7/21 OK...... im back !!
Posted by Dr Diecast at 7/21/2008 7:10 AM and is filed under uncategorized 
Well....... its been a few days since I posted anything and as I have said its due to my being very busy. Not with intense in depth projects but the little things that take so much time.
First off.... as some know the website was a down for a couple days. I decided to move my domain host to my website host and its a 5 day turn around in which the domain name had expired with the original host..... long story short it was down for about 2 days but shes all back to normal now.
Over the last few days I have worked on finishing the t-birds for shipping. As I stated when you looked at the pictures of the 5 there was a lot more detail work to do. In some cases 2-3 hours per car. See while the disassembly, prep and paintwork takes time the assembly is the most time consuming. I have told the birds owner that I will in the future be charging more to paint these. They are just so so time consuming over your standard issue high end piece.
I also found time to do the finish detail work on the Black 34 with the triple strip and used some modeling putty to smooth and fill the little imperfections in the wheel.... remember its the 3 spoke I made from scratch (almost). Well I got the wheel ready and mounted in the mold box and poured the silicone and 4 hours later...... found out that the modeling clay is not compatible with the silicone mold compound. The mold is no good and the wheel needs to be re detailed as the clay never dried and where it was on the wheel never dried in the mold.. so that was a waste of time. Hey, I learned right ? Guess thats all that counts.
I also got the inside of the dragster body painted with a shiny Grey like primer finish so all I need to do is some light detail work and that can leave.
I did get those cars boxed and shipped....... so I thought. I do not do a daily pickup anymore with UPS since they charge you $17.00 a week if you don't ship anything and if you don't ship enough product to meet there minimum. So I called them to come pick up the boxes and set them on the covered porch area where I always keep them for pickup. Well I apparently put them out AFTER they stopped by... so since they were not there (apparently I wasn't home either since they normally ring the door bell) the boxes sat there. Since I never use my front door and you can't see it from the path on the street I travel I didn't find out they were still sitting there until Thursday I think...... maybe even Friday when the postal carrier stopped by to drop off an express mail package. Ugh..... now im sure they will charge me the $6.00 I think it is for a scheduled pickup even though they didn't get picked up.
OK......... thats about it...... im sure there is more I just cant remember. Oh yeah... pictures of the finished birds tomorrow. We had a weird stretch of cloudy days here over the last 3 in sunny AZ, lol, so I couldn't shoot pictures the way I wanted.
So........ Im out !
First off.... as some know the website was a down for a couple days. I decided to move my domain host to my website host and its a 5 day turn around in which the domain name had expired with the original host..... long story short it was down for about 2 days but shes all back to normal now.
Over the last few days I have worked on finishing the t-birds for shipping. As I stated when you looked at the pictures of the 5 there was a lot more detail work to do. In some cases 2-3 hours per car. See while the disassembly, prep and paintwork takes time the assembly is the most time consuming. I have told the birds owner that I will in the future be charging more to paint these. They are just so so time consuming over your standard issue high end piece.
I also found time to do the finish detail work on the Black 34 with the triple strip and used some modeling putty to smooth and fill the little imperfections in the wheel.... remember its the 3 spoke I made from scratch (almost). Well I got the wheel ready and mounted in the mold box and poured the silicone and 4 hours later...... found out that the modeling clay is not compatible with the silicone mold compound. The mold is no good and the wheel needs to be re detailed as the clay never dried and where it was on the wheel never dried in the mold.. so that was a waste of time. Hey, I learned right ? Guess thats all that counts.
I also got the inside of the dragster body painted with a shiny Grey like primer finish so all I need to do is some light detail work and that can leave.
I did get those cars boxed and shipped....... so I thought. I do not do a daily pickup anymore with UPS since they charge you $17.00 a week if you don't ship anything and if you don't ship enough product to meet there minimum. So I called them to come pick up the boxes and set them on the covered porch area where I always keep them for pickup. Well I apparently put them out AFTER they stopped by... so since they were not there (apparently I wasn't home either since they normally ring the door bell) the boxes sat there. Since I never use my front door and you can't see it from the path on the street I travel I didn't find out they were still sitting there until Thursday I think...... maybe even Friday when the postal carrier stopped by to drop off an express mail package. Ugh..... now im sure they will charge me the $6.00 I think it is for a scheduled pickup even though they didn't get picked up.
OK......... thats about it...... im sure there is more I just cant remember. Oh yeah... pictures of the finished birds tomorrow. We had a weird stretch of cloudy days here over the last 3 in sunny AZ, lol, so I couldn't shoot pictures the way I wanted.
So........ Im out !
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