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Benevolens Magister
Thanks SE!
Well, I was going to post the shots of the Gustav in its totally finished state, before showing the completed scene with the diorama in a couple of days time, as I finished the final little details about an hour ago.
BUT!
I decided to do a bit more work on the diorama base for it, and found out that the latest batch of Superglue I bought actually works as advertised. It works so well, in fact, that it's taken me ages, using a scalpel, to separate the small pieces of real wood from the skin between my left forefinger and thumb! I was joining some bent wooden skewers, in order to make the 'trunks' and 'boughs' for a silver birch tree, and, although the wood didn't seem to want to bond together, it did discover that it liked to bond itself to my digits, and the latter to each other! Of course, in trying to remove the offending pieces of A) wood, and B) superglue deposits, part C) also became bonded, when part C) = the thumb and forefinger of my right hand!
Now, given that you have all recovered from rolling around the floor in a tangled heap, p*****g yourselves laughing at my expense, I can inform you that said left and right digits are now separated, but minus some of their exterior coating, i.e. skin, and have a lumpy, shiny membrane of hard superglue replacing the missing organic matter, therefore, there was no way I was going to try to pick up, let alone operate, my camera!
So B******s to it, I'm going to bed!
Terry.
Well, I was going to post the shots of the Gustav in its totally finished state, before showing the completed scene with the diorama in a couple of days time, as I finished the final little details about an hour ago.
BUT!
I decided to do a bit more work on the diorama base for it, and found out that the latest batch of Superglue I bought actually works as advertised. It works so well, in fact, that it's taken me ages, using a scalpel, to separate the small pieces of real wood from the skin between my left forefinger and thumb! I was joining some bent wooden skewers, in order to make the 'trunks' and 'boughs' for a silver birch tree, and, although the wood didn't seem to want to bond together, it did discover that it liked to bond itself to my digits, and the latter to each other! Of course, in trying to remove the offending pieces of A) wood, and B) superglue deposits, part C) also became bonded, when part C) = the thumb and forefinger of my right hand!
Now, given that you have all recovered from rolling around the floor in a tangled heap, p*****g yourselves laughing at my expense, I can inform you that said left and right digits are now separated, but minus some of their exterior coating, i.e. skin, and have a lumpy, shiny membrane of hard superglue replacing the missing organic matter, therefore, there was no way I was going to try to pick up, let alone operate, my camera!
So B******s to it, I'm going to bed!
Terry.
