#roller force

[thelastgherkin]

LEGACY Voyager Armada Universe Starscream

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Earthrise Micromaster Race Track Patrol: Roller Force and Ground Hog

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I took a cool picture of the plastic robots

[jimclassicstoycollection]

Transformers

War For Cybertron

Earthrise

Roller Force & Ground Hog 

by Hasbro (2021)

I don’t exactly remember when I got this set, but I picked it up at a Big Lots for about $6.

I don’t really have a lot to say about some Micromasters, but Roller Force and Ground Hog are Decepticon Micromasters. Okay, well I guess I’ve said enough about them.

Alright, fine...

Roller Force is a blue sports car while Ground Hog is a pink race car.

They both look okay, and roll well.

In robot mode they both stand adequately, however Ground Hog is a little back heavy, and sometimes has a problem with stability.

They both have basic articulation, ball jointed shoulders and hip, hinged knees, and waist swivel.

In the original G1 toys, this Micromaster team had a third member, Barricade. Maybe THIS Barricade? Who knows, but I’ve decided that Roller Force and Groun Hog are his Irregulars. 

It’s a Sherlock Holmes thing...

Oh yea...the two can combine to become a ‘gun’, which the style at the time...

It looks stupid.

It’s a big ‘ol shoulder cannon? It’s a mess of a look.

Roller Force and Ground Hog, are just okay. I’m glad that I got them for cheap, and Barricade’s got the band back together.

[chronurgy]

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[ohnoitspheo]

All my Coastergirls so far! 🎢

[comicallysmallcereals]

Thought I’d post a bunch of my old malevolent doodles since they’ve just been laying around.

[rotten-apple-stims]

Master Shake (Aqua Team Hunger Force) board with milkshake and pink stims

(requested by @cordshake; stims specified)

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Proship / Comship / RPF Do Not Interact Please !

[mothlau]

roller derby leztappen........ roller derby leztappen......... school princess charles who somehow ends up w the ragtag group of dykes who run into each other for fun..... high femme charles who wants to prove she's more than just a pretty face and that she can play dirty and who finds a family who accepts her and welcomes her in spite of their differences....... thinking.... thinking many thoughts.....

[prrplefungi]

I got myself some roller blades!!! Its kinda hard to learn how to use them but its fun, hopefully im good at them by summertime

[pearl-kite]

So I came to the realization today that I am not going to get anymore work on this trunk done this year. I still need to finish stripping the paper inside and redoing that, but it's just. Not happening until spring. With that realization, I decided it's time to finally bring it back inside, put all the junk on my floor that used to be in it back in it, and guys

It looks good.

This is going to be a summary post of the project, so let's go back and remember what I started with. Back in, like, 2015 or something, I bought this dome-top steamer trunk at a missionary shop for $65

Yeah. Rough. But underneath that paint it was sturdy, and the only thing missing was the lock and the right-side hasp. While I lived overseas this sat in my parents' house, and when I got back I kept meaning to do something while storing all of my yarn and cat food in it. When I finally got my own space (almost a year ago now!) with my own garage, I finally decided: it was time.

Heads up, this is a long post under the cut.

Did a lot of research online, grew to hate how generative AI has even permeated niche topics like how to refinish a vintage steamer trunk, WHY is there generative AI for that, PLEASE stop, went to Lowe's and bought some supplies (I used Citristrip for the paint stripping, it worked VERY easily), and started stripping that hideous brown* away.

Almost instantly I could tell how good it could be. The tin looked amazing, and for most of the stripping process I wondered why on earth someone would cover it with any color. It took multiple layers of stripping, and I got better at it over time.

I did also start to see some oxidation issues with the tin that made the purpose behind the paint job a little more understandable.

One side was particularly bad, but I will never forgive the decision to paint the entire thing one single color.

At first, the flat metal seemed okay, but the longer I worked on stripping, the longer it was exposed to air, the rustier it started to get. I had already planned on coating it, and I ended up getting some Rust-Oleum Rust Reformer spray paint. Instead of removing the rust, it bonds to the oxide and stops the process from continuing. It also happens to leave it a nice matte black that didn't need additional painting. I taped everything off, then sprayed.

Then it was time for the tin. I looked for ideas, and the best one I found was Rub'n'Buff. It's not so much a paint as a pigmented wax, with the idea that you can buff it to a higher shine. As I was stripping paint, I found a spot under one of the slats that the painter missed, and the original tin had been painted a gold color, so I used that to decide on color. I decided on Grecian gold, though I used the antique gold as a kind of base to make sure the Grecian stretched far enough.

I originally started applying it with some craft foam brushes, but they didn't really want to work for me, so I ended up buying a pack of makeup sponges, the little disposable wedge ones, and the finer texture worked much better. I had to trim them down pretty frequently, because the wax would build up and stop applying as nicely, but there were more than enough in the pack to finish the job.

The coverage is amazing for this stuff. This side was the worst of them, and one layer of the stuff was almost perfect. The Grecian gold was almost a bit runnier, though, and ended up needing a second layer to cover some patches that were almost too thin, thus the other underneath.

This tin is so pretty though. I still kind of regret that it needed it; the places that weren't oxidized were so bright in a way that the Rub'n'Buff had no hope of emulating. There are some places you can still buy the embossed tin for rehabing trunks like this, but I haven't found one with a pattern quite like this, and this one is so much nicer than the ones I've seen. I'm very glad that it was all intact except for where the lock goes.

After the tin came the slats. I knew from sites like Brettun's Village that I wanted to use tung oil, so I had bought what I thought was tung oil. Turns out Minwax gets to call their tung oil finish that even though there's. No... tung oil. in it. ? So uh, if you want actual tung oil, do NOT listen to Minwax, they're lying, I don't understand why it's allowed. It still looks nice enough, but quite annoying.

Speaking of Brettun's Village, they not only do their own restorations AND provide a guide, they have a very extensive supply of recently furbished and original parts. They happened to have a nearly identical hasp to the one that was missing (so nearly identical I only noticed after my dad pointed it out) and an old lock also similar to my original, made in the late 1800s/early 1900s.

The next step was to tackle the inside. Instead of just adding more paper on top (like the last people did, so now there are two layers, one of which hides some original stickers ;3;), I decided to try to scrape that out, and I've found some structural issues that the metal and slats outside have held together and kept hidden.

The top split in the wood is an actual crack on the front that needs fixing. The middle split is just the gap between the planks. The bottom is also a crack, but not as extensive as the top one.

So the final steps, when I get the motivation again come spring, is to finish getting as much of the paper off as I can. Then my dad is going to help me use some bondo to hold the cracks, and I'll find a removable wallpaper I like. Then I can sort out what I'm going to do with the lock. That top split runs right through where the lock should go - you can see some of the wood filler we already put in from where the original was ripped out - so we can't try to put anything there or it'll crack worse.

But I brought it in today!

It looks so good, I glance over and get to feel so satisfied; I did that.

*I don't like to call any color hideous, because a lot of the time it really depends on the context, and it's an okay brown. But for THIS? It was probably the worst brown they could have picked. Mixed with the orange of the paint stripper it looked like I was scraping diarrhea.

[saturnniidae]

Modern AU Astrid would like rollerderby I think. She'd be on a team with Ruff and Heather. She'd be a blocker, along with Heather (you get to shove people) and I feel like Ruff would be a good jammer. The rest of their friends come to cheer them on at matches and even practice sometimes

Another great part of rollerderby is you get to pick a cool name for yourself! Heather literally already has the perfect one, "Heather the Unhinged" goes so unbelievably hard

Astrid would also do kickboxing. On the side. Also for their first date Hiccup takes her axe throwing in an attempt to woo her with something she enjoys. (Totally not so he can stare at her biceps while she throws.. what Totally Not. He's so unbelievably intimidated by her strength; he is head over heels) He thinks it's worth it even if he looks pathetic in comparison (it's okay tho she helps him out)

[shadystranger]

the switch from worry for sam to appealing.. oh he knows how to fuck him up so perfectly tailored for him

[green-ejgyhdgghvfk]

I don't know why but I feel like these two would be best friends.

[quiet-gal]

Help me

[darklight-phantasm]

they were born in eatistan, baptized in mother lake, studied cuntology in servington together and graduated with gagree

[flojector]

i have literal hundred of these little clips from various rides and after recently discovering this gif making feature… yay! so now you can see them