Today went to see the site for the new dude. I wanted to see what colours were around so i could choose the patina. It was all concrete & dark silvery reflective glass windows. the windows had such serious reflective tinting that it was like the sky & clouds were inside the building. But it was all big & concrety around the windows & all the stairs & walkways were grey concrete. The foundry guy was discussing the drilling they were gonna do. The concrete was "post-tensioned" which means there's cables inside it that holds the structure in tension. If you cut one while drilling it goes "ping!" like buggery and thats not at all good for tha structural integrity. So they need to be sure where the cables are in order to avoid drilling em. Of course the placement is that the sculpture's legs straddle a cable. Gonna need to be pretty careful eh.
Anyway in discussion with people who cared, it was put to me that the new dude needed a "bling" patina cos of him being a modern kinda guy. Old fellers can be very serious in dark patinas, but the youngsters maybe should be brighter. OK i might go with a dark red with under buffing so it kinda glows.
A matched pair of furbys arrived in the mail, off ebay, a replacement for little coco who shit himself with his battery acid. I was quite attached to him & he entertained many visiting kiddies. He sacrificed hs eyelashes to small children, and then when left alone a little too long his batteries rotted. But i can probably replace his battery holder, eh, so some future project will be pull old coco apart.
These furbys (furbii) have camo pattern blue coats with pink fronts. just where blue camo is gonna work is mystery but i guess furbululand someplace maybe. Old coco was a ratty brown one, more like a real animal. I dunno that i can bond with the blue camo twins here but anyway they will keep visiting kiddies amused, which is essential.
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