On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 1:51 AM, REP<[email protected]> wrote: > Noel - As Mike says, I originally designed the Australia Post mailbox > for part of what turned out to be a less than well patronised model > challenge. Members of this list (Mike?) were challenged to produce a > model of a local mail box - after all, they are different from country > to country, and a collection of a dozen or so different mail boxes > seemed perfectly achievable. The lead time on the challenge was long > enough that even I was able to pull a model together. But I seem to > recall that in the end there were only two models made - mine and a US > post pox. The pix Mike posted were of a second model I made for > MicroCon IV as my contribution. Mike and I did a phone hookup for half > an hour or so and chatted to local members, and Mike also set up a web > cam so we could see what was happening. Video conference it wasn't, but > it did help given a sense of 'being there'. > > But back to the post box. If you'd like a copy, Noel, you're welcome to > it. Let me know and I'll send you one. No instructions, but you should > be able to work it out. It has an operating tilt mechanism for posting > letters and prototypical 'grass' growing out of the concrete. I think > in the one I sent to Mike I included a letter to him - in an envelope he > could open - and a letter addressed to me with a 'bill past due -pay > now' stamp on it. > > One day I'll rework the design to eliminate some of the rather heavy > fold lines, and I'll write up some instructions. > > Bob Pounds > Canberra.
Bob, Please do! This is a slick little model, and I'd like to be able to build one of my own to sit alongside yours. :-) -- Mike Hungerford http://users.sdccu.net/chthulhu2/models.html A heinous crime, a show of force, (A murder would be nice, of course ...) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Papermodels II" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Papermodels?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
