Category: Miscellaneous

Brisbane

  • December 28, 2016

After travel that included a flight cancellation, rerouting, delays and near luggage loss, we managed to both get on the same plane in LA as planned, and make it here at the same time.

Here is Brisbane!

The weather is beautiful and Brisbane is full of people. We’re staying in a lovely old hotel right next to the CBD and spent most of yesterday just wandering around.

And of course eating, since neither of us ate on the plane.

It’s a beautiful downtown, wrapped around the river as it does. On the other side from our hotel is a waterfront park and all sorts of attractions. We rode the Ferris wheel, but even though it was early afternoon I was pretty ruined by then and fading fast; it’d been over 40 hours since I had slept!

I went to bed at some ridiculous hour (it was still sunny out) and here I am at 3 am wide awake and hungry as a beast. I wonder if anything is open…?

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Welcome To Robot Claw!

  • December 21, 2016

Here we are at the brand new blog! If it all looks suspiciously familiar that’s because it is, since this is a copy of the old blog. All the posts, all the pictures, all the comments. It’s all here.

The difference – aside from the new URL – is that the blog now runs on Amazons cloud servers and not on a PC in Bernard’s house. Thanks to ‘Agent B’ for setting this all up for us 🙂

The old blog will remain for a while just to point people here. But it’s not a mirror of this, which is to say no new posts will appear on it. So update your bookmarks to this version and never look back!

Oh, and leave a comment please. That’s the only feature I didn’t test myself 🙂

More Crafting

  • December 10, 2016

It’s time for a craft update. While KLS was in Ireland I occupied myself with a bit of making. Three different miniature kits to be precise, and all turned out quite well.

The first was a tiny cardboard dinosaur skeleton that I had picked up in CA earlier this year. I bough a kit by the same maker in Japan years ago but ruined it during assembly so I was very careful this time and it went together without issue.

As you can see it’s very detailed for its size (about 1.5 inches high) if a little flimsy. A tiny bit of glue would perfect this, but I’m too nervous to do it so it shall sit on the shelf forever!

The next kit was a gift from Florence, who has since admitted she chose it because it looked difficult. She wasn’t wrong!

I’d made one like this before and that was hard enough, but look at the micro-folds required here! The level of precision is incredible, and this one also requires glue to assemble. Im not sure I had the correct tools for this, but then I don’t know even what the correct tools would be!

Almost all the pieces in the first photo go into making the tiny three-windowed piece in the lower right of the second!

Anyway I was careful and meticulous and patient and believe I ended up doing quite a good job:

It came with a little display case (which also needed assembly) but I like it better out.

Lastly it was time for (yet!) another Metal Earth kits, this time from their new Doctor Who license.

This was another trial of my patience to be honest, and definitely amongst their more difficult kits. But once made, it’s amazing:

Next on my list: a Gundam. Whether or not that happens before Oz remains to be seen…