LAST EDITED ON Jun-01-10 AT 11:21 PM (EDT)
 
>Well, I'm probably not going to do a whole lot, apart from
>putting the beacon glass back on whenever Dad gets it up to me. Maybe
>touch up the paint where it's been knocked off entirely, if I
>can get a decent match to the existing color; maybe take advantage of
>the more advanced facilities I have here in the 21st century to do up
>the graphics a bit more authentically. We made the "police public
>call box" sign by hand, using only the stencils available at the local
>hardware store and some lighter blue paint (and Dad freehanded the
>"public call" part), which is why it's not in the right font, and
>doing up the sign on the little door was entirely outside our powers
>at the time. (Similarly, it hasn't got the top signs on the other
>three sides, as it should, for two reasons: one, they would make it
>slightly wider such that it would no longer fit through a 36" door,
>and two, we'd have had to make three more of the damn things.)
>
>I'm rather proud of the way we did the frosted glass effect on the
>windows. Each one is actually a single piece of plexiglas, the kind
>cheapass storm doors are made of. We turned them into frosted glass
>by sanding the inside surface with a fine grit sandpaper. It looks
>much less convincing from inside, but with the door closed I think the
>illusion's quite good.

I like it. That sounds like a reasonable, achievable set of objectives. The good news is most paint departments can get you a balls-on perfect match to most colors nowadays, if your sample scraping is clean.

I shuddered slightly, when you mentioned sanding plexi. I had a job where that was required, sanding acrylic sheeting...by hand...with an orbital sander. I've managed to get over the initial symptoms of carpal tunnel I was suffering from. On the upside, I have some badass wrists now!

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>Eclipse
>Allegiance: Autobot
>Function: Intelligence
>
>"I was never here."
>

Hahahahaha! THAT is so *you*! Honestly, My first glimpse of the car there was "Dammit, that makes sense."

Nice balancing on the weaknesses and stats, btw.
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>>"Empire or Rebellion? Defend your loyalty."
>
>In the end, I doubt it really matters. Life for the citizen on the
>street in that period of galactic history was pretty miserable all the
>way across the board. Cowering in the basement and wishing the noise
>would stop doesn't particularly demand allegiance to either side.

IMPERIAL PEON #1: "How do you know he's the Emperor?"

IMPERIAL PEON #2: "He's the only one not covered in shit!"

I like it.

>>"What would your TARDIS look like?"
>
>That ought to be obvious - it's a Pepsi machine. Not always the
>same Pepsi machine, it does at least make an effort. But a
>Pepsi machine, all the same. :)

Well, yeah. That I had gathered. I hadn't actually meant the questions to be answered, but hey, this was cool, getting a look inside your cranium, chief.
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