Happy Christmas

Happy Christmas to all! I received many fabulous gifts, many of which I’ll surely blog about in the new year, but for now I’ll showcase just one:

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Yes, that’s #58, the rarest of all FF books and the one that now makes my collection complete! Thanks brother 🙂

Tomorrow I head to Australia for fun times and fine dining. As always, you can follow my exploits on this very blog…

Santa Yoda

“May the Christmas be with you!”

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Christmas Creature

Look what I got…

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At only $1, how could I resist? Here’s what it looked like when I took the bits out:

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The foam is adhesive, and assembly consists of attaching each tiny square piece individually to the dome, like this:

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Since I am a master craftsman, this was easier and faster than it looked. Here’s the finished dome:

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The extra bits and pieces had to be glued on (glue not provided) but since the foam was porous we had to use super glue. Here he is all done:

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Not bad for $1 is he 🙂