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Hobbyblogging: can cart
Jul. 4th, 2020 06:27 pmBackground: So I play Splatoon 2. My housemate had a switch and a copy she never played, so I got pretty into it for a bit, even though I'm not very good. I find the setting interesting, so naturally I started making OCs, and one of them was this lil guy:
His name is Argo, and he's an octotrooper who fled the Octarian Empire and now sells fruits, vegetables, and the occasional fruit juice flavored shaved ice. I'm very fond of him.
I like making figurines out of polymer clay and decided I wanted to make a little sculpt of him. However, his design in and of itself just isn't that interesting. He's usually green instead of red, but otherwise he's just a standard octotrooper. It's his produce cart that has all the expressive little details. So, obviously, I had to make the cart too.
This has turned out to require slightly more engineering than I might have initially expected.
Most recently I've been having trouble with something I didn't really expect to be a huge issue: the door hinges. Curling the metal from the can directly into hinges is awkward and terrible. I can make very nice, neat hinges from paperclips, but they're difficult to attach. I've given up on soldering them and am now trying epoxy putty. The real thing will hopefully not be so sloppy. At this point I just want to see if it actually holds them and the door actually swings open.
That's about it for today. Not a very exciting inaugural post, but hopefully future updates will be more interesting.
His name is Argo, and he's an octotrooper who fled the Octarian Empire and now sells fruits, vegetables, and the occasional fruit juice flavored shaved ice. I'm very fond of him.
I like making figurines out of polymer clay and decided I wanted to make a little sculpt of him. However, his design in and of itself just isn't that interesting. He's usually green instead of red, but otherwise he's just a standard octotrooper. It's his produce cart that has all the expressive little details. So, obviously, I had to make the cart too.
This has turned out to require slightly more engineering than I might have initially expected.
Most recently I've been having trouble with something I didn't really expect to be a huge issue: the door hinges. Curling the metal from the can directly into hinges is awkward and terrible. I can make very nice, neat hinges from paperclips, but they're difficult to attach. I've given up on soldering them and am now trying epoxy putty. The real thing will hopefully not be so sloppy. At this point I just want to see if it actually holds them and the door actually swings open.
That's about it for today. Not a very exciting inaugural post, but hopefully future updates will be more interesting.
