Space Robots from Outer Space
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Demolition
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Lots of neat projects on this thread! Impressive stuff.
Wish i could put a love and a laugh, the engines on the red bike are great, got a kick out of the campfire scene. Thank you for putting in the work its all awesome.
...dunno about sweet leaf, looks like a lot of 'shrooms to me! 
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Thanks for the nice comments. I deleted my instagram account and quit facebook. I will try to replace the photos that are now missing in this thread. Although I have been working on things, I haven't really felt like posting anything because the world is exploding... I will try.
I get you...
I sometimes feel something similar, but you have some folks here that very much appreciate your posts and talents!
I sometimes feel something similar, but you have some folks here that very much appreciate your posts and talents!
Demolition
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I ditched facebook and most social media 11 years ago, one of the best things I've ever done
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I kinda went nuts and built a robot workshop / hangout thingy. I will post some of the progress shots here. I wanted to make the background interesting, so I tried making a brick wall. I used my laser to engrave the lines on a sheet of foam board after pealing the paper off one side. It cut a bit too deep so I had trouble getting the paint into the grooves. It did not turn out how I wanted, but it looks ok. I was thinking about going back and adding some variation to the bricks colors, but not sure if I will. I used my table saw to cut the pieces of wood. I used stuff I had laying around. Oak for the timbers and decking, walnut for the wall and ceiling planks. Still in progress.
Brilliant contrast between your post and beam construction and the futuristic robots!
Had to laugh at the loft-a-gogo!
I love the brick wall, in fact, when we rehabilitated our Victorian home, we added a room to the exterior and kept the brick wall, now inside!
Had to laugh at the loft-a-gogo!
I love the brick wall, in fact, when we rehabilitated our Victorian home, we added a room to the exterior and kept the brick wall, now inside!
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Well i'm on the fence on this building. I really need to add some weathering, or something to add more age. It needs to look older. I never build old, I build new and then age it. Maybe it just needs to be not as clean... hahaBrilliant contrast between your post and beam construction and the futuristic robots!
Had to laugh at the loft-a-gogo!
I love the brick wall, in fact, when we rehabilitated our Victorian home, we added a room to the exterior and kept the brick wall, now inside!
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Here's the brick wall pictures.
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Here's some progress shots of some of the assembly.
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Some goof off pictures.
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This guy was named B-11 but his arms were not suitable for positioning that would work for stop motion. I also wanted it to be less transparent. So I rebuilt him.
W.D. is hilarious!Great build shots.
... That's your call!
In the hypothetical, exposed timbers might have some colour variations, chinks, scratches, nail holes, even some splitting... The floor would likely be newer, or sanded and finished, especially in a repurposed space like this.
The look of the bricks really depends on whether they were 'recycled', having been exposed to the weather, the amount of blackening, spalling, and original colour variations, along with hasty mortar repairs that would also be in different colours. Our neighbourhood has many buildings with a reddish brick, likely sourced at the same factory, 150 to 100 years ago.
Here is a shot from the house next door, of a wall that abutts right on our inner city lot line... in a city that never had heavy industry, after over a hundred years. The brick is actually more of an orangy red, but my phone is over-compensating.
Compared to 'cleaned' brick in our front room... Probably of a similar vintage:
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Here's a little test video of a corner of the room, where I green screened the characters into the scene. No audio. 
Nice! They look laid back in their hangout!
In my past profession, one of my areas of expertise was masonry. The wall already has some characteristics of age: bricks that dark are usually old, sometimes called "high fired" meaning the kiln temperature was very high. I can't tell if the joints are dark because of the color of the mortar, or because they are partially empty from being originally "raked" or because they have lost mortar. Let's go with the latter. In that case, applying white or gray to them in different, but large areas would represent attempts at repointing (replacement of lost mortar. This should be sloppy and irregular to indicate partial repair at different times by people of varying but generally low skill. White to very light gray washes applied to the surface of bricks below the repairs would represent efflorescence from the repair, and a general but light wash of similar colors, especially on the lower walls would represent moisture migration through the wall.
If you can find a way to make the brick surfaces look chipped, that would also help.
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Hi guys! I kicked everyone out of the building and started gathering my dremel sanding and cutting bits. I also decided to take on the bricks. I plan to work in subtle layers. Wish me luck. I'll take pictures.
Awesome plan! We be rooting for ya!
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Ok, so today I worked on some of the timbers, and the ladder. I'm cutting cracks using a dremel and exacto blade. I used a fine tip sharpie to darken the cracks. I'm also using black charcoal sticks to add depth to the cracks and grays to make the wood look older. Now I need to do the rest of the timbers. haha! o.o
Great make over!
Fun fact... My understanding is that many of the early timber frame homes of New England were built by ships' carpenters!
Think of them as heavy timber hull ribs turned upside down...
Fun fact... My understanding is that many of the early timber frame homes of New England were built by ships' carpenters!
Think of them as heavy timber hull ribs turned upside down...
The cracks look great. Try using a mix of gray and brown stains on the wood. Gray and lighter brown at and near the ends of each piece.
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I finished adding the cracks on the lower level timbers. I also started to work on the floor. I tried to increase the darkness of the lines between the plywood sheets. The floor is worn out at the bottom of the ladder. Making some progress.
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Thanks! I would be too afraid to try stains because they can really change the appearance, and it'd be sort of irreversible. I'm finding these charcoal sticks are easier to control the look in layers.
The cracks look great. Try using a mix of gray and brown stains on the wood. Gray and lighter brown at and near the ends of each piece.
I was thinking of the Vallejo washes. With the exception of the black, it takes a lot of repeated application to get too dark. I should have said so, rather than using the word "stains." Regular wood stain will be too strong for this application.
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I worked on the floor and the bricks a bit. It was a really weird feeling to purposefully add spill stains and scratches to the floor. haha! On the bricks, my idea was to use only watered down raw sienna painted onto individual bricks. Luckily I found the perfect brush, it's the right width, and it's fairly rigid. After 2 days of detailing the timbers I was looking forward to doing some painting.
Nice! The robots will have to stop wearing their black soled street shoes!
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I didn't get much shop time today, but I was able to add some aging to one of the workbenches. I also added another layer to the bricks. I tried to tone down the brightest ones, and lighten the darkest ones. I'm starting to think about the mortar.
Honestly, that middle shot could be of a real loft/studio space in a converted 19th century factory!
