If you saw the title of this post and immediately heard Barbra Streisand’s bit-by-bits and piece-by-pieces, you should know that’s also what I thought of while gently assembling the potato truck earlier to verify everything fit.*
The alignment is imperfect since it was photographed sans chassis (and glue), but I’d say it looks pretty nice — nicer than it’ll be once I’m done with it. There’s a problem that only a handful of people on the face of the earth would notice or be perturbed by, and sadly I’m one of them: the 3D model lacks a stakebed.** If you have no idea what that means, let’s mosey down memory lane while carefully sidestepping errant potatoes:
That’s probably the last you’ll see of the truck until it’s finished, but UPS expects to deliver my custom figures any day now. I’ll share a photo if they turned out well and hang my head in shame (to whatever extent the Botox allows) if they didn’t.
Tune in tomorrow for something less frivolous and please forgive any glaring typos. This is the third night in a row I’m proofreading with a brain already half-asleep and tomorrow I’ll wake up, take a look at this and find a half-dozen things to correct.
* No offense to Mandy Patinkin, who did a fine job with it in Sunday in the Park with George. But as his Avigdor learned in Yentl, it’s hard to top Streisand.
** I won’t bore anyone with my modification plans just yet, but I’m aiming for a stakebed. The standard bed was printed as a backup.