Late Post: The Last Two Days Leading Up to Maker Faire

I'm sure I tried to write a blog entry when there was only one day to go.  An entry was started that (fortunately) didn't get posted because it was pretty much just a bunch of misspelled foul language.  There should at least have been pictures.

So I've deleted that false start and here's a quick recap.

Counting down to the last two days, at some point the Grey Knight got it's last letter added:


The right hand got painted:


And the left hand was cast:


The last few pieces that were in primer were basecoated and blackwashed and the decision was made to rig the whole thing up as a statue instead of making it wearable for the weekend.  I'm not sure I'd have had anyone to wear it anyway.

For the T-60, I tasked my friends Madison and Vinny with weathering all of the parts of my suit:




Here he is putting some rust on the back:


The end result was pretty great:


I say "my suit" because my former assistant Freddy was using my molds to make one for himself as well.  We decided it would be good enough if his copy was fully rigged and walking around while mine would be a static display at the booth.  Here he is putting some additional touches on his copy:


Then test-fitting some of his rigging:


And finally, assembling the hands:


Somewhere along the way, I assembled the three new parts of the display booth:

They were primed and painted too, but I was too strung out to get pics.

At some point, we got the base silver color on three sets of parts for the Mouser bots, but by then it was becoming clear that they wouldn't be able to be assembled and painted in time to show at the event.  Here's Agatha finishing up the silver:


That's about the same time we had to start pulling out the trailers to load everything up:


Somewhere late at night, exhaustion set in and we started dropping out to go get sleep:


The next day we put the last few finishing touches on the things we couldn't deal with on site, hitched up the trailers, went to Fundemonium to load up ED-209, hoisted the booth parts into the bed of the truck, and we were on our way.

The shop was some kind of disaster, but that could wait:


On to the Faire...