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Sunday, November 24, 2024

Very Super Glue Gel

I don't like super glues.
They smell bad and the vapor is not healthful.
And it is hard to get all the glue out before it hardens in the tube.
This new bottle from Loctite changes that, I think.
This is a new type of dispenser.
Several versions of super glue are sold in this package, the super glue Ultra Gel is probably the strongest and best to use for resin cast, or 3D printed models, or lead models.
The ultra gel is supposed to be the strongest and good for pieces that have to be handled

This package keeps the smell at a minimum.  The dispenser has a pointy tip and makes it easy to apply a nice controlled application of the glue at a specific point.  I cut one open and it is a tube of glue, that has a special holder and squeeze handles, the blue part above.  I like it a lot.

 

Saturday, November 23, 2024

Tikimobile

I like the little fish tail.
I am not sure I will keep the wheels red.
It is a very interesting vehicle, I think.
The undercarriage is a good color.
I got two of them.
Nice little school of fish.
My plan is that The Tiki will use the Uncle Abe catering trucks as a cover for his nefarious deeds.
 

Friday, November 22, 2024

Piranha Car

Piranha Terror car by Hot Wheels.
I am working on my own Batman 66 villain.
Surfing and Polynesian themes were common in the early 1960s.
So I am doing a villain I call The Tiki.
He is a jungle themed villain.
This will be his official vehicle.
I know that the piranha is a fish from the Amazon, but the motif looks very Polynesian to me.
 

Thursday, November 21, 2024

Boom Car

Boom Car by Hot Wheels.
I have a small circus for my collection, there were even circuses in Germany during WWII.
This is a clown cannon.
Used to shoot a clown into a net some distance away.
James Bond in Diamonds are Forever visits the Las Vegas casino Circus Circus.  I have been there and it's very much like a real circus.
James Bond in Octopussy is all about the circus as Octopussy's International Circus is a front for diamond and atomic bomb smuggling.
In the James Bond movie Moonraker, villain Jaws fall from an airplane and survives by landing on a circus tent.
So WWII or James Bond, I needed a circus.
So this is one aspect of that.
It's a cute little vehicle.