Euangelion
10-10-2014, 02:57 PM
Here she is finally in all of her glory!
Been a long road with this body and it's great to finally have it in shooting form and cleaned up from the original dead salmon color. A little back story, I had originally bought this body from a friend I worked with at the local store about 5 years ago. At the time I had plans to have it done up super fancy, but money going elsewhere and anodizers I had worked with before shuttering their doors put the brakes on the grand design. Winter rolled around and as usual something needed to hit the chopping block, and this body didn't make the cut. Sold to who knows who on whatever forum the body disappeared for a while with random pop ups here and there. Each time it came up I was unable to grab it and died a little inside. Earlier this year Paul listed it up again with his big blowout thread and it was time to pounce! Along with the body came a nice matching front block that originally I did not have so extra bonus waiting it out!
Around the same time Monkey Butt began their quest for world anodizing domination and I saw the opportunity to test their skill! I had sold Drew some DM bodies he was practicing on and was loving the results, so it was natural to send him my next project. I assembled my parts and here is what was sent in the original package:
http://i60.tinypic.com/2cz3w9l.jpg
http://i61.tinypic.com/10h23og.jpg
http://i57.tinypic.com/193w4j.jpg
http://i61.tinypic.com/2sbpox2.jpg
Also around this time I had purchased a Twister LV1 and Ttwo was just unveiling the Heritage series with the throwback colorways. I saw this fade and instantly knew that was the way to go:
http://i61.tinypic.com/1z3a2dg.jpg[/QUOTE]
And so the adventure begins. Drew received the package and got to work incredibly fast with nearly daily updates on progress. But this wasn't going to be the easiest project. Immediately Drew noted that the VASA was a different metal makeup (and noted that going with the clear ano would render this a moot point) and whatever was coating the front block wasn't being stripped away, so we decided to abandon that in the meantime and continue on:
Stripped:
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/06/12/3e9u6aga.jpg
Satan's Front Block:
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/06/12/emumyjer.jpg
In the meantime I got back in contact with Paul to try and figure out what might be the deal with the FB, while Drew and Co got their shine on:
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/06/19/yga2u5ag.jpg
Time to layout the fade line. We decided to base it on this old cave drawing from 10000BC probably and fittingly drawn by Monkey Butt ancestors:
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/06/24/6a3u9ery.jpg
The gun begins to take on that Dust Finish:
http://i1284.photobucket.com/albums/a571/craptacular001/F2C4C90D-C00D-4B31-A88C-B9CD0EA24172_zpswhqbx5fu.jpg
Fade applied, Cue 2001 A Space Odyssey music and picture Drew rubbing this down like monkeys on a monolith:
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/06/30/e4upy6yj.jpg
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/06/30/9ytevagu.jpg
Gun was completed and shipped back. At the time I had found a brand new chrome 99 FB to get the gun setup along with a brand new set of chrome Shocktech Pneumatics from Paul to round out the front. Through some kind of slut magic Paul also found another front block (I know he got another twister and graciously sent me that FB as he was going with reflex on it) and sent it to me. That was sent off to Drew for matching and was turned around incredibly fast and turned out fantastic!
Been a long road with this body and it's great to finally have it in shooting form and cleaned up from the original dead salmon color. A little back story, I had originally bought this body from a friend I worked with at the local store about 5 years ago. At the time I had plans to have it done up super fancy, but money going elsewhere and anodizers I had worked with before shuttering their doors put the brakes on the grand design. Winter rolled around and as usual something needed to hit the chopping block, and this body didn't make the cut. Sold to who knows who on whatever forum the body disappeared for a while with random pop ups here and there. Each time it came up I was unable to grab it and died a little inside. Earlier this year Paul listed it up again with his big blowout thread and it was time to pounce! Along with the body came a nice matching front block that originally I did not have so extra bonus waiting it out!
Around the same time Monkey Butt began their quest for world anodizing domination and I saw the opportunity to test their skill! I had sold Drew some DM bodies he was practicing on and was loving the results, so it was natural to send him my next project. I assembled my parts and here is what was sent in the original package:
http://i60.tinypic.com/2cz3w9l.jpg
http://i61.tinypic.com/10h23og.jpg
http://i57.tinypic.com/193w4j.jpg
http://i61.tinypic.com/2sbpox2.jpg
Also around this time I had purchased a Twister LV1 and Ttwo was just unveiling the Heritage series with the throwback colorways. I saw this fade and instantly knew that was the way to go:
http://i61.tinypic.com/1z3a2dg.jpg[/QUOTE]
And so the adventure begins. Drew received the package and got to work incredibly fast with nearly daily updates on progress. But this wasn't going to be the easiest project. Immediately Drew noted that the VASA was a different metal makeup (and noted that going with the clear ano would render this a moot point) and whatever was coating the front block wasn't being stripped away, so we decided to abandon that in the meantime and continue on:
Stripped:
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/06/12/3e9u6aga.jpg
Satan's Front Block:
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/06/12/emumyjer.jpg
In the meantime I got back in contact with Paul to try and figure out what might be the deal with the FB, while Drew and Co got their shine on:
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/06/19/yga2u5ag.jpg
Time to layout the fade line. We decided to base it on this old cave drawing from 10000BC probably and fittingly drawn by Monkey Butt ancestors:
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/06/24/6a3u9ery.jpg
The gun begins to take on that Dust Finish:
http://i1284.photobucket.com/albums/a571/craptacular001/F2C4C90D-C00D-4B31-A88C-B9CD0EA24172_zpswhqbx5fu.jpg
Fade applied, Cue 2001 A Space Odyssey music and picture Drew rubbing this down like monkeys on a monolith:
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/06/30/e4upy6yj.jpg
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/06/30/9ytevagu.jpg
Gun was completed and shipped back. At the time I had found a brand new chrome 99 FB to get the gun setup along with a brand new set of chrome Shocktech Pneumatics from Paul to round out the front. Through some kind of slut magic Paul also found another front block (I know he got another twister and graciously sent me that FB as he was going with reflex on it) and sent it to me. That was sent off to Drew for matching and was turned around incredibly fast and turned out fantastic!