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Monday, August 5, 2013

My new Dremel (and on my worktable)....

or: "How my wife encourages me!!!!"

Dedicated readers will remember the death of my trusty Dremel
http://littletoysoldiersandsuch.blogspot.com/2012/10/ripmy-dremel.html

So for the past 10 odd months I have been without a Dremel, and due to the wicked combination of bills, and not enough money, and the "Dremel I want is not available", I have been Dremel-less....oh the agony of it all!!!

Until this weekend.

This weekend my wife (Gawd bless her!), encouraged me to get a new Dremel.
"Anyone you want." She said.
And she was happy and supported me when I got the Dremel 4200....
And not just the 4200, BUT on her encouragement, I also got the flexi shaft, AND the engraving tools!!!!
WOO-HOO!!!! I love her!!!!


What I got!...











 
  
MORE POWER!!!!! The Dremel 4200....





Wow..needless to say I am utterly amazed....and blessed...
So I got down to doing some painting....

First up, the base coat for the Five M24's that will form the main armor of "The Mysterious Fandango Republic"...

Problems for P'hat Daddee in the future???


 While over in the "Hills and Hollers"....

Lookout fellers! It's The Pritchett Gals!!!! (from L to R: Leeza Jean, Loola Jean, Lila Jean)

And I finally got around to making my Litko artillery fire impact markers and explosion markers that I bought at Little Wars this past April. These are nice little items and will come in useful...

BOOM!!!!


After this, we decided to head off to dinner at one of Indy's (and ours) best places to eat....




They had added some new beers to their menu since we were there last and we decided to try them out and HOLY HP LOVECRAFT BATMAN!!!!...."Mythos Beer"?!?!?!?!.....

 "Ia! Ia Cthulhu F'thagin! *burp!* (like literally)...."


 As always, The Saganaki was delicious....


 The Wife's (Gawd bless her!), Dolmades dinner...very nice!!!



While I went with the "A tour of the islands" kind of a Greek variety platter....very good, and filling, even the Mousakka (and I don't care for eggplant as it always reminds me of somebodys head...(it's a long story, don't ask)).....


So all in all, it was a great weekend!
Now to put my Dremel to work...

It's powerful enough to build an aircraft carrier!

WAIT!
What am I saying?!?!?.....


More to come....