Updated on 10/6/2013 - Go to end of thread for more... For pics and progress on Vanilla's Nixie Tube Eyes, Click Here One Time!
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Take heed, some day he'll be a lyrical poet... for now let's focus on scrubbing the 27 years of lead battery acid and insect detritus from his yellowing shell - with a little help from Jacques the crab and, ever the looky-loo, Mr. Bubble!
I wanted to called this guy Mr. White Christmas but my son Z was set on Vanilla Ice. He's in the early planning stages and remains as yet unmodified. And here he is all uncovered and bare, getting his clean on before his eventual transmogrification...
Let's kick it!
Wait, am I in a Bathtub?
I Clean You Now!
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Yo Duck, you're doing it wrong!
WTH mate?
man u make some creepy videos!
Why thank you!
So I enlisted the boys over the weekend to help whiten Vanilla's aging shell. Oh, and my son informed me that Duck is actually a Platypus - explains a lot about his behavior but makes his name rather confusing.
Anyway, we were all set to create a fabulous Retr0bright Pictorial in the Tutorials section when our little experiment with eye-burning chemicals went a tad awry. No one had to go to the hospital or anything but one of us wound up needing a little more than his usual tops n' tails treatment:
In truth, we experienced multiple points of failure (i.e. lapses in judgement) that ultimately resulted in a failed, though very instructive, first attempt. Vanilla's exterior is several shades lighter than it was prior to the treatment but I'd say we're only at about 50% of our goal of Whitey McWhiteness. I think the primary lapse in judgement was relying on the availability of the sun rather than digging my UV lights out of storage.
So we're planning on round two this coming weekend with a few upgrades. I'll be digging my UV lights out of storage and I'll also be upgrading the 12% Hydrogen Peroxide to a concentrated, skin-melting 35% formula (although I'll be using about half the amount).
Round two here we come...
We needed to blow off a little steam after our Retr0bright fiasco so we thought we'd pick up our spirits by putting humpty's head back together again and mounting his new-fangled stereo speaker/LED backpack (it was either that or a fanny pack).
Music is currently being piped into his backpack speakers from a laptop headphone jack.
The 7 light pipes and LEDs that comprise his brain are connected to an internal WiFi 7-antenna array by Ruckus Wireless, currently mounted in the base. The LEDs visually represent the activity occurring on each antenna. It seemed like it would be a good approximation of brain activity with the added benefit of a roaming WiFi access point. My smartphone and the laptop playing the music were both connected to the Internet via this roaming "Ice Ice Baby" AP during the filming of the video...
We're about 4 hours into our 2nd application of Retr0bright... The shell is definitely getting whiter but I think we may be looking at one more application for the parts that had uber yellow spots. Good thing I made sure to purchase enough chemicals for one more round!
I also gave the Retr0bright treatment to an Interaction Eve from 2007 that was left in a window and had yellowed quite a bit on one side. I just checked and she's already back to pure whiteness!
About 4 more hours left to go in this round...
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