Monthly Archives: January 2013

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.

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

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  :/

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…

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 →

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