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Yesterday I bought 2 Nerf Maverick guns (one for my boy, one for me), I had little idea of how cheap the things are, well worth the price.

Now the design of the gun is very nice indeed, but the colouring looks closer to clown vomit than anything approaching cool. Something had to be done.

Thanks to the advice I found on this page and a couple of cans of spray paint, I set about painting the gun to something more fitting it’s sci-fi inspired design.

Comparison shots for those at home:

My boy’s unpainted Maverick Rev-6

My repainted model, Blade Runner-ish.

Still needs work, such as a wood/leather looking hand-grip, maybe an LED shining out of somewhere and a bit more silver/chrome paint. As it is though, much improved and rather nice looking.

Wonderboy III: The Dragon’s Trap is one of the best games I’ve played. Released On the Sega Master System, a platform/RPG of wonderful design and silly levels of cuteness.  If you haven’t played it, please go do so now.

Made in honour of this under-appreciated gem.

(I suck at Photoshop, I know, if you can do better, please do so and let me know, I’d love to see it)

Some time back, I built my own arcade table (based off the “Cocktail” tables that used to be common in fish & chip shops and milkbars across the country.)

Since I was rather poor at the time, I had to build the unit out of the cheapest parts I could find; the end result was still rather good, and I’m quite proud of it, but for some reason, I’ve never posted about it here.

Basic make-up:

The unit uses an old Sega Master System connected to an old TV I found on the street (three cheers for hard rubbish!), after figuring out the controller wiring, I purchased some arcade buttons and micro-switches off the intertubes and wired them in place of the controllers. Put all of that into a wooden cabinet and top off with a nice big sheet of glass (the most expensive part, btw, took me some time to afford) and, ta-da!

So, why am I doing this now? Because the table (also known as the CockMaster – Cocktail Table + Master System = Cockmaster) no longer exists. It has been taken apart, inorder to build a new, hopefully better unit. The TV within the unit had been failing, losing horizontal control and getting fuzzier all the time.  I had always thought about building it using an LCD screen and using a Mega Drive for the games.

Here’s hoping it goes well, looking forward to playing some Ghouls & Ghosts

My very first set of self-made cufflinks.

Using the Scrabble tiles I was given on my last trip to LA.

Method:

1. Get tiles

2. Get some cufflink ends (I got mine from eBay)

3. Scratch up the back (gives the glue a surface to stick too)

4. Glue the cufflink ends onto the Scrabble tiles.

5. Done

Jefah and I have decideded to make a webpage to collect together pictures of things that look like faces.

As long as the thing isn’t an object deliberately made to look like a face, we’ll post it.

Here’s hoping it goes well

Two iPhone wallpapers that I’ve made from photos I’ve taken

Free to use.

Being a somewhat sensible lad, I figured I needed a back-up hard drive. Something to save my files in the ungodly event of corruption/fire/lightning/stupid. There was a problem: the standard drive enclosures looked ugly, and anything nice was way out of my price range. The solution: make my own.

So, here we have it. One store bought chinese-style wooden box + one 500GB HD + elbow grease = THIS!

Meeting with Ali’s friends in Boston.

Squirrels.

Boston cream pie.

First time ice skating (spectacular fall not shown)

Boston 2008