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Eric said:
Still reading my sci-fi, but I've done a brief diversion into book related model making that I thought could go on this thread.
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Since I mentioned it over here, I thought I'd post a few pics of the repair details on a hole punched copy of Chapter Approved. So it arrived in the red folder, the front and back cover had previously been glued to the folder with dabs of glue in the corners. That proved difficult to remove cleanly so I ended up mostly leaving it in place.

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The covers were of course cut down somewhat in order to detach them from the original spine, the original spine was long gone. The first few pages in the binder were also cut narrower than the rest - which looked like they had simply detached originally from the spine glue.

I ws never going to be able to do anything about the punched holes, but I thought I could probably turn this back into a book again...

I should have done some WIP shots, but in essence for the bulk of the pages I clamped them along with some wax paper between two blocks of wood so they were tightly bound and the original spine edge was exposed (along with the wax paper to stop the glue sticking to the wood). I used an archival PVC (supposed to be fully neutral and has a longer flexible lifespan) glue along the edge, re-enforcing it with a bit of gauze. Once dry I trimmed off any excess glue.

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With the pages and covers that were too narrow I glued on some washi kozo tissue paper along the edges overlapping the page by about 3/16". This was alway going to be annoying as this would be a visible repair, but there wasn't much that could otherwise be done. The tissue is very thin, but strong so doesn't really impact the thickness. I trimmed the excess tissue off the top and bottom of each of these extended pages.

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I then bound my extended pages and the front and back cover onto the spine of all the other pages. At this point I had a complete book, but missing the spine.

Fortunately I have a copy of Chaper Approved in better condition so I scanned the back, spine and front of that and stitched those together filling in the missing bits in my photo editing software. Then printed the resulting wrap out. Colour was never going to quite match. I trimmed the printout down and thought I'd got it right, but evidently mucked up a bit and my final result wasn't quite spot on with alignment on the actual spine itself. Still I left it for now, I might replace it one day if I can bothered. Still at a casual glance it passes quite well.

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Much like rescuing an old miniature from ebay it's quite nice restoring an old book back to something like its original state.
 
Sometimes I've really thought about cutting up some old stuff and using the binder holes.. easier to flip through, storage can be easier too.. but I'm reluctant.. that said my AHQ set is kinda all loose and I can't remember if its already hole punched.. Need to check but I'm still a bit annoyed that I can't find one of my Heroquest binders right now (I got all the original HQ add-ons from when they were new, but I have two binders which, the first one is all the original heroquest missions and add-ons, blown up to A4 size cause that's just easier at times ^_^, and the second one has the USA missions, White Dwarf and other publican missions)
 
Eric said:
I should have done some WIP shots, but in essence for the bulk of the pages I clamped them along with some wax paper between two blocks of wood so they were tightly bound and the original spine edge was exposed (along with the wax paper to stop the glue sticking to the wood). I used an archival PVC (supposed to be fully neutral and has a longer flexible lifespan) glue along the edge, re-enforcing it with a bit of gauze. Once dry I trimmed off any excess glue.
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Interesting!

My copy of Waaargh! The Orks didn't come with any binding at all. Caught me by surprise when I broke the shrink wrap & the pages tried to spill everywhere. It came with a hardcover & all the pages came punched. I've always wondered what the logic of that move was. If you put the pages in a binder or use treasury tags, what's the cover for? Odd for a book that is 100% lore & not going to be used as reference on the tabletop.

Never occurred to me to try binding it myself.
 
Just started Downbelow Station a couple of days ago. Feels very, very Oldhammer. In the early 80s I was mostly reading things like Lloyd Alexander and Susan Cooper. I'm wondering if I've just met the jokaero.

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And holy crud, seems like she was even born in my fair town. Who knew? (Okay, probably a lot of people. We tend to talk about that stuff. I just missed it.) Anyway . . . long overdue! Quite liking it so far. Her prose is definitely distinctive.
 
i'm fond of a bit of c.j. cherryh. i haven't encountered a copy of downbelow station in the wild, but have read at least a couple of the sequels: 40,000 in gehenna and cyteen.
 
^So far I'm pretty impressed. The way she presents the internal dialogues of a wide variety of different people, without clearly taking a side as to who is protagonist or antagonist is pretty fresh. Especially in a book forty years old. The flow of refugees and logistics in war is also something a bit unusual in Sci-Fi, even now. Cherryh would have had reason to think on it considerably, thanks both to the early history of this part of New France, and to what would have then been the quite recent history of the United States. Doubtless both supplied inspiration. (Which, to be fair, they do to me as well in my own nascent writings.)
 
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This week I ave been mostly readin...

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White Dwarf 110.

I don't have many issues from between 105 and 112 because I've owned the 40k Compendium since it first came out and much of the material from these issues is reprinted there. There are a few interesting bits and pieces I did want from this issue though, especially the original infantry rules from Adeptus Titanicus (entitled Space Marine!) which subsequently became their own ruleset (and the first GW boxed game I ever bought).

These predate the plastic 6mm marine infantry and long predate the introduction of the 6mm Imperial Guard miniatures so you are provided with counters for the relevant units that you can cut out or photocopy. The main reason I wanted this was because it used the early unit sizes, which are much less alienating than the later published lists, especially for the Imperial Guard which iirc had something like 30 sodding infantry stands in a single tactical company*

*It doesn't get much better for owners of 40k Imperial Guard armies who are foisted with the need for a minimum of 4 infantry squads plus a command squad.
 
Brother Meredith said:
Got a copy of this issue (plus a few others) delivered over the weekend. I think I may be busy for a while…
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They look like they've got the name scribbled on the cover from where someone had reserved their copy via their friendly local newsagent.

I can still remember the excitement of popping over the road to Bromfield Post Office after school and getting my new copy of White Dwarf and 2000AD (last Thursday of the month?).
 
This is a book I have never been able to find for a decent price, bu I consider one of my all time favourites, and (if my memory serves me properly) a tremendously influential book.

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If anyone ever sees a copy, grab it for me? I'd be eternally grateful.
 
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