Kattenvriendin from The Netherlands

[Kattenvriendin]

Hahahaha!! Love ya sis *hug* And thanks Sure practice again, it will be fun to race with ya!

 

[Kattenvriendin]

Ohhh.. was just practicing for fun, and got a 20.85 hehe
Been a while since I have seen THAT now!!

scramble: B2 R2 B2 D' B2 R2 U2 R2 U' L F2 D2 L2 B' D' U L' B2 F U

 

[Lchu613]

Nice!
I recently got my first sub-17 ao5, but I'm too lazy to post it here

 

[Kattenvriendin]

LOL congrats!

My averages currently are stuck around 35ish.. but then I do have to admit I have been otherwise engaged as well (cube wise + life wise).

 

[Kattenvriendin]

Ahhh she's back(ish). In case you are wondering where I have been: I went to see Martywolfman (Twistypuzzles forum) this past weekend, since we're an item That is what has been going on and slooooowwwly things are calming down again and settling into some sort of routine hehe. He'll be at the Dutch Open this year.


Anyway something totally unrelated to speedcubing.. I am going to build myself two 4x4 evil twins (for both myself and him) and in order to do that I needed to start off by building myself a fused 3x3 so I did that to see how that would go. Got 6 cubes on the way now as well.

Well.. it went very well in fact!

I followed the instructions here and will follow the 4x4 on that channel as well.

I did change the glue around to superglue and then glued them on one at a time very carefully. At the very end I had to use a toothpick to get the glue between those remaining centers, but things turned out very well. And it turns beautifully! I am quite proud of myself for managing this.

I didn't want to post it at first, but Martywolfman said I should. "Just because it is simple doesn't mean you shouldn't post it, it is your first mod!" He's right *giggle*


Here are a few pictures (click for large size):



Hope you like it

 

[MarcelP]

Hey Kat, congrats on your 'item' treasure this special time you both go through now.. And very nice cube Looks fun to solve that.

 

[Kattenvriendin]

Thanks!! Yeah we're having loads of fun alright heh.. currently also looking into making a 3x3 plus cube as well from a mercury and a 3x3 wind. Wait and see on that as well

The cube is definitely fun to solve. You can mimic it if you have a cubetwist bandaged package cube (the one with the holes and separate tiles). Though I must say this two of them together dealie is making your view become more skewed than when you are solving just the one bandaged one. LOL

 

[Lchu613]

Congrats!
Also what 3x3's did you use?

 

[Kattenvriendin]

Those two were these: http://zcube.cn/Standard/3x3x3/ShengShou_3x3_2.html?sort=p.price&order=ASC

 

[Lchu613]

Huh, that's interesting to see since I have a ShengShou 3x3 that's neither that nor the wind, it's pretty nice and I call it the SS 3x3 v1, but evidently they have this too....

EDIT: they call that one the "slideway" SS, which refers to the tracks. I guess they decided to stick with the tracks.
Does yours reverse cut at all?

 

[Kattenvriendin]

I doubt it does much. It is now no longer a cube after all

 

[Lchu613]

Good point XD

 

[Kattenvriendin]

Same cubes used, now an Evil Twins has made its appearance!

I ended up following a different tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_ki9XR7ttI

Marking where the extensions need to go.

Putting them all in their spot to make sure I have them all before taking off their stalks.

Just four more pieces left to glue in.

The finished Evil Twins, 75mm 241g.

Makes for some cool movement alright!