Some updates from the past three days, smashed into a single post:
I\'z been shown a vishun uv Gork and Mork, an I hadz ta get to werkin\' on it!
DIS CHOPPA IZ TOO WEEDY FER DA JOB, SO I\'Z UPGRADED TO A \'UGE CHOPPA!
It wot took me\'z bout half uv one-a dem \'ours to chop my way out da uvva side, but I didz it!
Ya\'z see, I\'z gunna hollow it out and put all da worky bitz inna \'iz gutz, and close \'im up, but not \'fore I putz a hatch in da top fer changin\' da batt-rys. Dat way it\'z all sealed up good so\'z I can put wot-evah howdah I wantz on da top!
I ain\'t no zoggin\' madboy! Just youz give me a little bit ta prove it.
(It was an astonishingly good cut, actually. I missed
everything of importance with the saw - avoided the armor plates, the legs, even the squig-wang on the underside. I\'m going to hollow it out and remove the top of him as a hatch which will hopefully be hidden or concealed by the howdah. There\'s a couple cuts there as I worked up the nerve and broke jewellers saw bits that were far too weak to do the job, but those can be easily concealed, and the actual cleft cut itself is a nice and simple repair with a bit of greenstuff \'round the underside that nobody actually sees.)
It gets worse!
It\'s times like this I wish I knew electronics so I didn\'t have to bother with all this work, but so be it. That marked out block is going to be removed tomorrow courtesy of my dremel.
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And cut to today...
Oh ye of little faith,
behold!
Ya might have thought I was crazy, but tell me if this looks all that bad.
Barely a seam, eh? Alright, there is a seam, and there are a couple marks on it, but nothing that greenstuff can\'t superficially fix. This all gets easily hidden underneath the howdah anyway.
But wait!
A hatch! And underneath? Batteries and the circuit to amplify the speaker, in a compact (hah, not really...) box!
Enjoy this! It\'s a view that nobody will ever see of a squiggoth\'s rock solid resin insides. About two hours of dremelling with a very dedicated sanding drum carved this out.
It\'s alright, guys. You can say it. Come on, do it with me.
Woohoo!
I might not have been as mad as I seemed.
