Novelty pencil airlines

 

When my friend and I were on our way home from my cousin's funeral last Friday and, we dropped in on a cemetery, one coffee shop and two Op Shops. We spent a while at the first Op Shop and I had perused the DVDs, CDs and perused and selected several books. My friend was going through all the dresses skirts and shoes, and wasn't done when I had just about seen everything I wanted to. But a bundle of pencils caught my eye they included novelty pencils with two rubbers on one end "HAMMER OUT YOU CLEANING NEEDS".

It wasn't till later when we had convened at the coffee shop later that we found out the bundle also included novelty pencils with a rubber at each end "THIS PENCIL WAS MADE ESPECIALLY FOR OUR COMPETITORS TO WRITE QUOTES” or “THIS PENCIL WAS MADE ESPECIALLY FOR OUR COMPETITORS TO WRITE NEW BUSINESS ". Of course I fiddled around with the pencils at the coffee shop trying to get them to stand up on their ends or balance them in some sort of tower. That night I passed a set of the pencils on to our friend Christine at her place over dinner. The next day I was busy but later while bored watching the TV (this was Saturday night) I started assembling the pencils together with a fold back clip and after a short amount of time came up with and aeroplane on a stand. 

This looked quite good but just needed a tail for the plane – I made one out of sticky tape (pic 1) but wasn’t satisfied. A few days later and a “proper” tail is complete along with a lame joke along the lines of what is written on the pencils. Cad pic made using Bricscad.

Regards Steve Nurse