#astro makes

Durasteel looks surprisingly similar to aluminum. First coats of paint are going on!

Silver base - check, Lost in Space - check, Kids glue to mask silver for weathering - check, TIME TO SPRAY.

I’ve actually been working on attaching the thrusters semi-regularly, but most of it just hasn’t been very pic-worthy. Here’s a dry fit of all the parts. It’s a 1/4” threaded rod drilled and glued into the fuel tank (I gave that part of the tank a solid wood core), and then a shaped piece of hardwood dowel, the thruster, and then a 1/4” nut that gets covered by the end cap which is made of multiple layers of Sintra. Just glued it all together an hour ago, actually.

Rocket pack thrusters coming along. These will be molded and then cast out of urethane resin, so my master doesn’t have to be particularly strong, just needs to hold together long enough to get a good mold. I used hot glue as a temporary clamp and support while I was cutting the details out of each half of the ornament. Worked well! No building up the detail in that little cross thing.

Thanks! …I think I have comments/replies enabled. I hope so, otherwise this is kind of embarrassing.