Thursday 3 August 2006

Spaceships, DIY and Musical Instruments

Filled in the cracks in 3 of the downstairs doors last night ready for painting.

Following this I loaded up most of the rest of the Star Wars spacecraft into Celestia. Most of them looked pretty good. Because this is essentially planetarium software you can't fly the spaceships around, or start blasting away at them - one for future enhancements on the Open Source Project.

Best to start with the First Death Star, since this also loads Endor and Tatooine, around which the rest of the spaceships orbit. The X-wing looked pretty good because it had been put in an orbit so that it flies into, along and then out of the Death Star's trench.

Will have to put this toy away for a while, as updates are required on Novelist Supermum's website, and there's DIY planned for the weekend.

Been getting ready for Frodo's Birthday at the end of the month. We decided to get him some "proper" musical instruments that he can play i.e. one's that are designed to be played, and not as toys for kids. Nipped out to a local music shop and purchased a tambourine, guiro, castanets and a pair of maracas. The young lad who served me asked if I was having a Samba party.

We also need to get some more Dr Who figures to go with the large Radio Controlled Dalek (the plan is to wake him up on his Birthday by sending this into his room), so I reckon that it's a trip to Toys 'R' Us today.

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