Clipper rides again...

Thank you for over sized card board boxes that make
excellent spray paint enclosures.

Some of you may be wondering what about all the other little projects I have going on.  Did I forget about them?  Well, some of 'em are on the back burner.  And there are projects I haven't even posted about yet.  But besides the Build-A-HQ project, I've also made some progress on the clipper front.

 Here are a few pictures of some of the pieces that I spray painted yesterday and are sitting in the garage until the fumes wear off. My goal is to paint them in an urban camo pattern.  I did some research online about the best way to do this, and I decided to go apply a grey base with spray paint and then do some black and while tiger stripes by hand using a brush.  We'll see how it turns out.  Hopefully it won't look like utter crap.

If only I was as good with paint brushes
as I am with spray cans.

As I stated in my last post about this project, I removed the two front attack-trak treads as well as the front grill.  I will replace the treads with wheels and the front grill with a beard trimmer attachment (heh heh... get it? "clipper"? get it? because the attachment goes on a hair clipper? get it?  oh, you got it?  good deal.  Moving on).  So yeah, here is where I am at the moment.

I used a cutting wheel dremel attachment to cut the extra pieces off of the trimmer attachment so it looks more like a set of vicious cutting blades instead of a plastic shaving guard.  It was my first time using a cutting wheel on a dremel, and man, I gotta say using it was fun.  The dremel ate right threw the plastic like it was play doh.  A step that I thought could be a pain in the rear turned out to not be an issue in the least.

I am not sure what the ETA will be on the next steps of this project.  I'm really excited about the Build-A-HQ effort at the moment, and I think my energy is going to mostly go to that.  I also have a lot of work to do for school, so my hobby time is at a premium.  But as I get things done I will take photos and update here.  Hope you are well.

Until next time.

David D.