Isengard Patrol Steamer, painting of...

Back on track

This is where it is at currently. Shovel wheels attached, most of the removable gear placed and kind of painted. I have only been home for a few days after my trip to summer. 

But let's go back a bit in time in the process of making this ship...

 

This little llama went abroad and had some nice interactions with girls at the beach and on hostels - perhaps not as nice as getting a lift on a surf board (as seen above) but plenty of touching firm girl-bodies and other niceties. Bondi was very decent and I started a few conversations/pick-ups-that-lead-to-almost-nothing at the place - even though I am not in the best of shape physically (talking Northern European standards here, in America I am probably seen as "starved" or "rather fit", sad to say - and sorry 'Murricans, I love you and your country, but the amount of fattityness is un-good).

I stayed in half a dozen places, and the last one was a hostel, due to wallet-related issues. As you all know I am in my mid-30's so I was in the older age bracket, which worked very well for me. The frying of eggs was interesting, as apparently, in Australia, you can only fry eggs in very small pans and may only try to flip the eggs with oversized spatulas. Oh, Australia, you little fucker...

Living the life in a hostel filled with Europeans aged 18-26. Most of the ladies in the room liked to expose their thong-clad butts - and I am not talking about the footwear here. So the stay, while obnoxious in it's core due to people over indulging on goon and drugs, had some definite positives. 

One of the better places I went to was up in Sunshine Coast, but we shall come back to that in the next update. I met with another blogger and hobbyist that you may know about...

Let's recap the ship: Steam ship of Isengard. "Curunir Steamer" or something one can call it.
 

Inside of the ship is not really detailed, I only made the top detachable for storing purposes as I still live rather cramped in this Tokyo-of-Sweden where I live.

Painted it in different shades of gray with rust streaks. There's very little difference between the parts that is supposed to be wooden and the metal parts.

 Notice the first paint layer, and my lazy way of making the huuuge bolts to stand out...

If any of you wonder why I did the bolts so sloppily you can see that Isengard is in good company. Took the picture above in Sydney just to show you. Square, worn down bolts in the middle of a European-style city. Big parts of Sydney around the CBD was more or less filled with trash and hobos/narcomaniacs. But I digress...

I then tried to darken the whole ship... I shall put white details as spot colour, but I really need to somehow either differentiate between the wooden hull and the metal building on top, or somehow make it look better... I really do not want to side step the worn, old look but I might just have to do that: Pristine black colour on all the metals above sea line, white coloured hull... not sure... Any input from you would be greatly appreciated!
 

I came back to Sweden... There had been three or four more grenade and bomb attacks against the Police as well as numerous rioting and "sudden attacks". Glad to find the above... well not really happy...

It doesn't matter, I shall sit back and think about Australia instead. Especially the KFC was more than decent. I remember barely tolerating it in America. In the Aussielands it was sooo good... you could really feel the trans-fats just zing your mind... The little popcorn chickens was just so nice to mix in with the mash and gravy... My gawd was it a simple pleasure...

And now I am home and slightly under the weather, not only due to physical reasons (a "cold") but also because Australia is dearly missed. Perhaps one day I shall seek asylum, it just needs to get a lot worse here for the UN to give Swedes asylum status, but I am sure it will happen within 20-30 years.