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Epic Dust Bunny Found In Today's Tuesday Tear Down
Friday, 31 Jan. 2025
It's Not Dust, It's Soundproofing
Actually it is dust. About 16 years worth of it. Today's tear down yielded a bunch of bits as well as an epic amount of dust. Unfortunately I haven't come up with any uses for the dust. Maybe homemade Sculpt A Mold?
Innards
This thing was so ready for the tear down that the side panel just fell off when I moved it. Hard drives, heat sinks and a bunch of other doo dads that can respectfully be called greebles from now on lie within this old Dell. "Dude You're Getting A Dell" for your Poorhammer projects!
Bits Galore!
I'm already envisioning places where many of these parts can be used. Employing the real nitty gritty like hard drives, boards, power supply and heat sinks into any projects will require some imagination. Plastic parts are tried and true, however the aforementioned component parts lend themselves more to metal projects that will require soldering- like robots and mechs. Exploring techniques requiring new skill sets is one of the benefits of Poorhammering. The deeper you get into it, the more you learn and your creativity broadens. Bottom line is that it looks like I'll be learning how to solder in the upcoming weeks.
More To Come...
I made a dent, literally, in cleaning this behemoth out, but it looks like the cutting wheel on my Dremel will be needed to finish the job. In the meantime I was able to salvage more than I can use for the near term. I'll resume the tear down next Tuesday, making this my first Two Part Tuesday Tear Down. Come back next Tuesday to see the results. Also please help yourself to my other posts glorifying the world of Poorhammer scratch building.
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No Sporks Allowed
Friday, 31 Jan. 2025
Nothing invokes the spirit of the Grimdark engineering vibe quite as much as plastic forks. They’re pointy & the curvature screams gothic design. All the better if the forks were used to eat diner meatloaf with because then they fit squarely in the Poorhammer mold. The glue-up couldn't be easier by using The Army Painter brand CA Glue and ZAP Zip Kicker CA Accelerator
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The overall design is that of an almost gothic looking arch which of course fits right in with the 40K look. Undoubtedly they could be used when a medieval or sci fi vibe is needed too. The plastic material of the forks themselves will vary slightly from fork to fork, but I never met a fork yet that couldn't be cut with sprue snips or formed with a heat gun. And did I mention texture? Ooh baby look at the texture on those forks in the picture above. In summation let's hear it for the plastic fork and despite what my title insinuates, sporks are okay too when you need a shoulder pad or the like.
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TECH TOWER RUINS
Thursday, 16 Jan. 2025
The closest thing to instant gratification in the Poorhammer Terrain building world is these post apocalyptic tower constructs that use crappy CDs as a base. I haven't made one in a couple of weeks so I figure that it's time to crank one out. The shot above is one that I recently completed. They're really easy to make and are a great way to utilize the stuff that you have lying around. They can be finished in a couple of days because their compact size makes the painting steps go quickly.
Materials like corrugated cardboard and thin EVA foam craft sheets are your friend when making these dystopian towers. And of course all of the misfit greebles that are lying around your workbench.
They couldn't start out more simply, a bad CD like a Celine Dion CD, a toilet paper tube and the Epic Robo-Spider's proprietary Schmeg Shlop texturing compound*. The Schmeg Shlop is a reoccurring material in the construction of these terrain pieces.
*In an effort to achieve some semblance of brand continuity I will be using the term Proprietary Slathering Compound from now on.
Check back here on the Epic Robo-Spider's website for updated info on how to build these. How else are you going to get rid of those Celine Dion CDs before your friends see them. No offense to our Canadian friends across the northern border. She's a national treasure like the Edmonton Oilers after all.
This is the latest one in progress. I'm especially stoked to incorporate my new found love for polymer clay into this one. Stay tuned.