OfficerLovejoy
Full House
After focusing all my energy and money in finishing my flamingo set, I'm now ready to take on a new project.
At the start of the year, I managed to snag a rack of Aztar $25s on the classifieds and was immediately mesmerized by the shaped and textured inlays.
I also managed to track down 120 of the $5s but those just didn't do it for me. RHC, giant inlays... not a good match, despite beeing from the same casino.
After checking prices and availability of shaped inlay THC $5s, I put the Aztar way way back in the closet and buried my plans to actually build a set around them.
A few months went by but I couldn't quite forget those day green devils calling to me from their dark warneke prison.
So I reached out to my trusted reshipper @arch3r and asked him if there was anything he could do for me concerning $5s to get the set off the ground. And boy did he come through:
Pure leaded radioactive beauty.
So I was finally getting somewhere and actually finishing the set on my humble budget seemed more doable all of a sudden.
Getting $1s proved to be more of a challenge than I'd hoped, so I just decided on using the 120 old school spotted flamingos that I already own for my flamingo set. Those will be used in both sets until I manage to find more of them, preferably at <$5 / chip (already reached out to @Windwalker but no luck so far) or a worthy replacement.
I had a rack of arc yellow starbursts at @LeGold all ready to be milled and stopped the murder just in time for them to be shipped as they were from norway to germany to serve as my non denom fracs.
They do clean up nicely by the way:
So this is where I'm at now:
Next up:
Choosing a $100.
At the start of the year, I managed to snag a rack of Aztar $25s on the classifieds and was immediately mesmerized by the shaped and textured inlays.
I also managed to track down 120 of the $5s but those just didn't do it for me. RHC, giant inlays... not a good match, despite beeing from the same casino.
After checking prices and availability of shaped inlay THC $5s, I put the Aztar way way back in the closet and buried my plans to actually build a set around them.
A few months went by but I couldn't quite forget those day green devils calling to me from their dark warneke prison.
So I reached out to my trusted reshipper @arch3r and asked him if there was anything he could do for me concerning $5s to get the set off the ground. And boy did he come through:
Pure leaded radioactive beauty.
So I was finally getting somewhere and actually finishing the set on my humble budget seemed more doable all of a sudden.
Getting $1s proved to be more of a challenge than I'd hoped, so I just decided on using the 120 old school spotted flamingos that I already own for my flamingo set. Those will be used in both sets until I manage to find more of them, preferably at <$5 / chip (already reached out to @Windwalker but no luck so far) or a worthy replacement.
I had a rack of arc yellow starbursts at @LeGold all ready to be milled and stopped the murder just in time for them to be shipped as they were from norway to germany to serve as my non denom fracs.
They do clean up nicely by the way:
So this is where I'm at now:
Next up:
Choosing a $100.
