Couple of ships came in yesterday and left the most awful mess of scum and villany I've seen in ages. One K-3PO protocol droid came in, along with three bounty hunters (Djas Puhr, Bossk, 4LOM), three rebels (beardless Endor Rebel, blue-coat Hoth Han, Bespin Luke w/ bloody stump), and one member of Joker Squad (Hondo Karr).
Someone on RebelScum posted pics of the Q7 droid he made. The Q7 is the droid that rides in the Clone V-wing and is, according to the Incredible Cross-sections holocron he referenced, a spherical droid with repulsorlift flight. He made it using the recipie Bren suggested to me for the ball-droid James posted from the "Droids" cartoon - an R2 BAD dome with the bottom half of Vader's IT-0 droid. It works and works WELL! I'll have to see if I can pull it off for the DD-droid with a leg. I have a couple of the IT-0's around, so fodder for casting isn't an issue, like the R2 dome was. I'm hoping to work out a way to hollow-cast the BAD domes so that installing the foot doesn't involve cutting thru an inch of resin, but experiments will have to wait until Manufacturing gets more HS3.
Which reminds me - I found a supplier that sells HS3 and resin for a fairly reasonable price. The 'Station could even end up making a few credits off it thru their affiliates program. It wouldn't be enough to sustain Manufacturing's parts-making process, but it would reduce operating costs at least a little. I'll have to look into it more. Maybe if I put my affiliate-link in my sig on all the customizing messageboards I'm on, I'd get a few (2-3??) casters to order. Narceron keeps making noises about trying it out...
And in the realm of casting, I spoke by comm with a manufacturer's rep about materials that can be used to make flexible belts for figs. He recommended three products they carry. The company was recommended by members of a costuming community who use their products in almost industrial quantities. So that bodes well for expanding out of just rigid pieces and into the more flexible stuff.
Farzel Kenn finally got his store opened on the 'Station's holonet. So far, his only offerings listed are a bunch of low-tech dirtside military replicas. It's nice to see that ugly Ugnaught finally participating! Now if he'd just learn that holo's of his items are valuable selling tools! I think once Manufacturing starts turning out usable pieces in decent quantity, we'll look at listing production thru him.
The Spewkworm infestation has been brought mostly under control - the 'Station still has one lingering case. Now, however, someone brought in a case of Formellan Lung-rot. This has, of course, compounded the Spewkworm case as well as laid into some 80% of the 'Station's occupants - including me! I need to talk to someone in Medical about improving our decontamination procedures, it seems. Maintenance repaired the airducts and we installed new filters in the primary atmospheric processing plant, so maybe we'll start seeing an improvement from those efforts. In the meantime, the pharmaceutical suppliers on the 'Station are doing a brisk business.
I'm up entirely too early today. Rebe had the early shift, so I got up and had caf with her. Figured I'd just stay up and enjoy the quiet while it lasted. I'm sure I'll end up taking a nap later today. Maybe no major crisis will develop.
I need to work on painting the camo on the Sniper cloaks. If Maunfacturing has enough HS3, I need to pour up some more molds. Can't make any creds if the raw materials sit around in storage vats! I think I'll suggest going after some generic heads. Might see if we can get an Endor Rebel cap out of it, too. Reminds me, I need to post some links on the 'Yards boards for the folks to check out the resin suppliers and more info on Fixer. Farzel comm'ed me to see if I could take some holo's for an interested client! Well, well - so I need to have Marketing do that. Lonnie put together a dio she wanted me to holo and post. Lotta fiddly stuff to do today. Reckon I best get after it!
