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 shasolenzabi wrote:
Just have to "flesh" it out a bit with the putty and voila~! toilet

Yes indeed. Tomorrows job.

 Dr H wrote:

 shasolenzabi wrote:
Just have to "flesh" it out a bit with the putty and voila~! toilet

Yes indeed. Tomorrows job.

Sounds like a plan.

Yes, that is a post apocalyptic throne! I think the dimensions are very good!

AMAZING!!! I never realized how complex of a shape a toilet is!!

Looks like you got the toilet skeleton. Nice to see what you sculpt in it.. maybe a floater!

Anyways, enough of the feces. I must get ready to go apply to internships. So hard to talk about hobby related information on the job when the most recent project you have seen is a toilet.

A well done and pleasant looking one to be added.

 cormadepanda wrote:
. I must get ready to go apply to internships. So hard to talk about hobby related information on the job when the most recent project you have seen is a toilet.

LOL.. Yeah I probably pass on that subject.

Nice progress mate! Interested to see how the bowl takes shape.

The right thing for a wastelander to use in a pinch

Viktor von Domm wrote:Yes, that is a post apocalyptic throne! I think the dimensions are very good!

shasolenzabi wrote:The right thing for a wastelander to use in a pinch

dsteingass wrote:AMAZING!!! I never realized how complex of a shape a toilet is!!

Thank you gents (see what I did there?).
Yeah, it's amazing how something that you consider so simple and everyday is actually very complex in it's design when you look close enough.

cormadepanda wrote:Looks like you got the toilet skeleton. Nice to see what you sculpt in it.. maybe a floater!

Anyways, enough of the feces. I must get ready to go apply to internships. So hard to talk about hobby related information on the job when the most recent project you have seen is a toilet.

A well done and pleasant looking one to be added.

Thanks and lol, I see what you did there.
I'm thinking of leaving the bowl as empty as possible to give people room to add water effects and their own floaters (or empty if they so choose).

Good luck with your applications and...

Solar_lion wrote:LOL.. Yeah I probably pass on that subject.

...Yeah, probably best not to get into explaining about why someone is sculpting a toilet...

Casey's Law wrote:Nice progress mate! Interested to see how the bowl takes shape.

Thanks Casey. See below...

So the first wave of putty has been performed;

I stopped before completion for a couple of reasons, One being that I used up the putty that I had mixed.
I could have easily mixed up some more immediately and carried on, but one of the toilets seats had apparently not been fully sealed with pva and became quite soft with all the water I was splashing about and I bent the skeleton support for the other seat.
So I straightened them both, added putty in places that would strengthen them and I'll let that set and finish them off next time.

In other news, the silicone and resin turned up today. So that was nice and fast.
Still waiting on the ..."not-instant mold" (edit: Oyumaru), but then that is coming from Hong Kong so can't expect that to be quick...

Looking very promising, excellent work.

Toilets, more complex than folks take time to think about!

Thanks Cam.

Shas, I'm going to have to sig that...

Enough said .

lol. Thank you Theo.

LOL, Theo your mind is an amazing place, never change.

Awesome shape! YES, please leave the bowl empty

So Dr H, are you going to have a BOGOF deal on these...



I'll get my coat...

as an FYI Birch coffee stirrers make for easy scale wooden planking. also the actual wood grain is indeed picked up by RTV sillicon.

 Galorn wrote:
as an FYI Birch coffee stirrers make for easy scale wooden planking. also the actual wood grain is indeed picked up by RTV sillicon.

How dare you post Hersey like this in the spruemeister's blog blood for the blood dog woof!

I vote for empty toilet as well, but make it look like the water (and other various substances) evaporated over a long period time and the grunge / grime has bonded w/ the ceramic on a molecular level. Yuk.

Well, you can do that with paint. You don't want texture in the bowl for casting....

So he must make smooth porcelain?

Ruglud: lol. Maybe I will in certain circumstances.

Galorn wrote:as an FYI Birch coffee stirrers make for easy scale wooden planking. also the actual wood grain is indeed picked up by RTV sillicon.

Ta. Good to know that texture like that can be picked up.

No worries Theo, variety is the key. I may use things like that for alternatives.

dsteingass wrote:Awesome shape! YES, please leave the bowl empty

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:I vote for empty toilet as well, but make it look like the water (and other various substances) evaporated over a long period time and the grunge / grime has bonded w/ the ceramic on a molecular level. Yuk.

dsteingass wrote:Well, you can do that with paint. You don't want texture in the bowl for casting....

Yarp. Have to leave options for the customer.

Toilet progress.
The colour balance is a bit off on a couple of the pictures but as these are just plain putty I didn't bother changing them.

There is still more work that needs doing on these, they will look better once I've finished with them.

Turns out the cylinder of card I used for the FO bog was not really central to the bowl and so I had to fill it in and will carve a hole later. The hole in the other bog will also receive some attention.
Also need to add some more putty for the top of the rim on the FO bog as the putty was going off by the time I got to it and it wasn't sticking.
A little more putty may be needed here and there to alter the shape a little and some carving and sanding will be required as well.

But progress has happened.
I also added a piece of card on the top of the cistern to look like a lid as trying to carve out the inside and adding a float didn't look possible in such a small piece of sprue. I may however make a hollow cistern in the future.
It does raise the question of where all the lids have gone in the capital wasteland? or do toilets in America not have them anyway


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 cormadepanda wrote:
So he must make smooth porcelain?

Smooth is the aim indeed.

The second batch of putty looks great! nice bowls.

I'm pretty sure a turd would break down after 200 years, but the cast ceramic would not. It'll break or crumble, but the enameled surface would still be smooth.

Thanks Comrade. Still quite rough and wonky at the moment, but that will be solved.

It doesn't have to be a 200 year old present that someone has left in there though, could have been a raider... or a supermutant (you wouldn't want to follow one of them into the bathroom)...

No I don't suppose you would!

NEVER do a "take all" on a gore bag

Just pick the ammo/caps/weapons leave the mutilated body parts in the bag

Yeah those gore bags. I just went through a load of them in the Chryslus Building, you know the one that's full of supermutants... I actually haven't played FO3 for long enough that I don't remember where things are or what they are when I find them. So it was a surprise when I walked in there at level 4...

Anyway, I haven't touched the toilets today. Done a little commission painting and went shopping.

But I can show you some boxes... well some walls of boxes that will eventually join up with other walls to make boxes...

The open box at the top is the box I've already shown you and is there for scale. The lid that was on it is on the right.

The little side below that is new-ish (and needs a little tidying looking at that picture). It was actually a side that was too small for the original box and has a friend that just needs the edges added.

The tall side in the middle was what I showed behind the toilet earlier, but the other one with the cross bar is new. Both of those need a second side built to match (may do the cross the other way for variety) and these will be ready to begin box casting... once I'm up a running.

That's all for now.

those boxes look as if they are straight from a WHFB kit sprue... awesome looking detail!

as for the toilets... looking very good... tho i have to say the classic one is my favorite... the left one pales out compared to the right one...