We Daren’t Go a-Hunting

For fear of little men!* Before Yule, there was quite a bit of top secret crafting here on the airship.  We promised to tell you about it, so here’s mine.  Being a German family, the Nutcracker  figures prominently on the mantle.  (the objet d’art, not the ballet) We have acquired a small collection over the years, and in the last two holiday seasons I have added to it myself. This year I made this one.  I am nearly as delighted with the little fellow as I am with he who inspired him.  It is, of course, a portrait of my beloved husband, the Fearless Fabricator.  I got the hair just right, didn’t I?  (Compare with the In the Lab photo) And look at his wee belt.  He’s sporting a telescope, and a disruption device (it’s like a grenade, but instead of shrapnel it produces a gentler distraction, such as loud music, or a plague of locusts), and lovely gears and deadly sharp clock hands. Although I will need to get myself a lathe or develop a better source for some of my future nutcracker ideas, I was able to make this fellow from a paint-your-own kit, slightly kit-bashed about the …Read the Rest