davidd's A DOLL A DAY 2023

[davidd]

Sorry about the water heater.  Houses are money pits.  Hope you get it fixed soon.

The water heater was a major annoyance because money happens to be really tight right now. Somehow I scraped together the funds from a variety of sources, made the hour and a half drive to Home Depot, purchased a water heater, made the hour and a half drive back, and swapped out the old one for the new one... and it worked! Yay!

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Back in December 2017 I began constructing a steampunk or dieselpunk industrial background out of styrofoam packing material, spray paint, and random bits of wire. This is what it looked like then:

Steampunk Diorama - December 2017

I find it hard to believe I started this project nearly six years ago now.

The basic structure still exists, and I've used various iterations of it in occasional photographs, but, as happens all too often, the setting was neglected, and ended up becoming a dumping ground for all manner of rubbish. This is how it looked earlier today:

Steampunk Dumping Ground

I have other plans for the shelf space this diorama takes up, so I decided to move the steampunk set to a different location. In the process of moving it, I figured I may as well clean it up a little bit to see if I could salvage it. To my surprise, it cleaned up rather nicely. Even more surprising, after six years, the battery-operated built-in lighting still works... without replacing the batteries!

It's still a work in progress, and needs considerable touch-up to be fully functional, but so far it's not looking half bad:

Steampunk Diorama Reborn!

Here's another version, gussied up with Instagram filters:

Auxiliary Generator at Wardenclyffe, circa 1907