i have build me my own, small vacuum tank :) nothing spectacular but essential to get better moulds and castings. i’ve cut me a strong, cylindric container witch is transparent and hermetric closed. next i fited a top cover where is the intake access for the pump. now i can finnaly force (nearly) all the air bubbles out of the silikon & cast resin! jipee less silly bubbles!!! blub,blub,blub…back off! :)
faceplate bone yard
ok…call me a nerd, but here is the real reason why i have bough a NES :) i didn’t want the whole chest, but the seller wouldn’t give me only the controllers, so i had to take the console too. today i have sacrifice one of the four pads to make me my own NES-mouse and i’m quite successful with my oldschool mouse.
last night i had my first battle with adobe’s illustrator ;) well, after try to draw some xbox 360 templates by hand with pencil, ruler and splines, what in fact i havn’t a way with, i tough about to do the task with illustrator cs2. nice programm and i think it is like as usual: practice makes perfect. as the sun was rises i have finished my templates (this arches are really tricky…it has still some rough edges). maybe you have cool design ideas…? if you wanna clean templates (.pdf/.ai/.png) to scribble your own xbox 360 artworks, you can send me a message.
if you want to do your own scalable vector graphics and you havn’t (500$ in pocket for) illustrator? here is a good open-source solution for osx, win, linux: inkscape.
my workflow thread for them, who interested in the process of such a molten stone 360 faceplate. i think it’s ok to keep my expirience for me alone, but it’s much more exiting to share it with you and get feedbacks from you :)
