I have been busy with cutting cans and watching other people work… and various other “retired” activities. Yes I am real slow lately of updating this blog and making posts but hey… I am busy here…
a little over a month ago I finished up a bi-plane… single machine gun and neat blue cans…
I have determined that GS#2 has been left out of the airplane mix so he gets this one… since he is moving to is own bedroom he needs ceiling art to match his brothers room…
In the process My son decided he wanted a special plane made form Colorado brew cans and picked the model… a really new one with a different build method than the last ones… the outcome is about the same but a bit slower for me as I am not good dealing with gluing… but I got it done this past weekend… I think I tore it down and rebuilt it a dozen times to get a finish on it and still it is not as smooth as I had wanted but I am calling it done and maybe the next one will go smoother…
The special beer cans from Colorado… I was not that into the beer so he had to make several others enjoy that slightly bitter, hoppy beer… but hey I did my part and drank one…
I did get the logo’s fairly even on this one
Also added some new pieces to it… bombs and drop fuel tank… also had to do some cut, and trim to make two double props into a quad prop as I couldn’t find any quads and for realistic appearance this one supposedly had a quad prop… The things unseen are the printed out and pasted in control panel… little details are important but a pain at times…
in the middle of this airplane I picked up a new can thing… with the Christmas season and all I had see pictures of Can Angels… so … hey I can do that… worked on the pattern from the pictures and then got these made…
We had save some old Christmas Coke cans and I had a left over Bush can that has Christmas trees and mountains on it so made some little Angels… well the wife said that was cute… so she took some to give away then it turned into… she needed 3 more then 5 more and I think I ended up making 2 dozen… or more? they have been spread all over by now…
oh but we still have a few more… I dug through the old can box and found some Christmas Diet Coke cans, had a left over piece of Colorado beer can and have a few more special ones to do… Note the Santa’s and Polar bears are from 2004 and 2005 Christmas specials… we saved those cans for airplanes but I think the angles might be a better use? Although I may have enough to make one airplane from a couple of the years… who knows…
In the midst of all this the Kitchen is still only a partial done project… waiting on the island and last of the counter tops… , and every night while working on the cans I get distracted with Radio stuff… Still chasing that final state for the 160 meter WAS… not hearing anything from the upper far west yet… along with that we have BB games and Wrestling matches and various other things to go to… so we are busy people here…
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