Geekery

I managed to twist my back within a half hour of waking up this past Saturday so I’ve been mostly confined to my desk at work and my recliner at home all week. It’s a shame too, the weather has been perfect all week. Low 70sF and mostly sunny. I’m slightly ashamed to say that I twisted my back while trying to bend and unplug my laptop charger from the power strip so technically one could say that I hurt my back while checking e-mail…

I tried to be productive with my time while resting my back, I finished a piece of artwork for a set of decals for scale model cars. As most of my readers know I love researching and building scale models of vintage historic race cars. Most of those cars no longer exist and the realities of racing in those days caused them to appear slightly different at each race so the accurate documentation and replication of those cars can be pretty difficult. I see myself as preserving history through building accurate scale models of these vehicles that no longer exist, I was lucky enough to be able to see many of them actually race but for most people the only way they will ever be able to experience these historic vehicles is through seeing a scale model of it. These decals will accurately replicate several of the 1959, 1960, and 1961 cars driven by Rex White, the 1960 NASCAR National Champion. The artwork will go to the screen printer this week, I hope to have the actual decals by sometime in late January.