thanks >>69

Also...
What kind of paper should I use?
the majority of the models a 120g/m²(67lb) cardstock.
bigger projects use 180g/m²(100lb bond) and for smaller projects/parts use 90g/m²(36lb).
btw conversion of g/m² to lb might be off

What kind of glue to use?
Any type of glue made for paper.
-Elmer's glue
-Aleene's tacky glue

whaty else do i need?
-X-acto knife

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I cracked up. Also, nice sewing!

Thank you!

Summer has turned into Autumn and early Winter here, and I've got more to show for it; largely the most recent version of a costume I made for Steampunk tomfoolery. May I present Graf Georg von Ziger, Captain in the First Imperial Sky Hussars.

Additions yet to be made: The buttons, as sewn on the vest, will be continued onto the jodhpurs; They will run the outer edge of the trim with alternating wing baubles like on the vest. I don't plan on continuing the center line of buttons, as cool as that might look.

Also, I'm going to add some epaulets, I think, and maybe some other neat rank-indicative items. We shall see about those, though.

When I was in the 8th grade we had a project involving cutting styrofoam (which would later become the structure for some papier-mâché projects). After a few days of cutting the foam blocks with saws, my instructor finds this machine that heats up a metal wire. We spend the next few weeks running foam blocks through it until I push my block through too hard breaking the wire; everyone is pissed at me but it is fixed by the next day. This thing put out loads of this white smoke you're talking about into the air, not to mention it wasn't a very large room, and poorly ventilated at that.

I probably have cancer now.

No, I have no breathing problems from hours of exposure, you should be good.

>>644
hahaha ooooohhh shit.

Yeah I'm not at all worried about a short exposure like this, it's styrofoam not cyanide. But I'd still like to know about if this is really a problem. I've heard various things, some say it's not dangerous as long as you're outside, others like the guy above to use a gas mask and goggles while outside.

I dunno

>>646
Think about it for a second, if you're outside and have a fan or a breeze, the smoke isn't going to hang around to poison you, and considering the size of outside, it's not going to be concentrated enough to be any more dangerous than living near a busy street.

That being said, avoid large quantities of smoke as a matter of course. Small puffs will simply dissipate.

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they sell legos by the pound on ebay for not much money. melting plastic is a very toxic thing to do, i would suggest just buying bricks in bulk.

Yeah it's pretty dangerous and kind of hard to do, since even molten plastic is still a pretty viscous substance and hard to pour and properly fill a mould, especially a small one for lego pieces. I think lego's are made by the process of vaccuform anyway.

>>652

Nevermind me, turns out they are mold formed.

Since 1963, Lego pieces have been manufactured from a strong, resilient plastic known as acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS).[1] As of September 2008, the engineers use the NX CAD/CAM/CAE PLM software suite to model the elements. The software allows the parts to be optimized by way of mold flow and stress analysis. Prototype molds are sometimes built before the design is committed to mass production. The ABS plastic is heated to 232 °C (450 °F) until at a dough-like consistency. It is then injected into the molds at pressures between 25 and 150 tons, and takes approximately 7 seconds to cool. The molds are permitted a tolerance of up to two thousandths of a millimeter (2×10−6 m), to ensure the bricks remain connected.[2] Human inspectors check the output of the molds, to eliminate significant variations in color or thickness. Worn-out molds are encased in the foundations of buildings to prevent them from falling into competitors' hands

Sounds like an excellent idea. If I had one of those, it'd be like the best part of my day.

fuck i want those so bad.

showers are amazing and anything to make it awesome it awesome.

I feel that I have to say that that sand looks just like a huge pile of naked people seen from a great distance.

That's pretty cool.

Dude, we have the same phone :D

holy shit!! Embed a mobile phone in one of the horns!!! Imagine how hilarious that would be! Record the sound of the horn you are making being blown as a ringtone! DO IT!

Better still, cut tiny holes in the hown for individual phone buttons. AWESOME!

You can use steam to bend wood. There's a bunch of ways to do it, but yeah, if you want to bend it...steam.

If you plan to use it then you'll need to pick your wood carefully. The choice of wood will also dictate how you shape it as some woods do not work well by bending in steam.

If you do a lot of work with wood you should make sure to get a mask. If you are doing it daily then get a proper sealed and air filtered system (the good quality ones with air pumps). Stops all manner of diseases in the short and long term.

Go to a junk yard and ask the guy who owns it, but be careful not to get ripped off.

Most cars these days have a pretty high content of zinc.

Wouldn't you be better using scrap metal or stock metal bars that suit your needs, rather than casting?