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Lol I know all about the swearing at plastic! sometimes it helps but sometimes the plastic takes offence and decides to screw you over!

Thankfully, there wasn't a lot it could do when it was largely encased in putty and I was poking at it with a razor-sharp scalpel. I wasn't giving up first...

And woo hoo, page 20...

The power line is great, but exposed cables suck around close combat weapons.

 Theophony wrote:
The power line is great, but exposed cables suck around close combat weapons.

That is true, and I did consider not adding it. But, then I looked up at the Thunderhammers on the shelf and thought "why not".

And this is a strengthened organometallic, self-healing, polymer cable with Osmium-enriched Steel shielding coils surrounding it...

 Dr H wrote:

 Theophony wrote:
The power line is great, but exposed cables suck around close combat weapons.

That is true, and I did consider not adding it. But, then I looked up at the Thunderhammers on the shelf and thought "why not".

And this is a strengthened organometallic, self-healing, polymer cable with Osmium-enriched Steel shielding coils surrounding it...

Did you ever work as a writer for Star Trek? Because I can picture that coming out of Wesley crushers mouth right before I toss him out he aft airlock

Lol. No, I didn't. But, he deserves to be thrown out of an airlock for more reasons than that, he'd be whining all the way up to when his head explodes.

 nerdfest09 wrote:
Lol I know all about the swearing at plastic! sometimes it helps but sometimes the plastic takes offence and decides to screw you over!

Amen Bro!

Dr. H, are You able to cast those axes of yours someday?
I could have use of them , they looks already awesome

And anyway Theo, that there is pretty acceptable science compared to some of the things that were in Star Trek...
Organometallic polymers are possible, I know some people that were making them.
and those polymers were able to transfer electrons, so with a little development could be used for wires.
Self-healing polymers are possible today.
And Osmium is in the same group as Iron and so is very usable in an alloy.
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I just mashed them together a little.

 SelvaggioSaky wrote:

 nerdfest09 wrote:
Lol I know all about the swearing at plastic! sometimes it helps but sometimes the plastic takes offence and decides to screw you over!

Amen Bro!

Dr. H, are You able to cast those axes of yours someday?
I could have use of them , they looks already awesome

I don't currently have any casting materials, I'm afraid.
But I may do one day or I could make some entirely unique weapons for the right person.
Thanks.

Also, I've detailed the low-tech axe number 5.

The rivet does "go all the way through".
and again the grip is still to be done.

You could check with galorn to see if he would make copies. He might even be able to sell them on rivetzone.com you might be able to one day say that your sculpting skills allowed you to be on the same page as Dave's nuke cola machine

wow... nice details on both axes! the powerline specially looks very cool!

Theophony wrote:You could check with galorn to see if he would make copies. He might even be able to sell them on rivetzone.com you might be able to one day say that your sculpting skills allowed you to be on the same page as Dave's nuke cola machine

Dunno if my sculpting skills are that good. But maybe I'll give him a shout when I've finished them.

Viktor von Domm wrote:wow... nice details on both axes! the powerline specially looks very cool!

Thanks Vik.
That's a sausage of putty, a comb and a flat surface. Some turn out better than others, but practice is making them better.

a comb good enough for a tune or two... and for combing my hair it is absolete...(verging on the bald) so making tubes that way seems rather appropriate

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
a comb good enough for a tune or two... and for combing my hair it is absolete...(verging on the bald) so making tubes that way seems rather appropriate

Yep, and cheaper than a tube tool...

Well I've powered up axe 6.3.
I went for battery powered to differentiate it from 1.2.
Also notice the Space Marine addition to the handle, it was meant to dangle free, but the glue had other ideas...

Let me know what you think.

Looks good, but maybe a couple of little balls of putty, on the smaller cables on the blade, to keep them there, should look even better

Oh yeah, contact points. I'm with you there. Got a couple of those small wires to add the axe #1.2 and then when I next have the putty out I'll do that.

Thanks SS.

In other news, I popped into the (not so) local ModelZone and picked up some more milliput and some plasticard as it was all 30% off. Could have spent a fortune in there, but it would have just been buying things for the sake of buying things and I can't afford to do that at the moment.

Wise buying choice mate.

I like the powerlines, but not the battery, but I'm sure you'll pull it off with your paintjob , just not sold on he current look.

 Theophony wrote:
I like the powerlines, but not the battery, but I'm sure you'll pull it off with your paintjob , just not sold on he current look.

Interesting. What don't you like about it?
I am thinking of adding a few more details to the battery, But I did look specifically for an odd shape for it rather than a cube or cylinder.

Could have spent a fortune in there, but it would have just been buying things for the sake of buying things and I can't afford to do that at the moment.

ha... so you´re not a hoarder yet^^...

and those axes look very good... tho one minor point still needs to get fixed... batteries look like pustules... not really what you are aiming for... so a bit f filing is in order...make them a bit more fabricated looking instead of just grown from the handle like they look now...

 Viktor von Domm wrote:

Could have spent a fortune in there, but it would have just been buying things for the sake of buying things and I can't afford to do that at the moment.

ha... so you´re not a hoarder yet^^...

Well there's two sides to a hoarder; Collecting more things that you don't need and Not throwing away things that you should not need any more. I'll be the latter kind. At least until I have some money coming in that I can burn on things. If I had had the money, I would have told them that they could have shut up shop as I would take the lot...

and those axes look very good... tho one minor point still needs to get fixed... batteries look like pustules... not really what you are aiming for... so a bit f filing is in order...make them a bit more fabricated looking instead of just grown from the handle like they look now...

Ah, I see. It will look more fabricated and less organic in time. Thanks Vik.

 Dr H wrote:

 Theophony wrote:
I like the powerlines, but not the battery, but I'm sure you'll pull it off with your paintjob , just not sold on he current look.

Interesting. What don't you like about it?
I am thinking of adding a few more details to the battery, But I did look specifically for an odd shape for it rather than a cube or cylinder.

i think it's a combination of odd shape and the size of it relative to the axe head. But keep going, you have a vision of it in your noggin, and I'm sure you will pull it off....the vision, don't pull off your head you'll get messy stuff all over.

I see. I could probably make up some excuses for the shape, but in reality I decided to add a battery pack instead of a power line and had a rummage for something to use.

I looked at regular shapes (and even put a piece of cylindrical sprue to one side) and then came across some beads.

It nearly had a fullerene / football (that's soccer to those of you with your own football) shape, but that was even bigger than what I ended up using (which is only half a bead).

So there wasn't much of a vision involved, just an idea and a pile of odd shapes...

I will poke it later and see what happens...the axe, not my head...

 Dr H wrote:

So there wasn't much of a vision involved, just an idea and a pile of odd shapes...

I will poke it later and see what happens...the axe, not my head...

That's how most of my current tuff starts out. I see a bit that I have and say....that would be a neat xxxxxxxx.

 Theophony wrote:

 Dr H wrote:

So there wasn't much of a vision involved, just an idea and a pile of odd shapes...

I will poke it later and see what happens...the axe, not my head...

That's how most of my current tuff starts out. I see a bit that I have and say....that would be a neat xxxxxxxx.

Yeah, I tend to think that and then file that bit away in a pot/box/bag for future use, make a note of any ideas and then carry on with the project at hand...(rather that start a new project like quite a few people around here that shall remain nameless... )

Then later, when I'm doing something and think "I need a xxxxx" I then go to the particular pot/box/bag of suitably sized objects (yes, not only do I hoard random junk, I classify it by size/shape) and pull out a few bits to see what fits best.

Well there's two sides to a hoarder; Collecting more things that you don't need and Not throwing away things that you should not need any more

ohoh... seems i am the odd end at both ends...:(
lol...

but that not throwing away just saved my current work...you´ll see later on^^

 Viktor von Domm wrote:

but that not throwing away just saved my current work...you´ll see later on^^

You see, it's times like that, that confirms that you are right to think "I'm going to keep that, it might be useful in the future".
People that throw stuff away never get that feeling...

I am eagle-ly (geddit ) awaiting your update.

That pun it hurt my brain... Its ok.. i am returning now.. I live!

Oh axes! I love me a good Axe and those are some good axes.

 cormadepanda wrote:
That pun it hurt my brain... Its ok.. i am returning now.. I live!

Oh axes! I love me a good Axe and those are some good axes.

Ha ha, hope it didn't hurt too much.

Thanks Comrade.

Ok people. A bit more fiddling with 6.3.
Whatever plastic this bead is made of, it's tough stuff. However...

I've flattened the sides of the battery, but you won't see that from these pictures.
I tried to cut a groove in the top, that didn't really work (just put a slight dip in it) so I may just flatten the top as well.
I've added some rectangles to the front and sides, where the wires attach, to tidy that up and square it off.
I've added a large round dial/gauge/thing to the right hand side.
And I've added a small round dial/gauge/button/thing in a recess (drilled) on the left hand side.

As it turns out, it's quite difficult to get a good picture of a white circle in a yellow dip in a yellow blob (to the extent that you could barely tell there was anything white there at all, never mind a recessed button/dial/gauge/thing), so I slapped on some primer to make it easier to see with the upshot of the battery not being so yellow and therefore not looking like a carbuncle any more.



I know it doesn't really make it any smaller, but this battery is doing the job of the Space Marine backpack in powering it, so it is a marvel of miniaturisation really.

Looking better?

it looks so much better with that extra bit of detail added to it