Pixels
PIXELS by PATRICK JEAN.
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Bluesmobile fun
I have a Bluesmobile replica. Its something that I’ve been working on slowly over the last few years in between other projects. And its a nice relaxing project usually. Just about as low pressure as you can get when building a car. Not to say it isn’t difficult. In some ways its actually harder than some of my other vehicle projects. With most projects you have to figure out how to do something, and then do it. On a Bluesmobile, there is an extra step. You figure out how to do something, you do it, and then you have to figure out how to make it look old and crusty. Which often times is more difficult than the actual project you started on. 
Done, Finished, complete! Almost…
Finally. After hours and hours and hours of cutting, grinding, welding, cleaning, priming and painting, the trellis is finally finished…  Almost.  All of the parts are completed and painted. All that is needed now is to set all the parts in place, drill my last few holes and bolt it all together. With any luck, assembly will be today and finished photos will follow.
For now, I have a couple of photos of one of the finished front panels, and a shot of the painted front panels. Painting of the last panel was finished after dark last night, so photos of the roof panel and the rear bracket in final paint will have to be taken later today.
All in all I’m very pleased with how the panels turned out, and I’m very excited to see it all assembled and in place. Overall I was very impressed with the capabilities and the ease of use of the Millermatic 140 Welder. I’m planning on writing up a full review in the next few weeks. But I’ll tell you right now that for a little 110V welder that you can plug in almost anywhere, its a very capable machine.
Onward to the photos.
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- Single trellis panel. Finished
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- Finished front Trellis panels
Trellis front panels in progress.
I’ve moved on to the front panels of the trellis/arbor/large steel Rose structure. (I’ve gotten comments from poeple that insist its not a trellis due to the roof, which makes it an arbor. Contrasting opinions seem to think its not an arbor as it doesnt span a path like a traditional arbor does.) Regardless of terminology, I’ve moved on to the front panels. Which are coming along nicely. They are an intersting puzzle as they should work up faster as they are smaller, but I have to slow a little as I’m making both of them identical. So far they seem to be taking the same amount of time as the roof section. The speed increase that comes with practice and a better saw to rough cut the pieces, is being offset by the need to slow down to double check measurments from piece to piece to make sure they match.  I’m still aiming for a big finish for Christmas, but it may be tight.
These arent the most current photos, but they do show some of the progress on the front panels. I’ll be adding some more updated photos when I’m out there working on them next.
front panel sections
Still alive, barely.
I’m still around. I just have way too many things going on in my life right now. Which is leaving me with a serious lack of desire to post much here. Once I get some things straightened out and get back on track, I’ll be back. Until then. You are all on your own. No loud parties, drinking too much or lighting the curtains on fire while I’m away. Ok. Maybe the curtain thing is Ok. But only if they were really ugly curtains to begin with. But you didn’t get the idea from me.
As we near the witching hour…
Its that time of year again.� A time when skulls and blood and all things creepy and disturbing are accepted and encouraged.� Halloween time.� Although I’m not a practitioner of the over commercialized cutesy hype filled holiday.� I much prefer the dark, moody, creepy one.� No bright happy costumes here.� No Cutesy smiling ghosts and laughing� jack-o-lanterns at my house.� Nope.� I prefer full size caskets, hearses, disturbing bloody things, zombies, and pretty much anything that would send the cute little children screaming home to mommy.� Which tends to make for a frustrating shopping trip as most of the local places seem to think that cute and friendly is perfect for Halloween.� And we wonder why kids today are screwed up.� They haven’t had the living snot scared out of them.� They arent Afraid of things because we have watered down the holiday.� But I digress.
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