Good Morning!
And a fine, warm morning it is at 32°F with no stars present in the sky; so it's cloudy for now. I can hear water dripping from the eaves-trough outside, so it's warm enough to melt snow! It's probably a good time to get outside and scrape the walkway down to concrete, and hope it dries before the re-freeze. - I'm hearing it rained over-night further north of us.
My wife has made a dozen 3-layer masks with filter material between the outer layers. Real nice ones, too; with pleasing designs on the outside. Mine are black with colorful butterflies on it. I believe if I make a tinfoil helmet to go with it, I'll be well protected from anything that comes. I'd post a photo of me wearing the outfit, but, that's just another way to get the ignore button pushed on oneself.
Yesterday, I did a little more on the hardware store.
I decided to install a pair of WS Just-Plugs, cool white, just to make sure! They couldn't be tested, as I couldn't find a proper power supply. The roof will be removable anyway, if there is some issue.
A 1/2" hardwood piece was also installed, cut from a paint stir stick. I wanted to stop any play for when the flat-roof gets covered with ballast material:
The top of the roof was spray-bomb blacked, but I might change that to a dark brown. I don't plan on an overly thick layer of gravel-look ballast up there, so a dark paint gets rid of the light color on the plastic. - All the pieces to the puzzle are nearly ready to put together:
And I made a couple of signs in different sizes, just printed on copy paper. I made 6 copies of each, just in case I mess it up. My thoughts are the bigger one is the better choice:
The larger sign was glued onto a piece of very thin blister-pack packaging material, after the plastic had been roughed up with sandpaper. Then the design was carefully cut out and the edges blacked with a felt.
The finished sign has a 2nd Ace copy glued on top, to hide the bit of felt-tip mess and make the white more white. A double up also helps straighten out the edges.
The sign needs to be clear-coated. That will be done today:
Hope you all have a great day! See ya later! (if you haven't pressed ignore, yet)