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Cybergeek's DIY Chess Setby cybergeek on December 24, 2007

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Cybergeek's DIY Chess Set ......................................................................................................

Intro: Cybergeek's DIY Chess Set ..............................................................................................

Step 1: The initial plotting ....................................................................................................

Step 2: Piece-planning ......................................................................................................

Step 3: Supplies! ...........................................................................................................

Step 4: Construction begins! ..................................................................................................

Step 5: The saga continues... .................................................................................................

Step 6: The armies begin to take shape! .........................................................................................

Step 7: Avengers, assemble! ..................................................................................................

Step 8: I'm board.... .........................................................................................................

Step 9: More Board .........................................................................................................

Step 10: I've been framed! ....................................................................................................

Step 11: Egads! Progress! ....................................................................................................

Step 12: Further board progression .............................................................................................

Step 13: STEP OF DOOM! ................................................................................................... 1

Step 14: Almost done with the board! ............................................................................................ 1

Step 15: Final preparations ................................................................................................... 1

Step 16: Final preparations, part 2 - Aerosol fumes are my frie- I CAN TASTE COLORS ..................................................... 1

Step 17: Board Creation, ahoy! ................................................................................................ 1

Step 18: Final result ........................................................................................................ 1

Related Instructables ........................................................................................................ 1

Comments ................................................................................................................ 1
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Intro: Cybergeek's DIY Chess SetThe how-to of the chess set I made my (now ex-) girlfriend for Christmas.

Step 1:The initial plottingSo, I decided that for Christmas this year, I'd make my board-game loving girlfriend a chess set. This, however, would be no ordinary chess set. No, this chess set worock her socks right off, given half a chance.

The first thing I needed to do was decide how big I wanted to make the board, so I could plot out how big to make the pieces and such. I was trying to decide betweenhaving each square be 1.5" and 1.25" to a side - the red outline in the picture would, of course, be for the 1.5" squares. I'm pretty proud of how I did this (graph paper your friend, folks!), especially with the overlapping and such.

Step 2:Piece-planningHaving decided that I'd go for a square-size of 1.25" per side, I now had to decide how I'd build up my pieces. I've made one of these sets before, so all the really diffithought processes were handled - all I really needed to do was to map it out for myself.

And so I did.

(I may have adjusted some of these heights later on. I can't quite remember. Damn you, lousy medium-term-memory!)

I realize that it's silly to draw out a box for each and every piece since, in theory at least, all of a given group (i.e. pawns) will end up being the same size. I did it anywato help myself keep track of what I'd done, and where, and such.


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Image Notes1. I math goodly. Just adding up and documenting (to counter possible mis-mathing later) the total length for the back-row pieces.

Step 3:Supplies!I went and got stuff - and a LOT of it.

I purchased:

1x 12"x12" (OR SO THEY CLAIMED! (more on that later) ) x0.5" wooden board16x Acorn nut1x box of like 70 hex nuts32x washers32x flange nuts4x slotted nuts4x wing nuts4x drywall anchors4x finials (again, more on that later)5x 4"x10"x0.008" sheets of ...um, tin I think.4x large flat angle brackets4x smaller vertical angle brackets1x 24"x12" piece of plexiglass2x threaded rods @ 3' long x 0.25" diameter, 20-thread1x bottle of superglue2x Piece that I can never remember the name of - I'll highlight one in a future step2x whiz nuts1x can of metallic-fleck blue spray paint

4x flat metal pieces with holes pre-punched in 'em24x flat-headed screws (not talking about slotted vs phill ips here, I mean the actual head of the screw is flat. Not rounded, or hex-y, or whatnot.)32x hex-headed slotted screws

I already had on hand:

a visea hacksawsharpies in red and blacktape1x can of sterling silver spray paint4' of metal edginga power drill with assorted bitsa centering punchan industrial strength (not even kidding) paper cutter. Seriously, this thing could cut your leg off without a lot of effort. Plus it's like 2 feet square, weighs like a ton. Trusme, you'd know if you had one.


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Image Notes1. Bucket o' hex nuts2. Acorn nuts! These actually came in four 4-packs, but I grouped 'em togetherhere for convenience.3. Test base4. Test of the original blue paint I found in the workshop. Yuck.

Step 4:Construction begins!Okay! We has the stuff, we now can begin the FUN part! Wheee!

First thing I did was sketch out on the board whereabouts my actual tiles would be going. I honestly kinda dig how that turned out, in and of itself. Very minimalist, kindmodernish (I think; I'm not an art major). Note that there is, in fact, a border around the edge of the board. Those of you with fast memories will recall that I decided to with 1.25" squares, and have a board that claims to be 12"x12". Those of you with fast math skills have already realized that 1.25 * 8 = 10, not 12. Thus, I've got aboutinch all around the outside of my board.

Funny story (well, not really, but it's important): Ace Hardware sells me this board, says it's a foot to a side. Being the trusting, naive guy that I can be, I take them at thword. Turns out, the board's actually something like 11-and-13/16 inches by 11-and-15/16 inches. It doesn't SOUND like a whole lot of difference, but it's enough topossibly throw a monkey wrench into our plots. Long story short: MEASURE THE STUFF YOU'RE BUYING!

The more you know.


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Step 5:The saga continues...Next thing to do is make the bases for the pieces. Each piece (except the queens) has an identical base - namely, a flange nut superglued to a washer.

To ensure that the washers and nuts were minimally offset from each other, I devised a spiffy solution: I put all the washers onto a long 1/4" 20-thread bolt I found layinaround the workshop, with one of the wingnuts underneath them. Then I would thread a f lange nut down onto the bolt, apply the superglue, stick 'em together, and - athis is important - move the STACK away from the new base-piece.

It's important to clarify that because of two things: 1) Superglue and torque don't get along well, especially when the superglue is still bonding (even if it HAS, in fact, bat least 10 seconds, I found out, superglue can take a while to solidify), and 2) Superglue and your fingers *do* get along well. Very well. Painfully well, if you catch mymeaning.

By moving the stack away from the base piece, we can ensure that no undue torque is inflicted upon the still-drying superglue, and we can also ensure that our fingersdon't get bonded to the damn thing.

Image Notes1. The whole apparatus - at this point, the flange nut is NOT, to the best of myrecollection, glued on.

Image Notes1. Flange nut and washer, becoming best friends forever

Image Notes Image Notes


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1. I didn't spin this thing *up* initially, I spun the rest of the contraption *down*.Glee!

1. I feel like an assembly line...

Step 6:The armies begin to take shape!Here's where the fun really starts.

I took the threaded rods I purchased and lined 'em up on the graph paper that I had the piece-length outlines on. Using a sharpie, I marked off which threads to cutbetween (note: if you're not planning on painting your pieces after they're finished, y'might wanna use something not so...permanent. Just a thought. :D ) . Many scorchfingertips (metal gets REALLY hot when you saw through it. Go figure.) and sore arm muscles later , I had the cut rods for my pieces. The image below is a mock-up ohow I was planning to make 'em look. They are, from left to right, Rook, Knight, Bishop, King v1, King v2, and pawn.

At this point, I wasn't sure how I wanted to do the kings - I ended up going with the v1 style. I also changed the rook design a bit. It's hard to see in the picture, but theoriginal idea was to have the hex-nut-stack that the rook is composed of alternate so that one layer's side would be below the next layer's corner, etc. I ended up just

making them all align the same, as it was much easier and cleaner-looking.

That piece I'm using for the bishop's head there is actually a brass piece from a lamp we used to have. I ended up not being able to find that exact thing anywhere, anwent with finials instead. They look almost identical, but finials can be found, whereas the brass whats-its are not quite so findable.

Image Notes1. The key-shaped King head, which I later decided against.2. I can't decide if this is more of a Samurai-ish head, or just a Big Honkin' Important Piece-ish head.3. This is the original design for the rooks, with angles and sides alternating from layer to layer. It looks spiffy from this angle, but from any overhead point of view, itlooks off-kilter to me.

Step 7:Avengers, assemble!After much manufacturing and painting, here's how the pieces look together. I put them on the flat sheets of metal that I'd previously spray-painted one side of withKrylon's Sterling Silver paint (we ran out and need to get more. Gah.), with a couplea squares of metal with the blue paint on 'em for an idea of how the board will lookwhen it's more completed-er.

In order, the Kings, Queens, Bishops, Knights, Rooks, and Pawns:

Image Notes1. Ah! I see your schwartz is as big as mine!

Image Notes1. Note the lack of f lange nuts. The base that the queen already has is widerthan the top of the flange nut, and thus, putting it on one looks goofy. I


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assembled the washer/queen-base exactly the same way that I did the otherbases, with the spare rod, and the superglue, and so on.

Image Notes1. Finials were a pain in the neck to find, largely cos I wasn't sure what theywere actually *called* at first. I managed to find these at Ace Hardware - this isonly part of what you actually buy, so don't be confused if you ask for finials and

get a thicker cylindrical thing instead of this ;)

Image Notes1. Lots of people seem to think these guys have poor balance - and I can totallysee why. They're freakin' HUGE. Thing you gotta remember is that the head is*hollow*. The center of mass is still well over the base of the piece, so you reall

don't have to worry about balance too much. They do kinda poke the pawns inthe head though...

Image Notes1. I ended up having to superglue the nuts in place, one at a time, since theydon't line up neatly if you just spin 'em down the rod. Clearly, this is aconspiracy designed to keep awesomeness such as this from becoming aglobal phenomenon. >.>

Image Notes1. I'm pretty sure acorn nuts were designed for people to make chess pawnheads with.

Step 8:I'm board....Heh. Board.

Anyhoo. Now that the pieces are good to go, we can set our sights on the board. My plan is to have the main board be four (maybe f ive, depending on how you count)layers deep - the wood plank on the bottom, then have that entirely covered by 4 sheets of silver-painted metal (they come in 4"x10" sheets, I've got 12"x12" to cover, do the math) and the individual blue-painted squares on top of that, then the plexiglass cover, and the large/flat angle brackets on top of THAT.

Then, since that is clearly not enough, around the outside of the board is going to be a thin metal frame, with L-brackets ("corner braces", I think is what the store calle'em) on the corners, and ...um, flattened corner braces(?) in the middle.

Here's how the board looks now, without being done at all (cos it's not) - note that the red sharpie lines are on the plastic COVERING the plexiglass; they will not stay the plexiglass once that has been taken off:

I later ditched the "four sheets cut into pieces" idea in favor of a "one biiiiiiiig sheet" for the layer immediately on top of the board. More on that later.


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Step 9:More BoardFirst thing to do is futz with the frame. Why? Because I'm writing this, and that's how I decided to do it.

The edging that I used does not, of course, come pre-bent. It comes, in fact, in a rather decidedly *un-bent* shape. So, what we do is, put the board in the edging, rotathe board three - NOT four - times (four rotations would give five sides, you see), and cut at the far end. Then, carefully indicate where your corners are going to be, acut the frame so that you have a 90-degree angle positioned 45 degrees away from both edges (looks kinda like this: _\ /_ ). In other words, you want to be able to beyour frame 90 degrees and have the corners look natural.

After cutting and bending, here's what we've got:

Step 10:I've been framed!Next step is to mark on the frame where you're going to dril l holes to hold the brackets and braces and what-have-you. My solution: put the corner brace on the frame(like, hold it there), and trace the circle or make an "x" in it or something. Remember, we're gonna be painting over all of this later, and even if you decide not to, you'regoing to end up DRILLING OUT that X or circle, so don't worry about it affecting the end product too much.

After you've got your holes marked, get a centering punch (makes little dents in otherwise smooth finishes that drill bits can center themselves in), and punch in thecenter of the marks. I found that I got much better results if I did this while the brace or bracket or whatever was still in place, since they don't like holding on too well.(The braces have rounded corners, whereas the frame's got more squared-off corners).

Then, get a couplea high-grip clamps, and a piece of scrap wood that is AT LEAST A LITTLE THICKER THAN THE FRAME. I capitalized that cos it's important. Put thframe on the wood so that the area you're gonna be drilling is on the wood, and clamp both frame and wood down onto the table that you're drill ing on top of. Use a drbit that is equal in size to the hole in the bracket that's already there, and have at it! I found it immenselyhelpful when drilling the corner holes to use a nut and bolt (nuon the outside) to actually hold one of the braces in place, to help with the positioning of the other 3 holes. They don't have to be perfectly centered, but the closer to itthat you can get, the better.

Here's how my setup looked during the side-hole-cutting-outing:


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Image Notes1. Holes to be drilled. You can barely see the notches that were made by the center-punch as little white dots in the larger red dots - these will keep the drill fromsliding around on the smooth metal surface.

Step 11:Egads! Progress!After you get your holes drilled, I found it was very handy to grab the next size up drill bit and manually scrape off the burrs (on both sides) from the drilling-out. Also, tto make sure your screws actually *fit* in the holes you've drilled for 'em - they don't need to slide in and out seamlessly, but you should be able to use a screwdriver t

get them in.

THEN, you're going to want to check and make sure your brackets and braces and such still fit on the frame. You may need to flip the braces around 180 degrees (I knot why) to get 'em to work optimally, but when you're finished, you should be able to do something like this:

Image Notes1. This screw's head has already been painted - I found an old silver scrapbooking-intended marker pen laying around and tested it out to see if it matched the sprapaint - lo and behold, it did! Saves a lot of paint that would otherwise have been wasted on touch-ups and the like.

Step 12:Further board progressionNext step is to drill the holes in the plexiglass that the screws will go through. Note: You *have* to drill slowly, or you'll crack the plexiglass, and that's just not fun. Whadid was I used the extra plexiglass I hadn't thrown away yet (or recycled or whatever I end up doing with it) to test how fast I was able to go through. The dri ll press in basement is an awesome thing to have for this step.

After you get your holes drilled, trace 'em onto the board with a pencil, as shown in the 2nd photo.


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Image Notes1. By the end of the drilling, I was just using one of these and my hand - movingtwo clamps was just not going fast enough.

Step 13:STEP OF DOOM!Next thing to do is to pre-drill a hole for each screw in the board itself. You want it to be a very small hole, since screws can dig their own way in if they need to. Basicayou want the drill bit to be about as big as the screw MINUS THE THREADS. This is important enough that I made a separate step, with just one picture for it.

And so of course, the picture sucks. Such is life.

Image Notes1. The diameter of the drill bit is almost exactly the same as the diameter of the screw, sans head and threads.

Step 14:Almost done with the board!Last step on this part of the board (i.e. not the frame part) before we put the squares on is to get the screws in their holes. Layer up the wood, plexi, and angle bracketand screw 'em on in. Note that in the pictures, I've used the hex-head screws instead of the flat-head screws I mentioned back in step 3 or so - I found out that I kind ofail at aiming, and the screws wouldn't be able to lie flush with the brackets. Rather than have a board where the screws are obviously trying to be level but failing, Ifigured I'd just use the hex-headed screws instead. Make it look all intentional. I'm clever like that.

Also, the first picture for this step shows the industrial-strength paper cutter I mentioned before. It's the green thing the board is on. Remember, the wood block is aboufoot square. o.O


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Image Notes1. IT'S HUGE!

Image Notes1. Clearly going to need more screws.

Step 15:Final preparationsLast thing that needs doing before I can actually, you know, MAKE the thing, is the painting needs to be finished. In the first image below, you'll notice that I've gone amade a nifty little holder-upper-thingy for my angle brackets. I realized AFTER the fact that the outer edges were gonna be covered by the frame, and that the INNERedges were what needed to be painted. Mutter grumble grr.

The blue squares are also getting their paint in this step; you can make a few of 'em out to the left of the bracket-holder.

For those who were curious about how the frame would get painted, I included a picture of the apparatus I made for that too. (Sti ff wire counts as an apparatus, right?....Right?)

If you're concerned about the obvious excess of paint visible on the floor and pipe in the top picture, don't be - all spray painting has taken place in the coal chute roomYes, my folks' house is old enough that it has a coal chute. And no insulation. >.>

Image Notes1. Blue squares

Step 16:Final preparations, part 2 - Aerosol fumes are my frie- I CAN TASTE COLORSNow all that's left to do is the clear-coating! For this step, I set up a mini-table in a separate room of the basement with a board and two sawhorses - I needed to be abto get all sides of the pieces with one spray, and not worry about missing undersides or what-not due to angles, and the low-to-the-ground boards I'd been using for thspray painting just wouldn't cut it. The reason I'm bothering with the clear coat at all is that I've noticed that the blue paint is prone to chipping. The silver paint might betoo, but at least with the silver, it's still silver underneath. Much harder to see.

In any case, for those of you who intend to make your own sets, i f you use the clear coat, please don't do what I did and do i t in the basement. You want a WELLVENTILATED AREA. Trust me on this.

After viewing the photos, it's kinda hard to see that the pieces have been clearcoated - trust me though, the difference is MUCH more visible in person.


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Image Notes1. I threw the drop cloth over the stuff back there to protect it from overspray.

Step 17:Board Creation, ahoy!Finally, it is time to construct the board! Huzzah!

I epoxied the blue squares onto a 10"x10" sheet o' metal that I'd spray-painted silver, and let that sit for about 8 hours or so. Once it was done, I unwrapped the plexigcover and put that on top, then screwed on the angle brackets.

After that, I put the corner braces on the frame, followed by the flat braces. The results can be seen below.

While the epoxy was drying, I grabbed this really awesome case that my dad gave me (after he removed the lock from the top/front of it) for the project and some highdensity foam. I cut off blocks of foam to pad the sides of the case where the board sits, and cut slits in another piece for the pieces to sit in.


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Image Notes1. SHINY!

Step 18:Final resultLast thing we did was grab some stick-on felt and put that on the bottoms of the pieces so that they can't scratch the plexiglass all to hell. That'd suck.

Here's the end result before the pieces got felted - thanks for tagging along!


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Comments

36 comments Add Comment

--= Excogitate =-- says: Jan 28, 2010. 7:33 AM REPAwesome! I just made an aluminum foundry and now I know what to do with it! Great instructable :)

rogueaviation says: Dec 3, 2009. 7:19 AM REPI love this style of project. Loved the write up!Rock-on cottage industry (style) projects!!!!

Sevion says: Dec 28, 2008. 11:40 PM REPWow, your girlfriend is a pretty lucky woman. :P

qon duixote says: Dec 21, 2008. 11:23 PM REPexcellent project I really liked how clean the final product looked in the case. I'm in need of a chess set while overseas and I can't bring myself to buy aboring old plastic one, this looks l ike a good project. A carpenter's rule of thumb, wood from a lumber yard is almost always shorter than they claim (that'swhat she said). It's a result of the width of the cutting tools, usually it's just as easy as asking for lumber cut to size if you don't have your own equipment, bI recommend bringing your own tape measure to the store for most projects

qon duixote says: Dec 21, 2008. 11:29 PM REPoo s, I uess someone alread answered that uestion

znelson710 says: Dec 21, 2008. 7:13 PM REPThis looks rally cool. I think the peices needed to be filled out more like with nuts all up and down, they look really skinny. this whole thing loks like its part oa contemperary art exhibit. you could have masked off the metal plates and cut the squares out of the tape then painted the metal instead of the squaresbeing a separate material.

imshanedulong says: Aug 25, 2008. 12:02 PM REPCool! I would make one, but I stink at chess (And yet I'm a nerd. Kinda ironic.).

Lt. Duct Tape says: Aug 9, 2008. 2:12 PM REPCould you please add a step on HOW to give it to the girl?

jaredisasushi says: Aug 7, 2008. 7:41 PM REP

This thing is amazing ;D

hihahockey says: Jul 29, 2008. 10:25 PM REPyou know the dark squares and the white squares are in the wrong place

cybergeek says: Jul 29, 2008. 11:18 PM REPNot if you rotate the board 90 degrees they're not ;)
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sassygeckko says: Jul 7, 2008. 3:40 PM REPthat is awesome dude!

cosgrove says: Jun 25, 2008. 2:53 AM REPGreat Instructable, Had me laughing. I'd make my own, but I'd porbably end up forgetting a certain vital part.. 5/5

maclakey says: Jun 25, 2008. 10:36 PM REPLike the Kin ?

maclakey says: Jun 20, 2008. 10:58 PM REPReally very nice! I throughly enjoyed the beer I was drinking, oh, and of course, the well thought out and very humorous dialog throughout your instructablelook forward to building my own!

cybergeek says: Jun 25, 2008. 9:11 PM REPGlad to hear it - send me a link to some pics when it's done! :-D

Koolraap says: Mar 25, 2008. 2:14 AM REPwow, thats SO cool. it's wa rettier than those lass chessboards

cybergeek says: Mar 25, 2008. 8:24 PM REPThanks! I'm thinking about maybe making myself one, but in green instead of blue...not sure if the paint exists, though :- \

Koolraap says: Mar 26, 2008. 12:02 AM REPgreen for a chess board ? wouln't do that tho. you could use yellow / purple :P

SpinWard says: Mar 11, 2008. 9:06 AM REPThis is beautiful. My dad doesn't play chess but he will think this is really cool! My mom work for a HVAC company and I can get them to cut the squares abend some pieces for the edges. Thanks for the great idea!

cybergeek says: Mar 25, 2008. 8:25 PM REPMy pleasure - I'd love to see how it turns out!

earthstation says: Jan 4, 2008. 12:17 PM REPThat is absolutely beautiful. I think I'm going to need to save up for a while to build this.... Just out of curiosity about how much did this cost you?

cybergeek says: Jan 4, 2008. 1:07 PM REPAll in all, probably in the area of $60-75, but I also had a lot of stuff that I didn't need to buy (like the edging, solid metal sheet, etc). Biggest cost, easilywas the spray paint and clear coat. If you can find a less-pricey alternative, you'll be sitting pretty. :D

papalevies says: Feb 19, 2008. 10:46 AM REPSuper cool project and very fine looking result but I wouldn't give it to a girl for Christmas (after all I'd rather keep it for myself ;). I hope sheappreciated it.

edward32214 says: Jan 15, 2008. 7:35 PM REPThis is AWESOME...i want one how much

Bor says: Dec 27, 2007. 6:58 AM REPI love it!

marcward86 says: Dec 26, 2007. 7:29 PM REPi really like the pieces. i was skeptical at first, but they turned out really well.
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bgugi says: Dec 24, 2007. 9:09 PM REPwith your board size complaint, did you not know that almost all modern wood measurements are the pre-shrunk measurements? they cut the wood greenmeasure, then dry, causing shrinkage. that's why your 12x12 was not 12x12.

cybergeek says: Dec 24, 2007. 10:24 PM REPAha! Thanks for the information - any idea *why* they do it like that? Seems to me like it'd be more helpful to the consumers (i.e. the people who payever one else to do all this) if the measurements were of the "current" sizes, instead of the "when it was fresh" sizes...

chew socks says: Dec 24, 2007. 8:02 PM REPSWEET!!! I am so onna make one of these. That's awesome! Finish it soon, I need to know the rest.

PKM says: Dec 24, 2007. 4:30 PM REPWell documented and photographed, an original idea, beautiful design, your writing is amusing and the phrase "I math goodly" made me laugh like an idiotdon't care if it's not finished yet, you get a + Looking forward to the conclusion!

mrmath says: Dec 24, 2007. 11:12 AM REPIs this done? You seem to have left off in mid build. How did you do the queen? How did you do the board?

cybergeek says: Dec 24, 2007. 1:06 PM REPNot finished et. I finished that last ste at like 5am and decided slee would be ood. More is soon to come! :D

T3h_Muffinator says: Dec 24, 2007. 12:18 PM REPDude! That's awesome! I wanna make a giant version of this with welded pieces, that should be sick!

GorillazMiko says: Dec 24, 2007. 11:43 AM REPdang, thats freaking COOL!

Weissensteinburg says: Dec 24, 2007. 9:45 AM REPNow that's cool!
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