August
23
August
17
Tony Stark Would Approve
“This was a real launch of a life-sized duct-tape iron man at Leonardo’s Basement.” I just wish I could find more information about this online, so I can give credit where credit is due.
Leonardo’s Basement is a one-of-a-kind creative learning environment for kids of all ages to design and build from their imagination. Since 1998, Leonardo’s Basement has worked to inspire over 9,000 people to learn critical thinking & technical skills and to become enthusiastic, creative problem solvers.
August
10
Star Wars Fans Build 1:2 Scale Tie Fighter
Spooky over at Oddity Central wrote, “The Star Wars universe has millions of fans throughout the world, and some of them really invest a lot of time and money into their passion for the franchise. Case in point, a group of German Star Wars enthusiasts who created an almost life-size model of the iconic Tie Fighter spacecraft out of wood, steel and plastic.
“It took an army of hobbyists two years to complete, but the 1:2 scale Tie Fighter recently unveiled in Eichenzell, Germany, is a true DIY masterpiece. 20 Star Wars fans of different professions, from financial brokers to policemen and architects, put their blood and tears into this 5.30 m wide, 4.80 m long, 4.30 m high and 1.4 tons heavy model of the Galactic Empire’s starfighter. They worked in 12-meter-wide parking garage and spent an estimated €14,000 ($18,500) on necessary materials. The steel and aluminum frame alone cost €6,000 ($8,000), the wood was mostly provided for free, and the giant plastic ball that makes up the cockpit cost €1,900 ($2,500). Luckily, they had a couple of generous sponsors who took care of the bills.”
July
28
OSFest Cosplay
I just got back from OSFest Sci-Fi Convention in Omaha, Nebraska, and thought you all might enjoy seeing some of the cosplay from the con.
More after the break!
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July
27
To Infinity and Beyond!
Deviant Art user, DanLuVisiArt, has posted a series of his work called “Popped Culture.” I think his best one so far is his portrait of
<href=”http://danluvisiart.deviantart.com/art/To-Infinity-and-Beyond-371954685″ target=”_blank”>Buzz Lightyear from the “Toy Story” series.
Dan even has a story to go along with each portrait. Here is Buzz’s story:
July
21
Fabric Decoupage Star Trek Shoes
I recently made myself a pair of awesome Star Trek shoes by decoupaging fabric onto some canvas sneakers. I followed a tutorial that I can’t for the life of me find again, but I’ll see what I can remember. (if you happen to know where the tutorial is, please link us up in the Comments section below!)
What I thought was clever about the tutorial was that you made a pattern for the shoes using duct tape, instead of just cutting pieces of fabric willy-nilly to fit.
Materials:
- canvas shoes
- 1/2 yd fabric
- duct tape
- fabric Mod Podge
- small soft paintbrush
- scissors and/or X-acto knife
- Place a piece of duct tape along the side of the canvas shoe and trim the excess off with sharp pointy scissors or an X-acto knife until you have a master pattern piece. Repeat for other side of the shoe.
- Remove the duct tape from the shoe. Place on fabric and cut around the pattern piece.
- Brush on fabric Mod Podge to shoe and carefully apply fabric to shoe. Smooth out any wrinkles.
- Allow to dry 30 minutes to overnight (follow instructions on bottle)
- Apply a coat of Mod Podge over the fabric to seal. Let dry.
I got the fabric at Jo-Ann’s – they have several patterns of both Star Trek and Star Wars fabrics.
- More Star Trek crafts at GeekCrafts
- More decoupage crafts at GeekCrafts
- More tutorials at GeekCrafts