And it’s only about a month late for Christmas (yay me :/)
the final product
again, the model is for scale and just to class up the joint a bit.
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After all the intricate detail of the faces, it was just a matter of airbrushing some detail on the hat and shoulders aaaaand we’re done.
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I think the funniest part of this is how creepy the interim steps are
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Details, details, details
buttons for the boots
fancy schmancy belt buckle
Most of the belt parts drying by the fire.
Nutcracker body
Nutcracker body
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The title is pretty self explanatory
Pants and vest
Airbrushing to allow to some texture and buttons
Pants!
This was going to be , by far, the most complicated paint job on a project like this and by the end of it, made me wonder why I chose to be so rambunctious about things. I cracked open my never used airbrush (that I bought 2 years ago) for this project and there was a bit of getting used it again involved.
moslty finished legs
Lapels
painted body
The first (of many) buttons
The buttons were made much easier to cut out when my dad beveled the edges of a piece of pipe so I could just “punch” them out. the stars stuck on them were all cut out of bristol board with a pair of scissors , all seventy of them :/
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Thanks to a friend of mine, obtained huge sheets of cardboard for free ( Yay!) and I used this as the skin for these nutcrackers. but I had to paint some of the parts first. I put a model next to the painted parts to class the place up a bit.
Nutcracker boots
Nutcracker Gloves
Then the ” skinning” began
Nutcracker Legs
Nutcracker Bodies
they start to look more “human?!?”
After this, things got complicated…
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It starts to take shape now, the plywood pieces get stuck together in different sections
legs
The legs on these nut crackers differ from previous projects in that I tried to make them look more like two seperate legs rather than just one big stove pipe with feet on it. Continue reading
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My fancy circle cutting jig
once I got everything notched, I had to make shapes out of all of this. so I used my fancy circle cutting jig
I found out later, that I would have been way better off cutting them out with the band saw first and then make the notches. Hindsight is twenty/twenty and all that .
Circles!
Some assembly required
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This is my first project to post on my blog. They are large Nutcrackers made of wood and cardboard. They took waaay too long to build and I’d like to sell them if nothing else, to get them out of my site.
I’m going to break this up into several post so as not to get too unwieldy.
The First post shows cutting the wooden frames.
This is how it starts, with a sheet plywood left over from a previous project.
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