Saturday Hobby, Craft and Bodging Thread

Greetings all. Hope your weekend's going well. As for me, I managed to strip wallpaper off a wall where our bookcase/wall unit will go, since the furniture is set to arrive perhaps as early as Tuesday. I'll prime and paint tomorrow. If only I could put myself in fast forward mode like all those videos on YouTube. Speaking of which. . .

Anyway, let's all head to the garage, basement, shop space, craft room, studio or wherever it is you go to lose yourself for a few hours and get creative. What projects are you all working on or have planned?

NOTE: This is not an open thread. Please restrict comments to hobbies and such.

First up, I just discovered this guy's channel and it's a nice tutorial about scratch-bashing a spaceship from concept art. He uses mostly sheet styrene for the body, and it's one of the most versatile model making materials around.

For you painters, you'll look at clouds from both sides now. Or at least with only three colors with this easy technique.

Nicely scratch built ship model of the Black Pearl from Pirates of the Caribbean. Looks mostly to be made from scrap materials too. This is the first video of a three part series.

Considering the skills it takes to make model airplanes the old fashioned way, out of stick and tissue, it's amazing what people are doing with things like foam board and depron. And in scale, nonetheless like this Reaper drone.

All I can say is, I want this guy around when the apocalypse comes. That he was able to rebuild an engine with only the barest minimum of tools, let alone remember how everything is supposed to go back together is insane.

The Ace of Clay returns with another sculpting video, this time with an original character of his own. Lots of techniques on how to create characters from Sculpey.

I love when people restore old items and rescue them from the dumpster. Here's a great old lamp that would fit in in most modern or eclectic settings.

Brit Carl Rogers and his father are restoring/refurbishing an old French farmhouse (must be nice to have shit-tons of money, no?). Here's part 2 of the reconstruction of an old oak staircase. I admire his craftsmanship. Look at the other videos, especially how he dismantled and reconstructed a massive tile roof and the ancient timber frames holding it all up.

posted by J.J. Sefton at 05:00 PM

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