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Might have K9 also pick up some new gloves for Marvin. That was a lot of sanding!
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Might have K9 also pick up some new gloves for Marvin. That was a lot of sanding!
Funkworks
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Marvin:
"I have spread a paste of magnesium carbonate, limeston and talc (Elmer's interior wood filler) on the surface of the balsa nose cone and glued the motor mount shroud around the motor mount section of the fuselage! After a little more sanding it will be time to apply aerosol!"
"I have spread a paste of magnesium carbonate, limeston and talc (Elmer's interior wood filler) on the surface of the balsa nose cone and glued the motor mount shroud around the motor mount section of the fuselage! After a little more sanding it will be time to apply aerosol!"
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Bugs, knowing Marvin is too caught up in his build to care:
Hey Doc! Me and my jail buddy here are out for quick a jog outdoors. In the off chance you decide to go back to Euyth in the meantime ... ehhhhhh ... give us a shout ok?
Road Runner, whispering not to break Marvin's trance:
<meep meep!>
Marvin:
Wait a minute … what is that unusually sudden atmospheric disturbance I hear …
Hey Doc! Me and my jail buddy here are out for quick a jog outdoors. In the off chance you decide to go back to Euyth in the meantime ... ehhhhhh ... give us a shout ok?
Road Runner, whispering not to break Marvin's trance:
<meep meep!>
Marvin:
Wait a minute … what is that unusually sudden atmospheric disturbance I hear …
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Marvin:
K9! It is you! And you have located and retrieved a tank of protective dye in a liquid form that can be propelled!
K9:
Duuhhh … Yup!
Marvin:
What a lovely vegetative color that is! Let us now begin the application process, shall we?
K9:
Uuhhh…
K9! It is you! And you have located and retrieved a tank of protective dye in a liquid form that can be propelled!
K9:
Duuhhh … Yup!
Marvin:
What a lovely vegetative color that is! Let us now begin the application process, shall we?
K9:
Uuhhh…
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Tweety, out in the great Martian outdoors:
Oooooo! Dee aiw is so tin out heew!
Bugs:
Ok, we made it out of that clunky workshop ... Now here’s the plan … Tweety, you keep helping that little twerp build his contraption and keep his mind off of us. Roady, you start that way and … <inaudible> … and I’ll start this way and … <inaudible> … and we’ll meet in the middle in a Mars week’s time.
Road Runner: MEEP! MEEP!
Tweety: Vewy Kwever! I wike it a wot!
Sinister voice from above:
Yessss … “Vewy kwever!” Very clever indeed …"
Wile E. Coyote, Genius: Ho! Ho! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ho! Hooo … Sssssluurrpp!!
Marvin:
After K9 found the correct color, I applied some primer undercoat onto the parts. By applying a few coatings before assembly, the final coating application process takes less time!
Marvin:
Now let’s begin the assembly!
Oooooo! Dee aiw is so tin out heew!
Bugs:
Ok, we made it out of that clunky workshop ... Now here’s the plan … Tweety, you keep helping that little twerp build his contraption and keep his mind off of us. Roady, you start that way and … <inaudible> … and I’ll start this way and … <inaudible> … and we’ll meet in the middle in a Mars week’s time.
Road Runner: MEEP! MEEP!
Tweety: Vewy Kwever! I wike it a wot!
Sinister voice from above:
Yessss … “Vewy kwever!” Very clever indeed …"
Wile E. Coyote, Genius: Ho! Ho! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ho! Hooo … Sssssluurrpp!!
Marvin:
After K9 found the correct color, I applied some primer undercoat onto the parts. By applying a few coatings before assembly, the final coating application process takes less time!
Marvin:
Now let’s begin the assembly!
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Marvin:
"I have permanently attached the four boosters! Those oblique nose cones up there are so delightful!"
Meanwhile, speeding away from Marvin's workshop under the Martian sun:
Bugs:
“YIKES! I’ve only been running this lousy wasteland for a jiffy and look who’s on my tail!
Bugs:
"I’m not sure I can outrun him very long! … The Bird better be doing ok!”
Far away in the opposite direction, speeding as never before, the Bird:
“MEEP! MEEP!”
"I have permanently attached the four boosters! Those oblique nose cones up there are so delightful!"
Meanwhile, speeding away from Marvin's workshop under the Martian sun:
Bugs:
“YIKES! I’ve only been running this lousy wasteland for a jiffy and look who’s on my tail!
Bugs:
"I’m not sure I can outrun him very long! … The Bird better be doing ok!”
Far away in the opposite direction, speeding as never before, the Bird:
“MEEP! MEEP!”
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Porky Pig:
Ela-elala-ela ela-Look your Heroship Sir! According to the super video-detecto set, a bird and a rabbit have traced the word “HELP!” on the Martian sand!
Duck Dodgers:
Hmmm … THIS, eager young space cadet, means they need some help down on Mars!
Porky:
Oh … um … Are you sure? Oh, Caped Wonder Sir?
Duck Dodgers:
Innnn-DUBITABLY! THIS is a job for…
DUCK DODGERS in the TWENTY FOURTH and a HALF … CENNN-TURYYY!!!
Meanwhile in Marvin’s workshop -
Marvin:
I have sanded off some of the primary coating where a fin should be bonded to the fuselage and I have bonded a fin to the fuselage, and I must now make sure that the fin does not tip over, while the epoxy dries or else I would have to start over if I want the rocket to fly straight which indeed I do!
Ela-elala-ela ela-Look your Heroship Sir! According to the super video-detecto set, a bird and a rabbit have traced the word “HELP!” on the Martian sand!
Duck Dodgers:
Hmmm … THIS, eager young space cadet, means they need some help down on Mars!
Porky:
Oh … um … Are you sure? Oh, Caped Wonder Sir?
Duck Dodgers:
Innnn-DUBITABLY! THIS is a job for…
DUCK DODGERS in the TWENTY FOURTH and a HALF … CENNN-TURYYY!!!
Meanwhile in Marvin’s workshop -
Marvin:
I have sanded off some of the primary coating where a fin should be bonded to the fuselage and I have bonded a fin to the fuselage, and I must now make sure that the fin does not tip over, while the epoxy dries or else I would have to start over if I want the rocket to fly straight which indeed I do!
Funkworks
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Marvin:
I have bonded the 4 main fins and it is now time to spread a fillet on each one of the 8 resulting edges. Isn’t this one lovely!
On the Martian sands -
Bugs, running and exhausted:
DON’T they have any RABBIT HOLES in this BARREN DUST BOWL!
Wile E. Coyote, Genius:
I have you now! RABBIT!
>>> SPLAT <<<
...
I have bonded the 4 main fins and it is now time to spread a fillet on each one of the 8 resulting edges. Isn’t this one lovely!
On the Martian sands -
Bugs, running and exhausted:
DON’T they have any RABBIT HOLES in this BARREN DUST BOWL!
Wile E. Coyote, Genius:
I have you now! RABBIT!
>>> SPLAT <<<
...
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Bugs:
Well wadaya know …
Hailing a cab ain’t easy around here but I gotta say, that is some good soyvice!
Nyeh-heheheheh!
Porky, from inside the landed rocket:
The Black Bran- Eh the B-B eh the B-B-B eh the Black Duck 5000 has landed!
Oh, Your Starshipness Sir.
Duck Dodgers:
Well it’s about time! Now roll out the red carpet, we have no time to lose!
A feathered friend is in DANGER!
The feathered friend, after writing “HELP!” on the surface of Mars, going back:
MEEP! MEEP!
At the shop:
“The main fins are attached! The time has now come to attach the small tail fins!”
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Poor Wiley E. Coyote, after all these years still trying to find that sweet spot between noting that a pattern has developed, and hope which springs eternal ...
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Marvin in his workshop:
“I have bonded the 12 fins. For the four small base fins, I have used aliphatic resin for both the roots and the filet, whereas for the large tail fins on the boosters, I have used cyanoacrylate at the roots, and aliphatic resin again for the fillets. I oh so enjoy this view of the nozzles!”
Outdoors:
Bugs:
Miehhhh … Well doc, we’re all here so I guess it’s time to go home now!
Duck Dodgers:
Nonsense! A space traveler like me does not travel across space merely to carry freight!
Bugs:
Freight!?! Me?!?
Duck Dodgers:
I shall eliminate the cause of UFO abductions once and for all!
Tweety:
Ooooo! … I’ve neveh seen a spaced-out pwesomptuous loon befowe! Go get ‘em boy!
“I have bonded the 12 fins. For the four small base fins, I have used aliphatic resin for both the roots and the filet, whereas for the large tail fins on the boosters, I have used cyanoacrylate at the roots, and aliphatic resin again for the fillets. I oh so enjoy this view of the nozzles!”
Outdoors:
Bugs:
Miehhhh … Well doc, we’re all here so I guess it’s time to go home now!
Duck Dodgers:
Nonsense! A space traveler like me does not travel across space merely to carry freight!
Bugs:
Freight!?! Me?!?
Duck Dodgers:
I shall eliminate the cause of UFO abductions once and for all!
Tweety:
Ooooo! … I’ve neveh seen a spaced-out pwesomptuous loon befowe! Go get ‘em boy!
What a complex build
Lovin the pics - very funny and entertaining!
Thunderbudgie. Gotta be a good name for a rocket!Thunderpeacock
Thunderowl
Thunderdove
Thundertoucan
That's why.
Funkworks
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Wile E. Coyote, Genius, scheming with scrap in Marvin’s backyard:
“So they want to play rough do they …”
“So they want to go “hi tech” do they …”
Wile E. Coyote, Genius:
MUA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HAAAAA!!
Omega Supreme:
OMEGA SEE SIGNAL. OMEGA FLY YOU OFF MARS. YOU ARE SAFE.
Bugs: Fine by me!
Road Runner: MEEP MEEP!
Tweety: Okey Dokey!
Omega Supreme: NOT THE CAT
Azreal: Myurp?!?
Marvin:
The missile is fully assembled! I shall now apply more coats of prime-
Duck Dodgers:
HOLD it right there BUSTER! THIS is a RAID!
Marvin’s A-1 disintegrating pistol:
KA-DJZWERT!
Porky, looking down on a pile of atomized feather dust:
Oh D-D- oh D- Oh De- Ohh … not again.
Marvin:
As I was saying, it is now time to apply more coats of primer and that will be followed by some of K9’s dye product reminiscent of earthly chlorophyll.
Porky’s Acme integrating pistol:
DJOYOYOyoyoyoyoing!
Duck Dodgers:
AHAA!! Look Bub! I’ll go easy on you this time, but if I ever catch you again trespassing onto Martian property, you’re gonna get it and I’m not kidding!
Porky:
Yes Oh Brave Sir Knight of the Round Orbit Sir.
“So they want to play rough do they …”
“So they want to go “hi tech” do they …”
Wile E. Coyote, Genius:
MUA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HAAAAA!!
Omega Supreme:
OMEGA SEE SIGNAL. OMEGA FLY YOU OFF MARS. YOU ARE SAFE.
Bugs: Fine by me!
Road Runner: MEEP MEEP!
Tweety: Okey Dokey!
Omega Supreme: NOT THE CAT
Azreal: Myurp?!?
Marvin:
The missile is fully assembled! I shall now apply more coats of prime-
Duck Dodgers:
HOLD it right there BUSTER! THIS is a RAID!
Marvin’s A-1 disintegrating pistol:
KA-DJZWERT!
Porky, looking down on a pile of atomized feather dust:
Oh D-D- oh D- Oh De- Ohh … not again.
Marvin:
As I was saying, it is now time to apply more coats of primer and that will be followed by some of K9’s dye product reminiscent of earthly chlorophyll.
Porky’s Acme integrating pistol:
DJOYOYOyoyoyoyoing!
Duck Dodgers:
AHAA!! Look Bub! I’ll go easy on you this time, but if I ever catch you again trespassing onto Martian property, you’re gonna get it and I’m not kidding!
Porky:
Yes Oh Brave Sir Knight of the Round Orbit Sir.
