After about 6 days, I have finally finished the painting and building of my sleigh. I made one huge mistake during the build and had to unbuild it. I forgot to put the steel marble in the little cage that is beneath the Christmas package. I just love how cute this is. I tried to upload a 6-second video but it wouldn’t do it from my cell phone and my computer is down.
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Its amazing how good you get the paint to cover it all. Even after 4 layers mine wasnt that nice
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Thank you. Sometimes the edges do take a couple of coats. With yellow, for me it always takes four or five. These are very cheap paints from Walmart but @Liset uses a very good paint that covers well. I know she is close to you so maybe she can tell you the name of it and you can find it.
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Yay! You finished!! 
How’s is your elbow doing?
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It’s very hard to work with the splint on so I only manage a little bit a day. This is day five of two weeks with the split on. Not any fun at all but I’ll get through it. Thank you for asking @Atropex
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Yeah it’s called Amsterdam. She told me. If i ever paint again then i will use them. Maybe I’ll laint the pinball machine i got
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Maybe I’ll finish my paintball machine someday…
@Jerry_Boswijk that is a huge undertaking for your first real job that you want to paint. I’m just warning you.
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Wow the colors makes this build amazing 
awesome job @Nita_Davis
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With the lighter colors you’ll have to paint the edges sometimes with more layers but i’m very happy with the acrylic paint of Amsterdam
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The pinball is very hard to paint it took me 2 months before i could finished it @Nita_Davis @Jerry_Boswijk 
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Soo cool! Im glad I got to see your Christmas version. I will have to make sure to not forget the marble when I build my version.
Hopefully soon.
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Thank you @SunnyCee . I had already put my sleigh together and everything when I noticed that little steel ball and I wondered where did this go and it was about a full page back and I had to tear my whole sleigh apart to do it. I wish you the best of luck because it’s really fun if you do it right the first time.. LOL
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Thank you so much @Liset . I just can’t bring myself to go back to that pinball machine yet. I will definitely finish it someday
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I made a similar mistake when I build my recent puzzle box. I accidentally installed the front cover upside down. You can actually see it in my photos. I broke the cover trying to take it off. (That is the down side of self locking pieces. You can’t put test things together dry and glue it later)
But I was able to glue the broken pieces back together and it’s very sturdy now.
I try to avoid using gue at all costs in case you do have to pull something apart. I’m very happy I did not use glue on anything around my sleigh area. Things definitely break when you are trying to pry them apart but they are super glued. I wish you the best of luck on your next adventure @SunnyCee
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You should only start when you feel like it again, building should remain fun 
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Im so glad you managed to get it back together after pulling it apart i think i would have been a bit stressed about that!
Your paint work looks so great as always 
well done, especially with your injury, you have done a fantastic job!
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No problem! 
I’m happy that you can still manage to do some building with your injury! What do you plan on doing next?
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Thank you so much for your kind words. @Nectarines . I feel like it took me forever. I think I only spent eight days on the space shuttle.. LOL
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Hahaha it must have felt soooo long for sure its good to see it all come together at the end and it be worth it though! 
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