Between our weather being in the 70s and then snow the next day...Pam has bronchitis, and we have been running around to way to many doctor appts. Had two more whopping water bills and paid $350 to have our water line pressurized to check for leaks.....no leaks. Guess terlets are running? Back down this month. Pam swears our neighbors are stealing the water!
Anyway, I thought this was close to being finished. The more I work on it the more things fall off. Sort of like old age, I guess. With all the fiddley bits for the mirror brackets, some were sure to break. While I've escaped from breakage, two did go missing. One upper support bracket and one mirror bracket.
I ended up making replacements out of some styrene rod and a bit of sheet styrene. For the mirror brackets, I spent way too much time trying to heat the rod and make the bends. Every time, the first one was okay, the second one would not work. So, I gave up and glued, using butt joints and sheet styrene for corner gussets, some rod and then cut a couple of pieces of styrene tubing and split them. Glued them on the brackets for the mirror support.
On the mirrors, I painted up some clear plastic sheet, scored it with the Silhouette cutter and glued it on the mirroe. Thought it added a bit of dimension to the critter.
I realize this isn't much, but it is what I've been doing.
These will be cut to length and the mirror brackets sanded down to a more scale-like look.
