#russ bachman

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The First Soldier Episode Two Poster

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is that annoying camera guy dead yet or what

It's only been two chapters so the asshole is STILL alive and STILL invading Miniroth's personal space.

I thought Bachman was going to be our breakout new OC but nope lol Alissa immediately seized that trophy away from him.

[jaquis-desolate-world]

[togachipblog]

 MODEL TRUCKER

Your Toga Chip Guy gets calls from all over the world with all kinds of questions regarding the potato chip.   A previous blog post was about a man named Alan from Washington State, a Boeing retiree, who bought an old Dickey's Potato Chip truck to restore.  He requested my assistance to find the authentic logos to redecorate the refurbished truck.  Several years later I was contacted by Russ, the subject of today's blog post.  

Russ spent his career as a driver for a beer and wine distributor in Connecticut.  After retiring about seven years ago, he relocated from the Springfield, MA suburb of Ludlow, MA to his childhood area of Andover, Maine, not far from Mount Washington, New Hampshire. Russ' hobby is decorating blank model trucks.   He started out focusing on home delivery milk brands he remembers from his childhood .  Hen then moved on to bread delivery trucks and more recently has honed in on snack delivery trucks, most notably potato chip brands.  Many of these companies are now defunct and since I have researched many of these companies and posted about them on my TogaChipGuy.comwebsite under the section entitled "Building an Industry" Russ reached out to me for help in obtaining the proper logos, and company script including font and colors.  I had already obtained photos of many of these and knew where to reach out for help for those which I had not already secured.  

The first thing Russ does is find and acquire blank trucks of all styles such as delivery vans, step vans, tankers etc.  They are plastic and normally all white.  These blank models are hard to find and normally are sold as part of a collector's liquidation.  Recently Russ found seven for sale of which he purchased five.  . Many of the models are of Detroit Industrial Vehicle Company ("DIVCO") produced trucks.  Others are GMC models from the 1950's., Bulldog, Atlas and Athearn trucks  The hot wheels, matchbox, and other diecast metal models are generally not suitable since they are already decorated with various brands.  When he has to use the metal diecast model, Russ uses rubbing alcohol and Qtips to strip the painted logos and lettering.  He avoids using any more powerful materials so as not to  remove the underlying paint on the metal models  Russ uses HO models that are similar sized and correspond the HO model trains.   They are smaller than the larger O models.  For the milk trucks, Russ includes the refrigerator box that was affixed to the top of the truck.

Securing the authentic logos and lettering is the most time consuming challenge.  Business cards, invoices, letterheads and company postcards on clear backgrounds normally have clear backgrounds and are the best sources.  Old tins are more difficult as they are rounded and vintage bags are usually wrinkled.  

One he gets good images, Russ uses his computer (often with the assistance of his wife), to produce decal images of the logo and lettering.   Sometimes his wife enhances the colors with colored pencils.  He prints the logos and lettering on decals with sticky paper.  Since the models are small, the decals must be sized and  can also be very small, depending upon where they are placed on the models, such as doors or windows.   Tweezers are often needed to place the decals on the proper spots.  He likes to add the address and phone numbers on the doors and strives for all of this to be authentic.  

Russ makes models of brands that are not already marketed.  "I make models of the brands you can't buy."  You don't really make any money so I end up giving many of them away to places such as museums.  For example, a blank model will cost about $20, and after all of his effort to decorate it, he would be lucky to get about $40 for it.  

Among the potato chip brands Russ has made are Bachman's, Frito-Lay, Granite State, Humpty Dumpty, Stateline,  Utz, and Wise.  The companies  that he is currently researching are Castonguay's of Lewiston, Maine, Circus Time, and King Cole.  Russ displays his work with photos on his Russ Towle Facebook page.  https://www.facebook.com/russtowle.  The models are shown in front of a model train warehouse.  See his of potato chip brands below.  

Enjoy the Grateful Dead singing Truckin

The Toga Chip Guy

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silicon valley pacific rim au

hear me out.

richard hendricks is developing jaeger tech. no one thinks it will amount to anything, least of all erlich bachman, who believes in the wall gavin belson is building. he wants 10% when it works

eventually richard manages to get the neural handshake to work, and he drifts with jared. it quickly becomes apparent that jared is drift compatible with anyone due to his ability to completely cast aside his own identity in order to fulfil the wishes of people he works under

dinesh and gilfoyle are drift compatible. this is discovered in an episode where jared suggests the possibility when they are trying to find other drift compatible pairs, a possibility immediately rejected by both. they spend the episode trying to be completely unpredictable and make deliberately incorrect predictions about what each other are doing, in doing so accidentally guess correctly. they make a great team, a fact they utterly despise. imagine them trying to root through each other's memories...

russ hanneman keeps trying to drift with attractive women but always fails. eventually he succeeds with erlich.

not sure what to do with big head tbh

tara turns out to be a scavenger selling jaeger parts she steals from anywhere she can

this started as a joke but this would legitimately be so good

[elioddity]

hey, i made a silicon valley thing! as far as i know it’s the only “as vines” video for s.v.

 sorry if the videos change size...

[a-pair-of-boys-back-in-business]

Silicon Valley finale thoughts:

- 10 YEARS?

- they showed the hug!

- they look so good, I'm gonna cry 😭

- Dinesh and his terrible karaoke

- I knew when he said scrumptious that Richard was in the cake

- OH NO RUSS

- oh God, what did Richard figure out and how is it going to fuck them?

- why are we talking about Erlich???

- oh my gosh, am I a loser for laughing at Richard's joke?

- "clif bars and a gun."

- Gilfoyle is on fire this episode

- Pied Piper will ruin the world?!?!?

- poor Richard, all this fucking time 😭

- Laurie is in prison?!

- Jared is the fucking best 😭😭😭

- this is so insane, they have to kill their baby

- I'm going to miss Dinesh so much

- "That is the most courageous act of cowardice I've ever seen."

- "Don't let me through."

- Richard public speaking without vomiting?!?!

- John, no!!!

- Dinesh has to fuck everything up like he does best

- "Who wrote this shit?" Jared, obviously

- EXCUSE ME, DID YOU SEE HOW JARED AND RICHARD LOOKED AT EACH OTHER?

- Richard, my poor darling 😭

- Lmao. Dinesh walking up these steps in such a mood

- "Did you do one push up?"

- LET DINESH IN

- GOD, THANK YOU GILFOYLE

- It's fucking with the dogs?!

- THEY LITERALLY ARE PIED PIPER WHATTHEFUCK

- Russ looks like a fucking werewolf

- BILL GATES?!?

- the idea of Jared and Richard travelling together godddd

- I'm low-key mad Big Head is considered Richard's best friend

- DINFOYLE FOREVER

- of course Jared is working with elderly people

- thank God, no Erlich

- ALWAYS BLUE 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

- holy shit, where is the flash drive?!?! That's it?!?

Oh my God, that was it. I need a fucking doctor. No Jarrich but Jesus, what a finale. I miss them already. 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[sapphicsidonia]

There’s nothing like plot spiraling with ur bff about the jarrich frat AU fic ur co-writing Plz tell me whether this would be received well

[rosy-crow]

Istg Alissa…you are CASTING THOSE ILLUSIONS!! I can SEE you!

“Look” she says. Okay hmm, what will we see?

GEE BIG SURPRISE

Convenient how the only time you’re not in a cowering position in battle is when the dragons have your purple orbs around them…

Girl…

Oh hmm, I wonder what you’re gonna show them THIS time…

Mhmm.

10/10 subtle foreshadowing here

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Russ Bachman the nosy fujoshi that you are

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we should just stab bachman

I feel you, anon. Bachman's kind of an asshole lol. I'll be VERY lenient with him and say that he probably doesn't really know what Miniroth has been through. He's just there to film. He's basically just doing his job.

BUT you have to draw a line when you have a very young teenager being publicly exploited to such a degree. He keeps disrespecting Sephiroth's desires for privacy, even when Sephiroth is very visibly uncomfortable. And that just makes Bachman feel all kinds of gross to me. I'll be happy if he sorta learns to chill out over time. But right now he's EASILY the most expendable member of the group.

[jaquis-desolate-world]

Bachman was never heard from again.

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Silicon Valley Asks

Richard Hendrix - Describe an app you wish existed.

Jared Dunn - Who is the “carer” of your friends group?

Dinesh Chugtai - Are you competetive?

Bertram Gilfoyle - Name something that makes you unique or different from most of society.

Erlich Bachman - What is your hidden talent?

Jian-Yang - Are you more cunning or straight forward?

Big Head - Describe a terrible app idea.

Gavin Belson - Do you care about any specific brands or are you more indifferent to brands/brand culture?

Peter Gregory - How eccentric are you on a scale of 1-10?

Russ Hanneman - Which character, besides Jared, definitely fucks?

Monica Hall - How patient are you?

Laurie Bream - Who was the worst boss?

Carla Walton - Who is your favourite character?

Jack Barker - Who is your least favourite character?

Ron LaFlamme - Which character do you think is underrated?

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A rack of sorts by Russ Morris

Jourdan-Bachman Pioneer Farms PhotowalksGTX, 2017.06.17 Austin, TX

[musiquedujour]

26 Jul 17, Post #2

Hoobastank: The Reason

Tori Kelly: Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing

Stevie Wonder: Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing

Akon ft. Eminem: Smack That

Hinder: Better Than Me

Mariah Carey: We Belong Together

Baby Bash ft. Frankie J: Suga Suga

Francesco Yates & Robin Schulz: Sugar

Daughtry: It's Not Over

The Fray: Over My Head (Cable Car)

Kid Cudi: Day ‘n’ Nite

Blu Cantrell: Hit 'Em Up Style (Oops!)

Maroon 5: This Love

Aaliyah ft. Timbaland: Try Again

Annie Lennox: Walking on Broken Glass

Spice Girls: Wannabe

Savage Garden: Truly Madly Deeply

MC Hammer: U Can't Touch This

Tal Bachman: She's So High

DJ Kool: Let Me Clear My Throat

Janet Jackson: Go Deep

Hootie & the Blowfish: Time

Dan + Shay: How Not To

Childish Gambino: Redbone

Russ: Me You