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Machax Modness in Progress ----> Take II "Plastic is your friend"

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The three toad sloth finally showed up with my machax. I was originally going to send it off to the clich man for moddiging but decided to see how bad I can screw it up all by me onsey first. First off a trip all over town for the required army of mod tools: sears-new files, radio shack - pcb etchant, staples - vinyl sheet, hobby store - stickers, Hardware store - paint. Crap, mod stuff is spendy I could almost order another BK4.
Now I feel like a dumbass for asking clich to do it in the first place not having a clue what it would have cost + the time.

So armed with interwebz leanred ninja mod skills, some patience and a bag full of junk let's see what happens

Got one of these, Made it almost 5 minutes before stripping it

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Blue stickys ftw!
I printed out some edited pics I wanted then drew them on the vinyl then cut them out. Cutting out little tiny lines of stuff kind of sucks a bit.

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Just in case I lose it at a crime scene I can always get it returned this way. Sticky Sticky, apply liberal amounts of patience here lining stuff up

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And go paint

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BK4 artwork for sale! Limited edition hurry!
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Let dry, or cheat and chuck it in the oven and let the wife witch about paint fumes for awhile. Then go find something to dump the etchant into.

Something dark this way cometh
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Should be out in a couple hours then back to stripping then time for some file work then a clich-bath. Will update as progress is made.
 
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I habe a feeling this is going to be awesome....can you drop a hint about what you intend to file?
 
Looks like a fun project. I'll be watching for the results!
 
Now that is cool! I wish I had a sweet dragon logo! LMAO

cant wait to see what it looks like man!



Im still waiting, u aint done Yet????



still waiting....



done NOW!....nope. still waiting
 
Ok update time,

Hey Sky remember when you took chemistry like 8,000 decades ago? Anything about acid and aluminum maybe ring a bell, you know the big bell that says NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO You IDIOT!!!!!!

Well....fishguts. This is interesting, looks toxic how am I going to clean this when its rock hard like pumice. Hmm let's see chemistry,,,, was it add water to acid, or acid to water something about explosions hmm damn all I can remember is a blonde girl with hair down to her butt and that until they can make gold chemistry is boring. Oh well, sink time.

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Didn't explode, what a friggin mess to clean looks like the etchant spent all it's time turning into whatever that was and not alot doing anything else. And everything is closed tomorrow. Awesome, ok well monday I need a new pan that is amazingly non metallic and a new bottle of etchant. But on the bright side I haven't ruined the BK4, yet. The garbage comes in the morning so the wife will never miss that pan that she can't find and there is no evidence of. I suppose I should think about ordering another one on monday just in case.

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it is times like this that I am so very grateful for the invention of a single word... Schadenfreude :D :D

Good luck with the repair job, man!!
 
WOW! I am looking forward to how this turns out. I'm subscribing so I can see how this unfolds.
 
I think this is going to be really cool skystorm, cant wait to see if the finished product. Oh and it's always add the acid to the water because it is an exothermic reaction. The other way could be dangerous only if the acid is really strong.......any who MMMMMMMM I need to get a machax!
 
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