Arts and Crafts with SE++ (or: Sheri's Epic Yarn)

OmegaTofuNinja

#pipe wrote: »

yeah they're only like 12 bucks here now finally. They were super expensive for the longest time

Hey tofu your last facebook profile photo gave me an idea

Take a nerf Raider



saw off the foregrip handle and glue on an Element (without the scope or light)



Bam. Double gun.

you're insane

one time I hollowed out the laser sight thing on the nitefinder and stuck a secret shot in it and it was awesome

e: or a pocket shot, it's the tiny one shot thing that fits in your pocket

Sheri

Theidar wrote: »

Adorable baby in adorable caps:

Hey now

You didn't make those

#pipe

yeah but he made the kid

procreation is a kind of craft

pooka

MM, you might have a community arts center in your town, and they often have ceramics/pottery programs. they'll either have classes or charge you for studio time, and sometimes they'll sell you clay. if not, you can go in with others on bulk clay bodies (it's fairly affordable for one person, but you don't want it to dry out and go to waste.) same deal with supply stores. apparently museums also offer art classes, but i haven't pursued that. considering how satisfying it is to art, it can be surprisingly cheap if you look in the right places.

i am working on one of these for my dad, in orange and blue. as a Christmas present. and i've never tried stranded (aka Fair Isle) knitting before. wheeeeee! on the upside, it's one of two presents i have left to make, so i should be set.

Metzger Meister

i was taking a ceramics class at my community college. i wonder if my professor would let me use the kiln if i'm not a student... of course i could just come back for that one ceramics class and nothing else next semester. i think the registration deadline is almost up...

MereHappenstance

After looking at nerf modifications, I'm seriously tempted to start doing some of my own.

OmegaTofuNinja

modding is fun stuff, we used to have pretty large nerf wars all of the time during my freshman year so it was kind of a necessity

Polecat

trains are almost done... not gonna have the full thing ready for christmas... but who cares no one looks at them anyways

Sheri

#pipe wrote: »

yeah but he made the kid

procreation is a kind of craft

I believe I already covered this in the 8th post

Theidar

I totally crafted those pictures with my camera too.

#pipe

he's got you there

Theidar

I must take no credit for the awesome hats though.

Sheri

I'm going to craft my fist in your face, pipe

#pipe

pooka

i bought some yarn (and pattern mags) at sweet post-Christmas discounts, but i'm really here to brag that my sister had her baby, a week and a day after her due date. hooray! i'll get to see her and meet my niece in about a week.

Saint

I made a shirt with bleach and a sharpie. It was still wet from the washing machine when I took pics but I thought it was great

Metzger Meister

i like those shirts. i have seen some fucking crazy ones.

MereHappenstance

So, the final covering for my space marine costume will either be polystyrene sheets molded over the shape, or I am considering pepakura.

Has anyone worked with either? Any tips on what I should use?

I considered making liquid plastic using acetone and styrofoam, but I don't want to risk dying.

#pipe

foam rubber is really cheap, easy to carve, light and tough.

harder to paint, but you can work something out.

Metzger Meister

well, he could always put something over the foam rubber, like fabric

Saint

Got an idea about the bleach shirts. I'm going to use some of my Christmas money to buy a shitload of black t-shirts wholesale, line them up down the street, do a running pour on all of them, then slowly donate all the shirts to the local thrift stores and see how many hipsters I spot wearing them.

Sheri

That is quite the social experiment

Saint

Then sell the design to American Apparel

MereHappenstance

#pipe wrote: »

foam rubber is really cheap, easy to carve, light and tough.

harder to paint, but you can work something out.

That might be something to check out. If I did use it, I'm sure I could just gesso over the top and then spray paint that. Wouldn't be too hard to make it look smooth.

Sheri

Saint is rockin' his Sheri-hat in tinychat :^:

Usagi

Dear crafters,

Are you still interested in a craft swap?

Craftily,
Moi

Flay

I just started getting in to papercraft recently, but I've already given a fair few of them away as Christmas gifts. Here's what I still have, pretty much all of them are botched in one way or another.

George Fornby Grill

paper. craft. corgi.

Taya

What kind of paper did you use, Flay?

plufim

My fiance likes rubber ducks, and lately we'd been talking about which mr men/little miss character we are closest to. So I used some warhammer paints to make these for christmas:

I'm pretty terrible with the black lines, not used to painting thin lines. But the paint went on pretty well!

edit: also drew/painted her this, which just goes to prove I need serious practice with watercolours.

MereHappenstance

Usagi wrote: »

Dear crafters,

Are you still interested in a craft swap?

Craftily,
Moi

Do painted wh40k figurines count? If so, I'd totally be down for this.

Sheri

Usagi wrote: »

Dear crafters,

Are you still interested in a craft swap?

Craftily,
Moi

Yo

Flay

George Fornby Grill wrote: »

paper. craft. corgi.

Here's the pattern I used.

Taya wrote: »

What kind of paper did you use, Flay?

I printed them at work to save on colour ink, so regular printer paper I guess? Although It seems like it's a bit glossier than the regular kind. I couldn't tell you what printer it is either.

Usagi

MereHappenstance wrote: »

Usagi wrote: »

Dear crafters,

Are you still interested in a craft swap?

Craftily,
Moi

Do painted wh40k figurines count? If so, I'd totally be down for this.

Hecks yes

Startin a list:

Usagi
MereHappenstance
Sheri

Metzger Meister

i totally would, but i have no way to continue making ceramics since i dropped out

pooka

i like the idea of this, but i might have logistical issues.

what kind of swap are you thinking?

Usagi

Honestly, I'm not sure yet

I've never done one before and just wanted to get a feel and see if enough people were interested!

#pipe

OH SHIT

I forgot to post my robot head!

So I went to a masquerade ball for new years, and I wanted a mask that was... unique. So a buddy and I got together and designed and built ourselves a couple of robot heads out of cardboard and paper.

they turned out pretty amazingly.

My buddy's is raw card and mine's painted with spray paint. Glasses are removable and have real lenses. hair/beard/sideburns is photocopied black paper. About 8 hours work for both.

Metzger Meister

haha

those are rad, pipe.

Sheri

pooka wrote: »

i like the idea of this, but i might have logistical issues.

what kind of swap are you thinking?

I was thinking the kind where you swap stuff