I made a couple of small errors but dammit I did it. I bought it for my birthday almost a month ago, to see if I had the dexterity in my addled hands and brain, and the answer is, I do!
No art pictures on these, I just built a predesigned wooden model kit, no real creativity, just instructions and endless dexterity rolls.
Don’t know if it was intentional, but the way the sky blue really pops in the first photo really makes it seem like the scene is naturally lit by the sun
There’s strips of blue film resting at the top, just under the outer casing!
That’s craftsmanship.
Congratulations on creating this, you did great
Great job
That’s too cool, man. Too cool. Happy for you! I’m going to have to check these out for myself now!
Laser cut, printed wood pieces. Fun.
Slaps. Great job. I’ve been thinking about doing one of these for my library, was it a good project?
It was challenging, and I broke a few bits, but there were always replacement pieces of the ones most likely to break.
Respect, this is quite an achievement!
I got out of building models because I never figured out what to do with the results afterward… It was fun planning/building/painting stuff (I did warplanes mostly, integrated them into dioramas in the end) but once I was done they just took up space and became dust traps. Tried getting into Warhammer but never had enough interested friends to make it worthwhile…
So what I’m building up to is: What are you going to do with it now?
These things in particular are meant to serve as book shelf ends/spacers/ organizers to help keep things on your shelf upright. If your bookshelf is already full then I guess it wouldn’t have much use unless you remove objects.
This one looks pretty cool in that you can just put it on your bookshelf:
The first picture shows that it’s sitting on my board game shelf!
I’ve recently gotten into a war game called gaslands, uses hot wheels scale cars for units. Lots of fun customizing my team! And it’s really cheap unlike Warhammer minis.
Shit that looks really cool. My father in law has a collection of like +500 hot wheels, I bet he’d be down to give it a go.
I don’t know if this is explicitly I Am Legend inspired, but it definitely has a lot of it in here. It’s also doing its own thing. I like the style!
That’s pretty cool. What kit? Why’d you decide on that one?
It’s Haven Zero, and I saw it cause I’m a sucker for that kind of overgrown, peaceful, empty apocalyptic future. The dude down in his bunker there has all kinds of guns, but he doesn’t really need them, cause there’s only some cute deer up top.
Little did I know, I ended up picking up the most intricate kit that manufacturer made.
I tried to fix an error and snapped a piece I can replace, but it’d be six hours of work to dismantle the thing and put it back.
Apply a little water to the bendy part to soften it slightly. Add cyanoacrylate glue to the part. Press it to where it needs to go. Apply baking soda. Hold it and wait. Repeat the cyanoacrylate glue and baking soda applications to build up a string joint.
Oh! I should have mentioned, the part is replaceable. I have a spare. Sorry for leaving that part out. Just reed to get someone with working hands to help me out.
I have a replacement though.
I think I’ll have to concede and get a friend with a full suite of working hands and fingers to help me with the teardown. It’s quite demoralizing to see that.
My wife and I have done two of the book nook kits now. Trust me when I say making it an evening activity for two halves the difficulty.
The one you have done looks amazing - IMO the mistake work.
Damn, I like that. Got a link?
It’s Haven Zero by Tonecheer.
Wow they’ve got a lot of options, now I gotta decide which one I like best. X.x
I’m just bitter I broke one of the most fragile bits in the thing a moment ago, trying to correct a lighting problem.
Super glue? Or even Elmer’s might work.
It’s a bendy fragile piece. I’ve got a replacement, but even to get a missed sticker put in back there took me two chopsticks and a rigging system for them, cause my hands aren’t that accurate.
I’m gonna have to open the case, dismantle the second floor, swap out the part, and put it back in, and my hands aren’t up to the task, and neither is my mental state.
Maybe later. My wife has dyspraxia so she prolly won’t be good at this, but maybe a friend?
Doing this with chopsticks sounds abysmal ngl, I’d even suggest aquarium tweezers (longer than regular ones but not as thin) over chopsticks.
Good luck though! I’m sure you’ll work it out!
Wooow! This is great!
This is superb! I, too, love the postapocalyptic sceneries.
