This has got a great atmosphere. I really dig this.

thanks.

saved again by cheap gradients and color overlays.

Great picture.

By curiosity... Is any information on what he is assembling ? I guess the round black part is the back of a galvanometer, but the squares ones ? Lamps? Switchs? ^^

OH BOY SOMEONE FINALLY ASKED!

ahem

since reality is often the root of fantasy, it's no surprise that this is partially real.
this relates a vast series of repairs i'd done on a large cardboard baler control panel
(and the rest of the machine, electrical/hydraulic/mechanical)
and this partially expresses my desire to have done more extensive (and permanent) rework.
but that in the background is the baler (and a pallet rack)
the box lid has a meter movement, but the white squares are contact blocks
for the panel mounted operators (start stop direction auto/man)

there was a lot of things wrong with that thing, and it was all i could do
to even get repair approval after some DUMBASS (i.e. a person in particular) ritually broke it
it's no wonder they now have a smaller older, shittier used machine since i left.
they probably managed to break it for the nth time and nobody was there to fix it
so they called central and got shipped someone else's temporarily working garbage equipment

this is why i both like the prospect of being an engineer instead of a maintenance peon
but at the same time i have an immense distrust of managerial types of all breeds


the tools are identical to the ones i carried every day
klein 12098 and a custom hex chucked screwdriver
i don't relate myself with the the character
but it just happens like that when i'm unimaginative.