In the Soup with lentils!

Set walls, Set walls, and more set walls!!

I have been working hard trying to get all the set walls built altered  and finished, I previously mentioned about using lentils for a riveted effect on the internal spacecraft walls.......well  I have done 1 and a bit panels (which took forever) and have these made up to a grey primed finish...see picture below.

 

Inner wall of spacecraft riveted and primed

Large side window looking into space

Entrance into spacecraft sequence

Kitchen door panel and storyboard comparison

Window inset into kitchen wall

I'm very pleased with how the rivets are looking but there are still about 6 more panels to do!! but still unsure of the finish for these panels.
Also have decided on a Julian Clarkes armature for the last puppet which I recieved the other day, more about that soon.

Doors come in all shapes and sizes!

I have been working on some of the internal doors for the sets.

Picture (1) back and front of door from humble kitchen to future space world.

Picture (2) renovation of the Escape pod door......the wife bought a cherry pie from the local Supermarket and the plastic packaging was the perfect size to go on the centre of the door, it had some embossed writing on a few panels so I cut some rectangular bits of hardboard to cover them up.
I then finished the curround super gluing more split lentils for rivets. 

Staircase video tutorial

This tutorial took me longer to edit than I had expected....condencing about 1 1/2 hr footage down to about 16 mins.
Didn't manage to get it done before my Easter break away but here it is now.

Stairway to success....lets hoping!! (Double Post)

Long time since I built some stairs.....but not to this scale!

I have built a small bottom portion of a staircase to help the narrative of the story.

Painted stairs

Finished staircase angle 1

Finished staircase angle 2

 

Complete with stair rods

Stair rods made from cut pieces of 2mm Ali armature wire with gold paint.
Due to a previous request I also made a video of the making of the stairs which I hope to get edited and uploaded possible some time next week.


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Old sets & rivets

I dragged out the original space craft set from my loft the other day to see how things had fared, things on the whole are looking good.
I have changed and updated things since I first came up with the story so my next job was to see how the set fits in....... it's looking like only a few extra panels to build, that's pleasing but I have decided to go with the riveted look so now that's a lot of work.

The sets will be re-skinned with hardboard before panelling a rivets are attached

Riveted Panelled Wall

I have been doing a bit of an experiment this week making a test  panel to mimic a steel riveted panel for use on one of the sets.

Again I used split lentils glued with super glue for the rivet effect

 

The wall was sprayed with matt black with several mist coats of silver on top, I like the effect apart from it is a bit too shiny giving off a glare.

Cleaner/Utility Robot Finished

In my last post I mention that I had been multi - tasking.....well I had been toing and froing between 
making furniture set pieces and building my scratch built Cleaner/Utility Robot all painted and assembled here are the step by step photos below.

From consept to finished puppet 

Putting together recycled bits and bobs for robot build
Hands were made of machined hard wood, sculptured fingers made from sculpy bend & bake plus other body parts, grey ridged silicon oven shelve protector tube used for arms over internal aluminium armature (see botttom of picture 2 - 3rd frame) brass K&S square tube has been used at the ends of the aluminium armature plus for joining socket in the body, halved ping pong balls have been used for sholder caps and lentils again have been used for rivets.


Finished Robot with replaceable eyes held on by a magnetic strip 

 

Kitchen Bits and New Paint Job

It's been a couple of weeks since my last post and I have been multi - tasking, I have been making bits for the kitchen set Fridge, wall units and finished the new paint job, I have also started making a scratch built robot for the film but more about that soon.

Step by step pictures below

 

New built wall cuboards

Painted doors

Bending and cutting new handles

Finished hinged wall cupboard

MDF frame of fridge and door

Routering round edges on fridge

White enamel spray job

Sculpy bake and bend fridge handle

Finished Fridge all bar the name/logo

Finished kitchen units and all

More updates soon......