It’s OK, I have a spare.)
16 Likes
My knitterly friends all swear that knitting really helps with their mental health. I believe them, for the same reason the “relaxation response” is known to work.
4 Likes
My landline connects through the modem (probably to force me to pay for more than one service). If the power is off or the modem stops working for some reason, I get nothing. My mobile is much more reliable.
4 Likes
Are you sure that’s not a VOIP line?
If you have a modem, there should be a phone jack in the wall that it plugs into (as well as an electrical outlet). You can get an attachment that turns one phone jack into two, so that your land line is attached to the phone jack directly, not the modem. Then it would work like a landline.
4 Likes
I have cable internet, and everything goes through the cable connection. There are telephone sockets in the house, but they’ve been cut off from the system. I agree that traditional landlines are still useful (and my in-laws get a lot of use out of whatever it is that we’ve got), but what we’ve got loses a lot of those benefits (and I’ve had much more reliable modems in the past too, TBH)
3 Likes
I made a small batch of soy candles the other day because my brother wanted to learn. These are actually supposed to be yellow. Not quite sure what I did wrong but I suspect using more dye would have prevented it. They do, embarrassingly, turn a bit yellow around the edges when you burn them. 
Even more embarrassing, we gave one as a gift before realizing it would turn colors like that when burned. 
Other than that, they went well.
15 Likes
