Hobby
 

Gotta have a hobby, or two... or a bazillion.

Monster does ceramics but I think this might be a step up. ;)
A number of holy-shit-that's-how-that's-done, moments.

So what were the holy-shit moments? :/

2:15, 3:23, 4:25, 5:20 but it really doesn't matter because the top ceramics creators in the world don't impress you, do they. :rolleyes:

It was very impressive, but I don't understand what wasn't straightforward technique-wise. Enjoy your thread

My wife paints miniature figures...these figures are used for various games. I'm incredibly impressed with her work. Apparently, so are a lot of other folks...she's taking in awards and getting teaching requests.

http://www.minipainterink.com/

So you knew they formed multi-layers of different color clay then carved them. I've never even seen a finished product of that method. As for shaping the clay with bats, never thought of that either, thought they were molded like that. So it appears I'm a neophyte to your all encompassing knowledge of ceramic art. It's a shame you never enlightened us passed painting glaze on greenware.

She is good, very good! Has you ever painted any of the pewter soldiers?

She has...she can paint pretty much anything. She tends to stick to fantasy/sci-fi stuff though.

This is one of the items she's working on right now:

Very nice work!

There is nothing quite like watching a true master perform his or her art. That video in the op actually made me feel very emotional, simply because of the beauty of the art, and being privileged enough to have the opportunity to see it, albeit via the internet. Truly amazing imo.

she holds her clay covered cards close to her vest...

Actually bruce, i think they were layers of glaze, dried but obviously unfired.

Speaking of pottery glaze, some people were wondering what the binding agent was for the color layer on the terracotta army in China.

No problem, just make model samples, mixing pigments with either animal glue or glue from free-range chicken eggs, then bury for a year.
2-Extract proteins from the model and historical samples, give them an ultrasonic bath, centrifuge, and collect supernatants.
3-Prevent EDTA interference in the polychrome layers of the historical samples by complexation and dialysis.
4-Hydrolyze extracted proteins with sequencing grade trypsin to generate peptide fragments.
5-Then simply compare peptide mass fingerprints generated by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF-MS).

What could be simpler then that, although you might have to borrow a MALDI-TOF-MS from a neighbor, if you don't have one. ;)

Wow, so beautiful.

elSic: Your wife is very talented.

El Syc your Wife rocks.
The potter is pretty good too.

I loved the ceramics video; I could watch it again and again. It's something I could never, despite the utmost exertion of my abilities, do. I'm in awe.

I'm also in awe of people who can paint and make things come to life.

Carry on with the art threads, please (I'm talking to Ali, Limey, Choco, and other Cellar artists, along with those - like Bruce and CaliMama - who find beautiful things online. I appreciate all of it.)!

I've got myself a project:
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The troop leadership discussed buying a couple new Coleman stoves at the last meeting because the old ones have problems. And they said that we would need to come up with a fundraising idea to help pay for them. I fucking hate fundraising. And I like tinkering with stuff, so I asked if I could try to fix the one broken stove before we go out buying more. There's no real rush. Just in the next couple months.

So I took a look in the troop supply closet. I thought we had 3-4 stoves, and one or two were broken. Well, I fixed two of them last night at the meeting. Someone had mixed up the tanks from two different stoves and neither one fit the other. I figured it out and reunited the tanks with the proper stoves. Two stoves fixed for free in 5 minutes of inventory taking.

And then I found these on a lower shelf. They are now currently sitting in my basement at home.

They all have tags saying they leak at valves or don't hold pressure or some similar problem. I'll inspect each one and confirm if they really have a problem. The tags were written by boys with varying degrees of knowledge, so I wouldn't rule out user error. But if I have to spend $50 on gaskets and valve packing from the online Coleman repair store in order to save $600 worth of camp stoves, that's my kind of fundraising. It's fun too.

Plus, these things are freaking filthy. Boys on camping trips rushing through breakfast cooking and cleanup before packing up to head back home don't take great pains to clean things properly.

Check this one out, it's got lots of mold growing on splattered bacon grease or something. Also has a bent manifold bracket that needs to be straightened.
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Bah, that's not mold, it's delicate flavor crystals carefully nurtured on bacon essence. :haha:

Here's one that could be fun but didn't think it was a fun with kids thing, at least not young ones.
These look like those ant-hill/termite-mound castings but much easier.
They'd look cool mounted on gnarly wood or in a fish tank.

Here's a hobby I should get into. If I ever develop creativity...and start drinking from cans.

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That last one was built on a budjet.

What? Ok, one more:

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Bruce, if the whole retirement thing doesn't work out you've got a future in copywriting or naming bills presented by republicans...

;)

Saturday was really productive. I fixed 4 of those 5 broken stoves. The troop has 8 working stoves now and only needed 6. We have 2 functioning extras now.

I had forgotten to bring home fuel to test them, so I had to drive over to the meeting hall to get a gallon of Coleman fuel out of the shed.
All fueled up, many of them did leak when under pressure or in operation. At the valve stem or at the tip of the generator tube where the atomizer nozzle is attached to the tube. And a couple of the pumps didn't work.

The fix was easy for all of them.

For that one with the bent manifold bracket, I took it apart, clamped the bracket in the vise, and used channel lock pliers to straighten it out.

Took apart the non-working pumps and soaked the dried out leather plungers in a dixie cup of oil. And then reassembled.

And for the fuel leaks, just tighten the damn pack nuts at the valve a quarter turn or so. Same thing for the atomizer nut thing at the end of the generator tube.

It took a few hours to do all this, because I had to methodically figure out what was wrong with each stove, as I fired them up and observed them for a while.

Total cost for all parts: $0.00.
Amount saved by not purchasing new stoves: $385.24

I still need to fix the remaining broken stove, but it's got several problems and probably needs the valve to be completed torn down and rebuilt. Not sure we need a 9th working stove so badly.

But do you want the scouts doing this on their own? Best they report it and let you fix'em-up.

in my experience, the scouts are the ones that find out it's broken, probably because they broke it or it was broken when they used it. specific diagnoses like what glatt found is beyond their ability in the field when using the stove to cook, at least for the younger less experienced scouts. I strongly agree that it shouldn't be put back into service but should have a tag/note that indicates it needs service.

eta: passing on the info about what was needed to fix what kind of symptom to the other adults *would* be helpful, since most of what glatt describes sounds like it could be done in the field with a leatherman.

I thought I responded to Bruce, but it apparently got lost in the tubes.

Yeah. You and BigV are right. The boys should report that it's broken. But the adults should do more than just move the stoves into the back of the closet and leave them there for years. And they should definitely inspect the "broken" stoves before deciding in a committee meeting that they should be replaced with new ones. I was glad I was there to stop the madness.

I live in a wealthy area where the parents think nothing of spending money to fix problems and where they know how to write a brief, but tightening a packing nut is beyond them. It's weird sometimes. I benefit from living here amongst them, but it also means there are certain expectations to keep up.

Why? Somebody else will fix them...

So. This guy, he builds models, see. He builds pretty awesome models. His model of the supercarrier USS Forrestal is pretty fucking awesome. It's twelve feet long, and, it and the display case weigh 4000 pounds.

The US Navy heard about this pretty cool model he was building, and wanted to help. So, they sent him the original blueprints to the actual USS Forrestal.

Congress has approved his model to be permanently displayed at the Naval Academy in Annapolis.

Oh, one other thing. Almost everything on the model Forrestal actually works.

You should see the other models, too.

Complete, and total, awesomeness.

I want a shop.

I could do this.

At the end of the video, he even describes his process and hints that plans exist for making a copy of his slack belt sander.

*sigh*

There are damn few hobbyists/craftsmen as interesting as knife makers.

A guy I know used to make knives from, among many other things, disc blades. Like is used to disc a farmer's field.

I liked this guy's choice of materials.

A lot of farm equipment can be repurposed because it's high carbon steel.

Left it big for detail...

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Every year, I see jack-o-lanterns on the net that are fucking amazing. :notworthy

:eek:

This looks like it could be a fun new hobby.

Although, $130,000 is a fairly expensive playset.

:blunt:

Holy shit! But why don't the show the Liebherr excavator, that's a backhoe isn't it? The truck and front end loader clearly say Volvo. It must be that thing holding the log, but that's not an excavator, unless it has multiple attachments. Damn it, I'm not spending $130,000 until somebody 'splain that shit. :eyebrow:

You don't need 130k, 5-10k will do it. Useful information can be found in the Discussion section.

Somebody has too much time and money on their hands:

:notworthy

Wow! With some quick estimations, I came up with around 3,000 scales that he wood burned and then painted individually. One at a time.

He must be retired. :eek:

I didn't watch it, I am not taking that image to bed with me.

The flow of this thread seems to be oriented more towards the hands on, but never let it be said that I couldn't bull my own self interest right spang into the middle of an otherwise perfectly created flow.

https://soundcloud.com/elspode/i-wish-i-didnt-care

:lol: Flow? Cellar? :lol2: You know better than that. You and your black pussy are always welcome in any thread. ;)

A Russian A-10 Warthog? Damn straight. With working flare dispensers, and a simulated run on a Russian APC.:devil:

If you're going to the trouble and expense of building an RC model jet, why not do the best damn plane.

I'd bet the dude what built it cried. I would have. The model Grippen wieghed ~220 lbs.

Gets real at about 1:46 in:



One second you got a really nice Saab Grippen model rc plane...The next second you used to have a really nice Saab Grippen model rc plane.

Can you imagine the time, effort , and cash he had in that plane?:(

Better bigger.

I'd like to see a controlled water takeoff, landing (ha, land... watering?), and taxiing.

A 47 lb Ch-53D:devil::

Looks like the blades are marked for specific locations, probably for balance.

An RC Spruce Goose!!!:devil:

And it flies beautifully!



You can have one, al$o.

$1,075 is only the beginning, that's just the wood... and it ain't even spruce. :haha:

B-377 Super Guppy RC Model



Heh, I'll bet the real thing don't crash nearly that well.

ETA: That was a beautiful, graceful crash, too.

Hold on there, How does a Boeing B-377 become an Airbus Skylink? :eyebrow:

From the Wiki link:

Maybe he had older model model and got some new hotness stickers to jazz it up? You know, so it would stand out from the other Super Guppy RC models on the runway.

Skip to 7:30 for the good/bad part.



Crashier bigger. Oh, yeah, turn up the sound, this plane sounds great.