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24-2-2024 11:45:00  #41


Re: Olympia SF From 1975 Yugoslavia...

Good job Mike !

If you want to lighten up the look a bit, you might consider painting the space-bar and the 2 shift key-top an ivory colour. 

Or maybe start with the space-bar, first...

That will bring the ivory colour of the carriage components forward.

 

24-2-2024 12:44:30  #42


Re: Olympia SF From 1975 Yugoslavia...

mikeytap wrote:

. . . but a pain in the a@# to mask off. Pete has the right idea to accent paint the tops only.

I chose to remove the logo badges with a razor blade to the underside, and reattached with small blobs of epoxy.

Good idea.
 


- Be kind 
 

25-2-2024 13:42:30  #43


Re: Olympia SF From 1975 Yugoslavia...

This is the photo that got me to thinking about only adding a splash of colour to the ribbon covers on the Travellers.

Singer/song-writer Neil Diamond had a hit out some decades ago..."Forever In Blue Jeans".

It looks like someone did a denim fabric wrap on the Traveller.
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25-2-2024 15:01:24  #44


Re: Olympia SF From 1975 Yugoslavia...

Pete E. wrote:

This is the photo that got me to thinking about only adding a splash of colour to the ribbon covers on the Travellers.

Singer/song-writer Neil Diamond had a hit out some decades ago..."Forever In Blue Jeans".

It looks like someone did a denim fabric wrap on the Traveller.
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They can put denim on just about anything. I have a Fender Princeton amp like this one clad in denim. Fans of the show Portlandia know how they dressed up everyday items: "put a bird on it!"



 


- Be kind 
 

25-2-2024 20:59:51  #45


Re: Olympia SF From 1975 Yugoslavia...

Pete E. wrote:

Hi George,

Here is a paint-job that I am probably not brave enough to pull off...
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Might as well go complete Piet Mondrian;

 

26-2-2024 08:03:24  #46


Re: Olympia SF From 1975 Yugoslavia...

Gabby,

I keep waiting for someone to do a Trompe-l'œil treatment on one of those Olivetti-Underwood 21s where the inner workings of a typewriter are shown in 3D perspective to open up to the guts of a modern PC.

I have one of those typewriters...but love mine as-is...since it looks so Swedish.
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26-2-2024 08:08:58  #47


Re: Olympia SF From 1975 Yugoslavia...

Mike,

I have an old pair of these in a nice rustic "camel" colour hanging somewhere in the back of my closet.

Maybe I have room for one more Traveller in my life...???...
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26-2-2024 12:24:05  #48


Re: Olympia SF From 1975 Yugoslavia...

Pete E. wrote:

Mike,

I have an old pair of these in a nice rustic "camel" colour hanging somewhere in the back of my closet.

Maybe I have room for one more Traveller in my life...???...
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Ok, just one more, then we're closing the window on those.


- Be kind 
 

27-2-2024 11:51:27  #49


Re: Olympia SF From 1975 Yugoslavia...

Pete E. wrote:

This is the photo that got me to thinking about only adding a splash of colour to the ribbon covers on the Travellers.

Singer/song-writer Neil Diamond had a hit out some decades ago..."Forever In Blue Jeans".

It looks like someone did a denim fabric wrap on the Traveller.
.

I love the jean style !

 

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