She don't look like much but she'll fly...er sink.

Upper body strength, or lack thereof, will be what I remember most from this long week. I have sanded all the texture off of the walls and ceiling creating quite a racket and mess in the process. I have also finished, just this evening, spreading the last bit of joint compound to all the far reaches of the room high and low. The real mess comes next with the sanding down of that dried joint compound to make a nice flat surface to paint. Sanding it creates a fine and powdery dust and if you have ever done any drywalling before you know it coats EVERYTHING in the whole house. I am hoping to minimize that by hanging plastic over the door out and setting up a fan to exhaust outside through the window.

I'm with you though this is boring but hold on. The fun stuff is coming soon.
Next is painting.

Attack of the pink tentacle Part 2

Well the rivet making is done. I finished sanding them today. I now have over 600 of the little buggers waiting to get placed along the door frame and corners of the room to eventually help create the illusion of riveted steel. But first, and next on the to-do-list comes the messiest, and least fun step. All the walls are textured which has to be sanded off and smoothed up since "steel" isn't bumpy. Not looking forward to this part...

Pictured is the product I used to cast the rivets. It has a really low odor and a pot life of only 3 minutes, but it is ready to de-mold in only 10 minutes so its quick. The silicone was brand called Silpak. It is very tough and flexable and also had little odor as it cured. I got both from Van Dykes taxidermy which is owned by Cabelas so I got an employee price on it. That was the extent of my "research" The half-sphere masters are from Michaels Craft stores and come in a 4 pack. I got 48 of them for the mold

Attack of the pink tentacle!

Welcome friends, family and interested onlookers to the official kickoff of my Disney Nautilus inspired work space!

Work space for what you ask? Working R/C model ships, submarines and regular plastic model kits of anything that strikes my fancy. Thats for what. Instead of a bland 4 wall square room I am going for a little pizzaz, and neato factor. Please note the comments tag under every post here. Feel free to comment on anything anytime.

The pictures here represent the first steps in the process of making hundreds of 1 inch wide half-spheres to represent steel rivets which will eventually be attached to the walls and furniture for that authentic Victorian steamship look. The manly pink tentacle thing is the mold I made to cast these hundereds of rivets from wooden masters glued down, with the pink being a fortunate coincidence since it matches so well with my eyes.

Of course its also deadly as you can see as it attacks our heroine here...