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Froggy the Great

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I have a 1947 Singer Sewing Machine).. in working condition.

The stupid light still works.. it is a wide harp machine (with ALL the attachments).. was given to me years ago.

Now I want it gone, but I want it to go to someone that will appreciate it.

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Really?!?

 

I love those great old machines. I've kind of had my heart set on a foot-powered one for a while, just for nostalgia's sake.

 

At the moment my workhorse is a bottom-of-the-line Sears Kenmore machine, all mechanical with no computerized bits to go "pzzzt" at inopportune moments. I've sewn cushions, curtains, costumes, leather aviator caps, clothing for the whole family, and tailored suits on it.

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I have a 1947 Singer Sewing Machine).. in working condition.

The stupid light still works.. it is a wide harp machine (with ALL the attachments).. was given to me years ago.

Now I want it gone, but I want it to go to someone that will appreciate it.

:wub: :wub: :wub:

 

Really?!?

 

I love those great old machines. I've kind of had my heart set on a foot-powered one for a while, just for nostalgia's sake.

 

At the moment my workhorse is a bottom-of-the-line Sears Kenmore machine, all mechanical with no computerized bits to go "pzzzt" at inopportune moments. I've sewn cushions, curtains, costumes, leather aviator caps, clothing for the whole family, and tailored suits on it.

 

 

All I can say is thank goodness my sister is in a different country from you two.  She'd be over there in an instant attempting to raid.... and learn!

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I have a 1947 Singer Sewing Machine).. in working condition.

The stupid light still works.. it is a wide harp machine (with ALL the attachments).. was given to me years ago.

Now I want it gone, but I want it to go to someone that will appreciate it.

:wub: :wub: :wub:

 

Really?!?

 

I love those great old machines. I've kind of had my heart set on a foot-powered one for a while, just for nostalgia's sake.

 

At the moment my workhorse is a bottom-of-the-line Sears Kenmore machine, all mechanical with no computerized bits to go "pzzzt" at inopportune moments. I've sewn cushions, curtains, costumes, leather aviator caps, clothing for the whole family, and tailored suits on it.

 

This one has a foot powered block on it.  Its not a treadle.

Sorry you are so far away, it would be yours in an instant.. Le Sigh.

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 Watched the first four episodes of Miami Vice season one last night and today...

I picked it up for $7 at the used bookstore. It's held up passably well, when you consider it from an '80's perspective in relation to the technology and quality of the writing. In it's day it was mind-blowing television. Now it's merely mildly corny - which is saying something watching it again over 30 years later.

Also saw Slaughter perform at the free venue at the casino on Thursday.

 

 They've changed my schedule at work lately so that I work Sun-Wed, then have Thursday off, then work Friday and have Saturday off... :rolleyes:

So, on Thursday, my day off, I ended up at work anyway - helping one of the guys fix his car, which had broken down in the parking lot Wed. night... :rolleyes:

It turned out that the car was a yard car he got from his buddy for $300 and, somewhere along the line, somebody had tried to repair one of the battery cables by splicing the last four inches of both the cable and the ground onto a single piece of this, which was then wired to the terminal... :blink: :blink: :blink:  Yeah, fer realz...

Four different people have agreed with me that's the single most ridiculously ghetto car repair they've ever heard of. I'm amazed the damn thing even ran in the first place. And I realized when we went to fix it that a ratchet was the one tool I'd forgotten to replace when my car was stolen with the box of tools in the trunk. :rolleyes:

So, I spent  about four hours on Thursday learning something new about car repair.

 

Picked up all kinds of stuff lately...

- a ratchet, a set of wrenches, extendable mirror-on-a-stick and a wire crimper for my traveling tool box I keep in my car trunk

- a CSI novel

- another one of the Dresden Files hardcovers (White Night)

- the TY Beanie Baby "Millenium the Bear" in it's original packaging (not sure why, but figured somebody might want it or something, and it was $1, lol)

- the Bejeweled board game (because although they've got pegs on the bottom mounting them to their bases, those "gems" are basically blank d4's, d6's, d8's and d20's)

- an old opaque black glass Avon bottle shaped like a 1927 Bugatti (cuz it's just frackin' cool)

- a resin wall plaque of a dragon about 8 inches tall (another thing to add to my massive repaint it someday" list, lol)

- two Helping Hands w/ magnifiers that have been spliced together to form a new "traveling" magnifier stand for Paint Day

- the Ralph Bakshi animated The Lord of the Rings, Black Swan, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, Watchmen: The Black Freighter, Johnny Handsome (classic Mickey Rourke, from before he had his face surgically replaced with a bag of marshmallows) and Eyes Wide Shut, all on dvd

 

 

TL,DR version : Bought way too much stuff, accomplished nothing of note, didn't get any hobby stuff done.

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So how would you guys do 6mm SiFi infantry using only Reaper parts?  CAV is nominally 10mm so their infantry is insufficient.

If you want 6mm sci fi infantry you should track down some Epic 40k sprues.  They should be pretty cheap for a pretty large number.  They're actually the first miniatures I ever did in quantity, lo those many years ago.

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I have a 1947 Singer Sewing Machine).. in working condition.

The stupid light still works.. it is a wide harp machine (with ALL the attachments).. was given to me years ago.

Now I want it gone, but I want it to go to someone that will appreciate it.

:wub::wub::wub:

 

Really?!?

 

I love those great old machines. I've kind of had my heart set on a foot-powered one for a while, just for nostalgia's sake.

 

At the moment my workhorse is a bottom-of-the-line Sears Kenmore machine, all mechanical with no computerized bits to go "pzzzt" at inopportune moments. I've sewn cushions, curtains, costumes, leather aviator caps, clothing for the whole family, and tailored suits on it.

I have an old Singer that belonged to my great-grandmother. Only problem with it is the bobbin spooler doesn't have the hold it used to, so unless you hold the wheel Just Right, loosely threaded bobbin.

 

Otherwise it works like a champ. One of the first electrics, it's still attached to it's original base. Love it and used it just before Christmas to make some stuff.

 

And yes, the light still works.

 

Hate the plastic carp they call "sewing machines" these days. Designed to fall apart if you look at them crosseyed. <_<

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Watching the special edition of Aliens.  Apparently I have not done so before as I don't recognize this scene.  It feels like I'm watching it for the first time now!

 

The movie actually only makes sense in that form because the sentry gun scene added back in answers the rather salient plot hole of why there's no beasties between Ripley and the queen.  But I find the extended Hadley's Hope stuff, while interesting, does suck some of the creepy suspense away.  

 

Works better without it, because if you already saw Alien you know what's coming anyway so you don't need the exposition.  And if you didn't see it, and don't know what's coming, the extended "eerie silence" when the marines arrive, sans visual foreshadowing, turns the creepy factor up to 11.

 

Best form would cut the "living colony" stuff but keep the sentries.  That'd make it tight and leave no holes. 

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Welp. About finished a cave troll and an Aaron the Conjurer. Using nice, shiny Reaper paints. Actually painted the troll straight onto the Bonesium, which I've never been wont to do, but he seems to've turned out all right. Aaron I'd "primed" with blue liner, some time ago, and I's actually really irritated with how some of the paint wanted to go on. Like, Khaki. Didn't want to stick. Blue's always been the lamest primer for me, though. So I'unno. But might change some priming habits.

 

I don't know if I really like the paint all that much, but it is really simple. Just pick a paint and go. No thinking. I mixed a little white to try to really jump up a highlight for Aaron's spell effect, but otherwise just went with the triads.Don't know how I feel about it.

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