As of Monday, May 11, 2020 at 9:00 PM pacific time:
| Track | Daily | Crush |
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| 1983 Reynard 83SF | 1972 Porsche 914-6* | 1990 Cadillac Eldorado Touring Coupe |
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| Because Race Car. | This is poster on the bedroom wall material. | This is your father’s Cadillac. |
* This car is way to nice and too valuable to drive daily really, so option two would be this beautiful Porsche 356 Speedster Replica or option three could be this great example a 1995 Mazda Miata M-Edition.
I was thinking that maybe my papercraft obsession was starting to fade, but the current edition of Car and Driver arrived in the mail today to rekindle it again. Featured on Page 7 was a papercraft Corvette. If any car could actually look good in a one sheet, low tech rendition, or what I’ve taken to calling cubist papercraft, it has to the 2020 Chevrolet Corvette.
Another time waster from Moss Motors: Car Cutout Challenge. I’m in. Trouble is, on their contest page all they have links to papercraft Miatas for the 1st (NA) and 4th (ND) generation. I have a 2nd generation NB, so what’s a fellow to do? Why reach back into the past and find the copy of the instruction sheet for the second gen car from his papercraft archives. Back in 2006 the Mazda Museum in Japan produce some square-ish looking templates for all three of then current, generations of Miatas, NA, NB & NC.
Like I did 14 years ago, I spent a couple hours “coloring” it in to look like my current Miata. You can see 2020’s results above. Here were the results of 2006’s Cubist Niata #1.
As of Monday, May 4, 2020 at 9:00 PM pacific time:
| Track | Daily | Crush |
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| 1965 Porsche 911 Race Car |
2008 Maserati GranTurismo | 1982 Zimmer Golden Spirit |
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| Because Porsche. | Because Ferraris are a dime a dozen. | My eyes! |
I guess I could have redone my Darth Vader CubeCraft one, but I wanted to try something new. This is a simple one sheet R2D2. I have a 4 page, much more detailed R2D2 papercraft template, but it would have taken a lot longer to complete than I had time for. Maybe if I start on it tomorrow I could have it finished by next May 4th.
Not only that, but every Sunday in May is going to be Super Bowl Sunday. So, not only has Major League Baseball opened up their archive of games to watch for free, but the National Football League has too. From now until May 31st you can get NFL Game Pass for free and watch any football game from 2009 to 2019. You want to watch preseason games? Sure, why not? Every regular season game? Check. Playoffs? Absolutely. The Super Bowls? You got ’em! You can even watch the Pro Bowl games, but for the life of me I can’t figure out why you would.
The nice thing about Game Pass’s football games, is unlike MLBTV, they have nicely edited out all the commercials1. They have even chopped out half time as well. Three and a half hour football games come in a little over 2 hours.
The bit of papercraft above is called Papercraft Propaganda and was created by someone who called themselves PaperTom and it is supposed to put you in mind of an old school Soviet statue. His web site doesn’t seem to exist anymore, so if you want to create your own, download the PDF here.
The last track I need to post that finishes up what I considered of or pertaining to the most perfect embodiment of a CD mix in December 2004. To see all 19 tracks in the numerical order I placed them on the disc, with any comments I made, here at Life of Brian, click here. To just listen to them in numerical order, check out my playlist of them on YouTube.
