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Hey everyone, I owe you all a sincere apology. I disappeared, and that’s not okay. Depression is a real struggle, and it hit me hard over the past year. Trying to navigate life after the pandemic was tougher than I anticipated, and things started slipping away from me, especially in the last six months. It […]
Here are the instruction for how to assemble and finish your Blade Runner 2049 Replica Baseline Scanner Kit from Yay Monsters
Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies (Makes 14 cookies) Ingredients 8.75 oz of bread flour ½ teaspoon of baking soda 14 tablespoons unsalted butter 6.5 oz dark brown sugar 2.25 oz granulated sugar 2 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 teaspoon salt 1 large egg plus 1 large yolk 2 tbs whole milk 7.5 oz Ghirardelli Semisweet chocolate chips) […]
A long time ago, like a really really long time ago I got two awesome Christmas gifts. One was this poster of President Gerald R. Ford as Fonzie- The other was a cherry Millennium Falcon (from my Uncle Roy). I have no idea where it went, but if my parents still have it, it’s coming […]
When I started this, I was a die hard throw clay on a bust and sculpt your way to an awesome piece. Since it was always someone else’s dime doing a waste mold (molding and casting a piece to get to a stage where you can refine it) was par for the course. People were […]
I took on a project that required vacuforming some parts, but my www.build-stuff.com Proto-Form has a 24″ x 24″ bed. The client had a dental vacuform which was tiny and horribly inconsistent. There was no way I was going to get 500 parts out of it. So it was time to upgrade my vacuform- who […]
Notes from watching a matrix molding tutorial from Volpin Props on Twitch.
Pepakura is a papercraft process that allows you to take a digital 3D object, convert it to a set of flat shapes that you can fold and connect into a 3D object in the real world. It is often then reinforced and built up using automotive body filler, or paper mache and finished into a […]
Learn how to size a helmet for pepakura and you can use this method to size the rest of your armor. Watching a lot of cosplayers, the really great ones are quickly building without patterns and models. Before you can freehand some original foam armor in time for a movie premier opening, you’re gonna have […]
Building a vacuform machine for the shop. Included are all resources I used to learn how to do it.
