ModelMakerMike
"It's Slobberin' time""
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Hello everyone!!!!
I am not sure how many of you are aware of the Trend/fashion genre called "Steam Punk".
A good friend of mine have been fond of this type of stuff LONG before there was anything called "Steam punk".
Last Saturday, I was at his house, and someone, either his wife, him, or I blurted out "Steam-Punkin", and I said, yeah, we could go to Michael's crafts, and get a couple Fake pumpkins, and give 'em the Steam Punk treatment.
He and I ran off, and picked up some supplies. I got two pumpkins, the large one and one about half that size. We got a strobe light led set each, a couple packets of brads, one copper, and one silver.
This first picture shows the Jack-o-lantern with varies parts gathered around. I painted everything today, and hope to do more assembly, and detail painting tomorrow, or maybe the next day. ;D
Here you can see the chrome I painted on the inside, hopefully to reflect the light, and make it look brighter. Also, I have the Steam whistle set on the pipe on his right side.
Close up on the whistle.
The brass latch and hasp set up I bought at Home Depot Weds.?
Here is the Gauge I greebled together out of a Prescription bottle cap, and a piece of sheet styrene. I am going to paint the details on it, or maybe try and make a decal.
Here is a brass hinge that I also picked up at Home Depot. It is fastened to the pumpkin with 4 of the Copper Brads from Michaels.
Okay, a couple years ago, I picked up a few little stands from the dollar store. The were intended for Laser etched plastic cubes. I just bought the stands.
They have three leds; yellow, red, blue. They slowly fade from one to the next. I cut off the stem, and carved a hole for it. I am going to glue a Prescription bottle on top of a Scotch tape reel, and glue that right over the hole so the light shines up through it, and then the conical "hat" goes on top of that.
Here you can see the insides of the LED thingy. It's mostly batteries.
It is glued, and Duct taped into position. You can also see how I had to carve away some of the foam, so I could fold down the "wings" of the brads to keep them and the hinge in place. 
Here is the strobe light thingy that will go inside the pumpkin to light the eyes/goggles, and mouth.
Here is a kind of close up of the Prescription bottle, and one of the goggles. I took a cap from a bottle of tropicana orange juice, and carved the center out of it, and sanded/cut all the grooves out of it. You can see the outter cover I made for the goggles. I have some textured clear plastic that some garment bags came in at work, so I sprayed them with a Translucent red, and cut circles out of it for lenses for the goggles. The lens will fit between the juice cap, and the sheet styrene cover, then Brads will be put through the holes, and spread on the back to fasten the goggles together.
Here's a close up of the Hat cap that I made for the chimney/prescription bottle that's going to light up. I took some of that clear plastic (which glue didn't want to work on) cut a circle, and then made a staright cut to the center of it. Slid a bit of it over the other edge, and put a silver Philips head brad through it, and fastened it! Then I glued that on top of another bottle cap.
There's a lot of details I didn't cover, but the Grate over the mouth is just some extra styrene strips my friend gave to me a few years ago, and then I attached them to the Pumpkin with more of the copper brads.
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I am not sure if any of you would find this interesting or not, but I had to share what I have been working on.....and what's keeping me from the M.F. Build!!!!!!!! Darn my A.D.D. !!!! whats' that? a shiny object? SQUIRREL!!!!
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