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Opening the box

November 15th, 2009 Ron W Leave a comment Go to comments

When I bought the Big-E home, I’ll admit it took a couple of hours of me looking at the box before I tore off the shrink wrap. Was I intimidated? Maybe a little…it’s 17 inches square, and 5 inches deep.

Big-E-Box

I finally gave in, and ripped the plastic off. The box was stuffed full of parts.

Big-E-Box-Open

I gave the instructions a once-over while looking at the part bags. I decided to take a look at the model’s base, to see how I could get it to support the actual model and it’s electronics.

The base

I consulted the Oracle of Google, and decided I could accomplish this with a brass rod through the center of the base. Out came the Dremel, and several drilled holes later, I got my results.

The base, drilled for display

Not bad. Off to the painting booth for priming…

RMW

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  1. November 22nd, 2009 at 22:01 | #1

    You are such a geek!

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