About That Chair...

 ...the one I mentioned in the previous post.  Here 'tis, in situ:

Printed Parts & Pals

Recently I needed some chairs.  Well, really just one chair right away but more on that later.  After trolling the 'bay and coming up empty I turned to Shapeways.  There I found this seller who offered chairs and desks.  I already have desks.  I need chairs.  Thankfully, the seller was kind enough to bundle the chairs together without the desks.  

In order to offset the shipping cost I took a look at what else he had to offer and was delighted to find amphibians!  I model Florida and that means gators.  I lived there and sure enough, hang around the water long enough and you see them.  I've canoed and even swam with them.  Good times.  But more often you see turtles and occasionally frogs and toads.  

As of this post I've painted the gator and the chair, but not the frogs and turtles.  The gator will likely show up from time to time as a sight gag.  The chair has already found a home behind the station master's desk in the Ocala Springs depot.  More on that in an upcoming post.  The frogs and turtles will make it into the creek scene, someday, on the Pine Branch Park railroad.

 

If you want to purchase amphibians of your own, or any number of other neat parts, check out David Yale's Shapeways shop: https://www.shapeways.com/shops/dcyale?li=pb

Playing with Paint

With the station project nearing completion, I needed to paint two figures before I could wrap it up for now.  But before I did that I decided to insert a mini-project I'd been putting off for a while.  I store my paint bottles in a tray down in a file box.  This works well but has one major flaw - I can't tell what color the paint is unless I lift out the bottle and look.  And even then it isn't accurate since the paint will dry a slightly different color than the way it looks through the semi-translucent bottle.  So a while back I asked my wife for some of these little round stickers and she happily shared them with me and there they sat, with the paints, for months.  Okay, maybe it has been a little longer.

 

The two figures for the station were not the sole impetus for this project, however.  There lays ahead a far greater painting task, one calling for paint that performs better than these craft paints, at least as they are straight out of the bottle.  And that's the subject of another post...