Do not fear, this is a temporary change…
New banner atop there, and a new counter added to the side.
I couldn’t get my javascript counter editted to display Christmas unless I removed the Halloween one. It would only display one or the other, not both. (if anyone knowledgable in the language is reading and knows the problem, let me know) Unwilling to do that, I’ve had to grab a freebie off the dark recesses of the internet. In all it’s ghastly jollyness.
A few things in my adult life have come to give me a hate/love relation with Christmas. And, in the darker years, I thuroughly despised the season. I do, however, enjoy watching the kids get their enjoyment.
We had to come to some kind of compromise, for I don’t wish to ruin the ‘magic’ for the kids. So, last year, I made Jack.
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| From Christmas |
In a whole host of “it was a good idea at the time” moments…his face was made by making a rough form out of Crayola Model Magic.
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| From Christmas |
Then covering that with some air dry procelain and getting him a paint job. I wanted to see if the porcelain would work for future Halloween projects, see…
And, it worked rather well…that year. Over the summer, Jack’s face has cracked and chipped, proving my fears of the porcelain. So, his face is getting a new touchup, in my more tried and true Powergrab…more to see if my problems with it in October were just the result of a bad case, or a change in formula, than it is a proven method at this point.
He also needs some new legs and hands. The hands were not strong enough last year, they’ll be stronger and look better this year. And, I messed up his legs last year, naughty me…making them too short then trying to graft more length onto them.
See, while the Zombietronix bipedal calculator is good at making human porportioned frames…Jack is supposed to have abnormally long arms and legs.
And…if Jack’s reconstruction goes simply, we might even build him a little Zero to go with him.