{"id":4467,"date":"2022-09-09T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=4467"},"modified":"2022-09-08T23:33:38","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T03:33:38","slug":"grandpa-would-smile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=4467","title":{"rendered":"Stop crying, Shinji."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Back near the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, I decided that I would place an order from Big Bad Toy Store<\/a> for models. One for me, and one for each of the kids, and we’d assemble them together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MonkeyLinkMega’s Dragonball Z model<\/a> came together very quickly, and is still doing the model thing. It doesn’t stand up to heavy play, but it poses well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ace of Hearts’ Sakura model<\/a> was an absolute disaster. I abandoned my own model to help with hers, and it was a complete wreck. In the end, we returned it as defective (with photographic evidence) in return for some wonderfully nerdy blankets that are still in use today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My model was EVA-01 from Neon Genesis Evangelion<\/a>. I got most of the torso assembled on that first day, but then it sat collecting dust for around a year. Off and on, I’d pay it some attention, and I got the head assembled and attached to the torso. But once again, into the dust-collecting box it went. Then came my current push to tackle unfinished projects!<\/p>\n\n\n

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I got the arms and the legs done rather quickly, but paused again – life tends to happen despite best intentions – before I finished the gun, knives, hands, etc. If I remember correctly, the kids were here when I got everything put together, raised my arms in the air, and yelled, “IT’S DONE!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then I turned the last page of the manual, and on the back cover was the guide to placing the rest of the incredibly small stickers. Oh, no.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had raised false hopes in both myself and MonkeyLinkMega (because he is waiting with varying levels of patience for me to begin my next project), and then dashed them. A couple weeks later, I knew I wasn’t going to put these tiny little jerkfaces on the model all on my own, so I used my writing\/crafting setup to stream it<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, it’s finally finished, and I think it looks great! I’ve learned that this is not my kind of thing, and that I should buy my toys pre-assembled (Lego being the exception that proves the rule). Not only do I now have a story tell, but a model to show off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well worth the struggle, I think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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