Techpriest Enginseer field manual

Page 7 - Finishing touches

All that was left to be done was to take care of the nice and sleek appearance of the book. With another liberal amount of glue and cloth I made soft walls for the laptop inside the book. For the time being the bottom covered with cloth is a ~5mm thick polystyrene sheet, I am considering a variation for the future where it will be replaced with a double bottom. 5mm isn’t much, but it’s enough to carry either a spare SD card, a flash drive, USB adapter/compact extension cable or even small amount of documents.

I painted black a 12 teeth gear wheel (from the smaller diameters) and glued it to the lock together with a metal ring. I also painted silver the wrench/lock, mounted it and wrote my rank on it ;)

A single step towards completion was left. Since this is a Techpriest field manual, it was supposed to be full of prayers, rites, liturgies and incantations. Besides it’s much cooler not to reveal the true purpose of the “book” even when you open it. Sadly I had made one more engineering mistake and inserting the list of ten rites and one liturgy, made locking impossible, the thickness of 11 pages was too much for the lock. That’s why I narrowed it down to a single rite – Rite of Protection. Under the circumstances it seemed most appropriate and besides, Techpriest are supposed to know their rites by heart anyway.