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[san_valentine]

My desk just got a little nerdier

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[magda_vogelsang]

If you ever see a Liberator X-mas ornament, let me know. (Or a model of a scale that would look reasonable perched on a branch. How big is the Corgi one?) I've been collecting spaceship ornaments for years (mostly the Hallmark Star Trek and Star Wars ones) and recently added to the collection ornament versions of Serenity, Inara's shuttle, and a Reaver ship.

I'm contemplating getting a black X-mas tree with white lights, and decorating it only in spaceships, with balls painted to look like planets.

[san_valentine]

The Corgi Liberator is 3" long.

I was considering adding mine to my Xmas tree, following the inspiration of Vilakins, who has spaceships and planet baubles on hers. The best pics are on her lj entry of 16th Dec 2006. Your idea's even more geeky though.

[vilakins]

Hee, she beat me to it, but I started with the Liberator and glass balls that look a little like gas giants, and I now have Red Dwarf and Babylon 5 ships too. They're all about the same size, 3 - 6 inches, and the 'planets' are bigger. Balls that really look like planets would be so cool. The wooden ones would be easier to paint.

I have pics here and here.

[vilakins]

I have an original Corgi Liberator, bought with the B7 Marvel mags! One of its prongs is a bit fragile so it's safe under a clear dome from one of the DVD sets while the one that came with that is displayed with my B7 pipecleaner crew.

[san_valentine]

How did you get the dome open ? did you cut it with a craft knife ?

I had a terrible time getting the slipcover and dome free from the DVDs. The slipcover got a bit battered around the edges of the hole.

[vilakins]

[looks at it] I cut it round the edge of the 'floor' to extract the ship. The dome's intact though, so I don't think I had any trouble removing it; the slip cover's fine too.