yuumi2891103
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Video Game Batmobile WIP
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Lol Katsu, well guys I see the finish line is near pretty much all the small details are done. I casted the 3 other top engine parts and made the afterburner bottom plate all that's left is to cut out the headlight area because I want to be able to hook up some LED's for the headlights and tail lights. By Sat or Sunday I should be molding the car have all the materials already so it won't be long.
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IEDBOUNTYHUNTER
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SteveNeill
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Ray this is just outstanding. When I first looked at it I thought this is CNC and I was going to move on. But then I looked again! Wow!
This is true scratch building boys and girls. The man has the touch!
Steve
This is true scratch building boys and girls. The man has the touch!
Steve
Thank you Steve, I used the original CNC Machines the Left and right hand LOL.
yuumi2891103
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Great !! That means Conventional Nerve(or Nerd) Control ? :behave
I want one of those!!
Oh I Can't wait to see it's finished !!
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3d-builder
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:lol Hub cap......yea right!
Amazing update it looks out of this world!!!!!!!:thumbsup
Amazing update it looks out of this world!!!!!!!:thumbsup
SteveNeill
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And there you go. No really, not to put down CNC. I wish I had access to a machine from time to time. And it takes a great deal of training and skill to work in 3D and print out a part. Lets not forget that.
But it also nice to see someone do the work old school and it looks the same.
So many builds are CNC and Auto CAD it jst makes a nice change.
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Oh don't get me wrong I would love access to that type of technology Steve let alone knowing how to use it I came from the age of the typewriter and failed that in school Lol, with the CNC you could have much more accurate work and that 3-D printing is pretty cool.
Okay boys and girls it's "D" do or die time just finished making the mold box I went low tech an old Nike shoe box, a roll of duct tape and a glue gun with glue sticks all from the 99 cent store and guess what the cheap crap worked! Lol I said why waste good styrene that could go towards a new project and expensive plexiglass to make a mold box. I used cardboard before and it was fine so all left on the car is sand down some putty I applied to seal up small gaps and give it the final coat of primer, tack it down and let the sweet liquid rubber flow! hope I bought enough. So the next update should be later tonight hopefully if I have enough silicone we will be looking at a mold of the Batmobile it's so exciting! Well at least to me:lol.
Crap, Crap, crap! Lol something told me to get an extra pint kit of silicone. I came up short you can see the top of the car crap!:angry the place where I buy my supplies is closed on Sundays so I'll have to wait Monday I'll go early so at least I can cast a body Monday night or tuesday morning.
SteveNeill
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Ray the one good thing (among others) is that silicone old sticks to itself. So You have no problem. Looks fantastic!
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yuumi2891103
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I've never done the casting and this is one of the the very important part of this build for me. I didn't know that the cardboard box works so fine.
Can't wait to see the next step.
Can't wait to see the next step.
Yeah Steve thank goodness for that or else it would have been $100 dollars flushed down the tubes Lol, and the mold had no leaks anywhere water tight cured nicely. And yeah Katsu there are so many different ways to make molds and materials that's a whole another class Lol, I learned a lot of molding methods from watching Steve's build on his Big E build , brushing on the silicone, using ultra cal and adding burlap and so forth.
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You know Al I heard that a while ago somewhere but l never looked into it and I do have some reject molds of the same type of silicone laaying around I could have used ARGGGG!!!!!!! Lol wish I had some type of grinder to cut them up into fine small pieces but thanks for reminding me of this! Gonna go cut up some Molds now Lol. And AL do I mix the chopped pieces in with the new silicone or do I just toss on top of the cured rubber in the mold?
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I kind of was thinking along the lines of that in terms of getting a void. I cut up 3 old molds in little pieces I have a tub of Country Crock buter almost full the car is almost covered so I will just add the rest to cover the roof line and may experiment with the cut up stuff on the bust.
Damn if it wasn't for bad luck I wouldn't have any luck at all , I went to Manhattan to get the silicone and Damn it they sold the crap out over the weekend for a class the store was giving they should order more for regular customers, pissed me off! Lol so the owner tells me I can use Dragon skin silicone on the Mold Star 15 and that it wll stick to it. It will just be two different colors which I don't care about as long as it adheres to the 1st silicone. I told him are you sure because? It's over $120 spent on this mold so I get home mix the stuff up which is translucent so you really need to mix for a few minutes to insure it's properely mixed, so I poured it and noticed it's a bit thicker than Mold Star 15 and then I noticed the thousands of bubbles slowly creeping upwards. I said crap! I hope none of the bubbles are on the top of the car the last portion that was sticking out, so We'll know in about 4 hours from now if it doesn't come out Kosher I'm gonna have to roll up to the guy who sold the silicone to me Bronx Boogie down style :angry Lol. I'm crossing my fingers it comes out okay.
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