Since the morning was open and it wasnt too too hot outside yet I decided it was a good time to break down the balloon system and give it a good cleaning. Plus the bolster was looking a little faded. So out came the basket, out came the tanks, out came the burner and the uprights too.
Out the floor pad and all the extras stuff too. Taking the hose and washing all the dirt and twigs out of the edges behind the bottom kick leather is hard. It loves to get behind it and hide. Lost of dirt. That has to be flushed throught the two 1 inch holes in the bottom and the remainder wiped up with a cloth. All the metal and stuff inside gets wiped but the wicket does not. The wicker needs the water.
Once that was done and the leather was wiped done it was time to pull out the Wheelers bees wax leather conditioner. All the way from Great Britain. I lay it on thick and then buff it in. Leaving it sit for a bit before buffing it up. Such a wonderful smell. The bottom kick leather and step holes get McGuires leather conditioner. Its a stiffer leather.
I take a few shots for the hell of it. Its looking very nice now. And there are about four possibles from 7 weekends to fly before Fiesta starts again. It creeps up on you and the next thing you know you are waking up at 4am to go fly off a bit of green grass to fight for a place in the sky and maybe in the river before hunting a place to land down. Loads of fun!
Tank covers are wiped down. They get so much rubbing and banging around against the wicker inside. Even the wicker color has rubbed into them. They are no way dirty enough to go in the washer.
Looking through one foot step to the other foot step. I couldn't line it up with my phone camera but I will later. Makes a nice wallpaper for the computer.
Shiney and clean solid wood floor. See the two weep holes. They come on handy if we go too deep during a splash and dash. Lets all that water stream back out. Normally covered in a black inch of high density foam in its own fabric coverlet. Thats drying in the trailer right now.
So its all in pieces. I have the burners in the house...which I will move to the office and they will get stood up on their poles so I can clean the coils and covers and replace the fuel knobs that were damaged. I have to go buy a lock ring removal tool to take the rings off to get the knobs off.
So its not completely cleaned up but it will be. Ready for another ten day run of the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta. Weeeee.....
Fallout 4. A DLC is due to download next week. How much of it will be worth bothering with I dont know. I have been going back to all my settlements and updating the walls and adding things here and there. Lots of silliness in there still. Lots of work getting things to line up. I am looking at having to deconstruct the Slog totally to get the housing area to line up right. I am not looking forward to it.
Here are a few shots.
Red Rocket Armory and home. I modified it and then put it back to this as it just didn't work. Lots of wasted time there. I am now picking up armor that is just left on the ground now. Just have to buy the damn frames.
Jamaica... Updated to make the people happy and also cover over my generator and water processing. Nice bar.
Abernathys... It took some heavy thought on how to build a flooring half way up the walls so that it ligned up with the walls as well as the exisiting housing of the tower. Did it and now all the farming is done from clean planter boxes instead of the funky ground.
Greentop Nursery. It took a lot of planning and testing to get this place walled and then going back and updating those walls and the gate area is hard to work with as it slips over the build area. Its nice an intimidating.
Okay.. much to do... so hopefully you liked this and if you want to see more Fallout shots of different places and how I built them up .. drop and email as usual.
