Avant! Forward Thinking: Archive

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Today's Nerdiness Admission - Comedy Bang Bang

With the 3rd anniversary show of Comedy Bang Bang breaking today, I had to listen to it as soon as I woke up - leaving me with no new CBB for my Monday-lunch-walk. So I decided to go back to the 2nd anniversary show, which was the first show that transitioned from the CDR name to CBB and listen to that. Reggie Watts was in studio and played 4 possible theme songs for the new CBB - now admittedly...

Apr 30th

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A Dalek Year - Days 82-88

Most of the focus this week was on the hemis. There are enough of these little buggers on a Dalek and they are such a part of the iconic design, that I need to get them right. And by the end of this week I was pretty happy with the results. I went out to a home improvement store and bought some black screen spline for the hemi gasket, black plastic spray paint for a primer and then gold spray...

Apr 29th

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A Dalek Year - Days 75-81

It’s a week of more skirt work - and making some minor adjustments to the fender to account for some skirt anomalies. I have started to put a second coat on the skirt to fill in any uneven sections: And by the end of the week, my mind started to wonder to the hemis and a possible alternative for the gasket that surrounds them, window screen spline. Reminder, I am blogging daily on my...

Apr 29th

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A Dalek Year - Days 68-74

As mentioned last week, here on tumblr I am going to update my A Dalek Year project in weekly installments. Anyone who wants to follow day by day is welcomed to check out my LiveJournal site where I continue to update daily. This week I started to cover the skirt with spackle and start to sand a little. Below is the partly covered skirt test fitting on the fender. And here’s a little of...

Apr 29th

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