Countdown! Seven Days Until Maker Faire.

Note:  This blog entry is posted late because I fell asleep at the keyboard last night when I was typing it.  Aside from wiping the drool off my keyboard and deleting the last sentence*, I made no other changes.

According to Forrest Gump, "Momma always says there's an awful lot you could tell about a person by their shoes."  I wonder sometimes what my work boots say about me:


In any case, it's late and the mind wanders.

Today I had a lot of help in the shop.  First, my friend Ian stopped by to get a break from his own workshop remodel.  He set to work prepping parts to mold:


My assistant Chuck spent her time casting parts for the Mousers:


Her sister Agatha spent some quality time smoothing out helmets:


These two idiots were pretty much always underfoot:


And my friend Sierra spent some quality time smoothing out the Grey Knight chest:


While she was working on that, I traced out the shape for the little shield for the Grey Knight's left shoulder:






Here's the prototype held in place for size:


Then I gave it a few very rushed rounds of Bondo and sanding:


Finally, the whole thing was primed:


Tiki was not impressed:


That done, I laid out the belt buckle:


Cut the outline on the scroll saw:


Shaped it a bit on the belt sander:


Added some putty and bits of plastic:


Smoothed it out:


Then laid on a quick coat of primer to get it ready for molding:


Tiki was still unimpressed:


At some point in the evening, Freddy came by and made some great progress on the lower legs for the T-60.  He also tried out the stilts for the first time:

Fortunately he didn't stumble and break himself or any of the armor parts.

Somewhere early on, I also laid up the first half of the mothermold for the last two big parts of the Mousers:


I should have those mothermolds finished tomorrow and hopefully the first few casts out of each mold.

Most of the Minigun parts are ready to mold too:


Ian will be concentrating on setting those molds up tomorrow.

Sierra made a bit of progress on smoothing out my hand sculpt for the Grey Knight:


That, and the weapons for the Grey Knight, is the biggest concern I have right now.  Everything else is on track to be amazing.

*If you really must know, the last sentence originally read, "I just need the dog list happenasadddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd."