World Championships 2013 - Las Vegas

Rnewms said:
I was stopped by airport security and acclaimed as the Rubik's Cube Champion by a few officers and surrounding persons when my bag was searched. Oh how wrong that will be in a few days.
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These things must be hilarious for all the major airports around the world... just wait until Sunday/Monday when people start to fly out.
 
Yay for free airport wifi (not as common in this part of the world as you may think). Got almost no sleep last night. Fingers crossed I can sleep on the long plane ride over. I'll be in Vegas tomorrow morning! (I'ma be tired and grumpy though, don't get on my bad side :p ).
 
It appears that, assuming paint dries and I don't have any major disasters, I'll have two f/s ShuanReng's and two MoYu HuanYing 57mm cubes as prizes. These are painted and will have logos for the WCA 2013 championship.

Right now I've got the paint down and sanded, ready to accept decals and then a clear coat. From then, I'll polish the internals, adjust spring tension and lubricate.

But now is the time to decide on decals. I basically have to put these on in the next 6 hours. Here are some pictures of a mock-up of the f/s decals on a painted and sanded cube. The MoYu decals will be similar but with their product names in Chinese and English as appropriate. I.e. "MoYu HuanYing 魔域 幻影" instead of "f/s Shuang Ren 方是 霜刃". Uh, since this is just a mock-up, there's a 50% chance I'm showing a MoYu cube with f/s decals:

http://brannenworks.com/Gravity/FSCube.jpg
http://brannenworks.com/Gravity/FSLogo.jpg

Anyway, if you've got suggestions to improve the decal designs (that isn't going to take me more than an hour or two to design), please send them *now* as I'm running out of time.

Note: The decals will be protected by the final clear coat. I'm using a clear that's designed for plastic. I haven't tried it on these decals so there's the possibility of a complete disaster. But if it works, these will be nice cubes.

By the way, is the "consolation round" still on? Giving these out as prizes might increase the entertainment.
 
Yay flight delayed an hour due to an "air conditioning" issue. I don't know what's going to happen if I'm not in time to my connecting flight...
 
Decals are on, next step is to see if the clear coat is compatible. I'd have tested this on a piece of plastic but I'm sort of rushed. Here's the 4 cubes:
http://brannenworks.com/Gravity/NC4.JPG
and a close up of a decal:
http://brannenworks.com/Gravity/NC1.JPG

Clear paint seems to be compatible with the decals. These are going to be beautiful cubes. The white nose-cone shaped things are chunks of clay I've inserted so as to reduce the amount of clear paint I have to sand out of the mechanism.

This is the MoYu white side:
http://brannenworks.com/Gravity/PaintedMoYu.JPG
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And these should be dry by the time competition starts, maybe dry enough for me to polish the internals...

Argghh!! Green side paint buckled. I'll have to strip that side and repaint it. But should still get them done in time...
Here's what a MoYu looks like with slightly buckled green paint. But since the competition ends on Sunday, I'll easily have these in perfect condition by then:
http://brannenworks.com/Gravity/BadGreen.jpg
 
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Finally settled in at LAX and waiting for my connecting flight, which had to be rescheduled >_> . Anyone else hanging about at LAX? I'm with American Airlines at gate 48a.
 
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