So just some odds and ends right now to blog out more recent things.

I survived the weekend. Thank god that is over with now. Friday wasn't so bad except for the customers who wouldn't leave and making everyone stay later... when it's already late. Sucks for me since I don't get back home til 10:30 and just barely have the time to cook dinner, eat and sleep. Back up again at 6 am.

The second day I'm just tired but kept myself busy checking orders as I usually do on Saturdays. My frame shop got rid our computerized mat cutter machine so I helped take it apart and pack it up. By the end of the day my eyes are sore... I go home, eat, shower, chill and then sleep for 12 hours... back up at 9.

I really did not want to go back in Sunday since my eyes still hurt and I getting a headache. But I went and suffered through the day.  So I had to scan out and pack all of the mat sheets we no longer needed. Those things get heavy when you have a bunch of them together and packing them up with random boxes is a chore... but eventually it got done.

So my frame shop is pretty much in the pits now. No more in-house mats. Though I am capable of doing them by hand, there's really no point since we won't have any good mats in store anymore. It's just that our poo is too expensive for the average person. That and we rely on a vendor to actually do the framing work who often times are not quite perfect. Most of their pieces have to fixed by myself or the manager. I'm getting off now, but anyway it's going down. Part of the shop is going to be converted into storage space. Like the shop isn't crowded enough already.

Anyway... Monday.

Time to build a new monster. I got a Crossbone Gundam last week and after a few color schemes I finally settled on this.

Black and grey mostly. Red and gold details, orange lining. The underside of the cloak will be a metallic red with the outside a high gloss black. 

 So Monday i sorted and prepped the parts, made out my paint list and checked my airbrush. My airbrush was a bit gunked up... hadn't used it in a long time so I let it soak in acetone. I also have a couple of fake engine inserts for my dad's model aircraft to paint. So I shopped for paint and got about $36 worth... Had to special order a special thinner online for my washes. Hopefully I'll get that next week and not have to hold back for too long.

And Tuesday I started paint work. Focused on the frame and getting the metals done with airbrush. Of course something always goes wrong. Somehow I'm getting a backfeed back into my paint bottles which it making paint leak out. It pisses me off because it's a waste of paint. I just didn't quite have enough to do all I wanted... probably cause of loosing some paint. But I got all the important stuff and I can use another color for the rest. I'm down to working on the frame now.  

So that's it. I should probably go sleep now.