I can’t remember if I talked about this already but I bought some sealant ages ago to see if I could take the cardboard backdrops you get with some action figures these days and make them a bit more durable. It worked quite well, although the curing time is two weeks for a complete cure. It stops being tacky after thirty minutes or so and is more or less solid in a day. The main thing I wanted to use this on is the throne that came packaged with Power Of The Primes Optimus Primal. It’s pretty basic as far as being a cardboard chair, with a plastic seat, but it also has a rotatable plastic halo for all of the various Prime Masters. I think it would have been better is it had actually been part of the toy rather than the packaging, but I know why they did it. The cost would have been too prohibitive for an item that was already niche and wildly overpriced. My intention is to sculpt a new seat for the figure with some moldable foam that I have and coat the entire throne with sealant to make it more permanent. Also maybe make a wooden weight for the base so it is less likely to topple over is it gets jostled. It doesn’t have to last forever, it just has to outlast me. Over time these sealants tend to discolor and crack, but it depends on the conditions they are kept in. It won’t be in direct sunlight so that’s most of the problem solved. At the end of the day all things deteriorate, and there’s no point in getting so attached to something that you can’t bear the thought of its eventual destruction. I just want this thing to last a bit longer than it might otherwise and look nicer while I enjoy it.

The thing I’m talking about. This guy doesn’t show the actual throne in great detail but you can see what it is at least. The actual set is called Throne Of The Primes, which is ironic since the throne itself isn’t really technically part of the toy. It’s packaging. Anyway, at one time I had grand ideas about trying to sculpt and entire replica of the throne, but realistically I’m never going to sit down and do that. Doing a little arts and crafts on it will have to be enough. I’m still testing to make sure the sealant doesn’t cause any issues in the short term, but I’m fairly confident this will be enough. I want to do something similar for the Star Wars Black Series Jabba The Hutt, since it doesn’t come with an actual dais like the original toy. Ideally I can just find a nice box with the right dimensions and then sculpt some stone heads for the front, or maybe 3d print, some then stick them on and seal the thing up for display.

Anyway, that’s more than enough of my shenanigins for tonight. I hope you have a nice Wednesday and also hope to see you back on Friday. Support links up above as usual. Until next time, till all are one!

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“This is my pizza. There are many like it but this one is mine.”

That’s a throwback to a previous issue. Nice reference.

I actually have that Optimus! I hope that throne thing works out. Mine ripped around the base and I ended up putting it into storage.

I question if there is enough pizza to make her think properly, but go with it!

Ah yes, pizza is a well-rounded meal, not just because it’s already circular. It has the carbohydrates in the form of the crust, which satisfies the grains part of the food pyramid. The sauce is tomato-based, so the fruit & veggies additionally gets covered. The cheese covers the fats (in the carbs, proteins, and fats section) and the dairy in the food pyramid, then there’s whatever meat topping you go with, pepperoni, sausage, whatever, that satisfies the proteins part and the meat part. Carbs are short-burn fuel, proteins long-burn fuel, and fats are emergency storage, and Maddie there has nice storage. Not to take anything away from Victoria there, who has her own attractiveness unique to her…

“Pizza will help” may be one of the universal truths. ?

Apologies: ? is a failed smiley there . . . :-D

there is no aspect, no facet, no moment of life that can’t be improved with pizza. Daria said it best

Many people lament the boredom of a small town, but stuff like this makes me wish I grew up in one. I can’t really think of any local businesses that had any sort of impact around me as a kid. Sure, there were local restaurants and hardware stores and such, but they were largely indistinguishable from the corporate ones; they had no real unique identity and nobody cared. Even now, there are local places I frequent, but I don’t really care about them, it’s still just “business.” There’s no collective identity where I reside, we’re all just here, strangers as neighbors. I know people from small towns call it suffocating sometimes, everyone knowing everyone else and going to the same places and doing the same activities, but I occasionally wish I had that sort of close comfort. Grass is always greener I suppose.

2745 Pizza Will Help.

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