Back again...

No, I haven't been posted onto a far flung planet. I am still here, still tinkering on my hobbies.

7th December last year, I came to my laptop that was running fine a few minutes earlier and it just had a black screen. It could not be revived. It took over two months until work managed to get a replacement laptop to me with all my data recovered on it. So now I can access the web more easily and get back to blogging my creative endeavours.

More posts to follow shortly, so stay tuned.

Regards, Izzy

Troop! Episode 1 3D Opening Hobart

Date / Time: Feb 9th, 2012 1930-2345
Location: Village Cinemas Hobart, Tasmania
Troopers: 5687, 7651, 8249, 8951, 2538, 9867
Wrangler / Photographer: Scotty

A fun night helping to celebrate the opening of the first episode. After Trooping, we quickly got changed and went to see the movie in our reserved seats. :)

For more photos, please go here.

Print Friendly Option - now avaiable on this blog :)

I know when I have been to a blog and have seen a piece of information that I wanted to keep for future reference, or as a guide, but when you go to print it or save it as a PDF, it just spits out pages of gibberish, the photos are all crammed into one corner. It is just a waste of paper.

To stop this happening here, I have installed a new tool, called PrintFriendly.  So if you open a post you are interested (as a separate post, not in the blog feed), then you will have a couple icons come up, giving you the option to print the post, or save it as a PDF.  All free, and free of ads too.  I hope it saves some hassles as well as saving some trees.

Cutting the armour

Last night I started to cut out the chest panel of the armour that has arrived. As I could see the boundary a lot easier on the inside of the ABS plastic, I drew my lines with a 6B pencil then slowly, using a Olfa craft knife, I scored the lines, then cut deeper into them till I went through.  I have not done the upper part that joins to the back yet as I need the back to see how much I need to take off, but once I do that I will sand the edges with wet and dry sand paper so they will not only have a better shape, they will also not be so sharp.

It was easier to cut out then I thought it would be!

I also need to add a little hole for the strap near the bust line.

E-11 (Hasbro)

I have been tinkering on my E-11 (Hasbro) for a little while now.  I do plan to make a scratch or pipe build one day, but till then, the Hasbro will work well for my Scout Trooping.

The Blaster just as it arrived!

Blaster after a lot of sanding.  I have a couple resin parts for it already and they have been sanded and prepped too.

I will have to work on the trip next and the sight.