Titus Wells
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« Reply #150 on: July 09, 2009, 09:43:41 pm » |
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Sigh, never thought I'd wish we had walmart!
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« Reply #151 on: July 10, 2009, 03:31:50 am » |
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I have one of those I got it at the thrift shop for two dollars. That's what I will eventually get around to putting Agatha in.
Agatha is my currently designed but sadly not yet built, beheaded ... um well head. Would that be a bebodied head?
Anyway I have to get the size right and sculpt the features well, and install the mechanism that will make the eyes snap open to show the filmy dead stare of the otherwise peacefully dead beutiful youg girls head.
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« Reply #152 on: July 10, 2009, 03:33:46 am » |
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« Reply #153 on: July 10, 2009, 04:32:57 am » |
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What,what?  The jar for the price? The to be sculpted head? or just the idea of wiring a mechanism to open the eyes. note the use of sculpted repeatedly, in case you though I was getting actual heads for jars. |
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von Corax
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« Reply #154 on: July 10, 2009, 04:35:54 am » |
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What,what? The jar for the price? The to be sculpted head? or just the idea of wiring a mechanism to open the eyes. note the use of sculpted repeatedly, in case you though I was getting actual heads for jars. Perhaps it was your choice of name for the disembodied head? |
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« Reply #155 on: July 10, 2009, 05:17:59 am » |
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Uhm... You've hit the nail on the head Von Corax...  |
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« Reply #156 on: July 10, 2009, 05:37:49 pm » |
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This thread is making me jealous. I used to have a jar full of preserved fetal kittens that a friend gave me as a birthday present when we were in grade school. Wish I still had them.
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bluehairedfreak
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« Reply #157 on: July 13, 2009, 06:08:02 pm » |
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Hobby Lobby has some great jars. I picked up one the other week that had a very victorican look to it. It was there largest jar at about 2 1/2 to 3 feet tall and about 6 - 8" in diameter. They have them in 3 different sizes and come in three colors, clear, bronze and red. Haven't quite decided what to put in mine yet. Possibly some cyborg arm with one end having the hand and some flesh still attached and the rest exposed metal and gears. I am thinking a canibalized desk lamp might do the trick.
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Titus Wells
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« Reply #158 on: July 13, 2009, 06:11:42 pm » |
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Hobby Lobby has some great jars. I picked up one the other week that had a very victorican look to it. It was there largest jar at about 2 1/2 to 3 feet tall and about 6 - 8" in diameter. They have them in 3 different sizes and come in three colors, clear, bronze and red. Haven't quite decided what to put in mine yet. Possibly some cyborg arm with one end having the hand and some flesh still attached and the rest exposed metal and gears. I am thinking a canibalized desk lamp might do the trick.
That sounds ace. I can't find anything bigger than a dome clock dome at the moment. Not for reasonable money anyway. |
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« Reply #159 on: July 20, 2009, 10:45:43 pm » |
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If you're really into 'things in jars' (and I mean real bits of humans and animals not little man made monsters...cool though the pics here are)..you can always check out the Hunterian Society's Collection..open to the public and utterly fascinating.
My ladyfriend wants to take me to the Hunterian to see the glass jars, and in return I'm taking her to the Soane Museum- and to our mutual surprise theye're opposite each other in Lincolns Inn Fields! PS: so glad that your girlfriend didn't steal your heart away, only your kidney! |
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« Reply #160 on: November 08, 2009, 06:53:20 pm » |
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Reviving an old thread.
Would ispropyl alcohol added to tap water stop any nasties / algae growing.
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« Reply #161 on: November 08, 2009, 11:57:01 pm » |
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You can buy formalin on eBay, last I checked. That works well to preserve things. Just don't drink it.
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Sir Ninian Marsh
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« Reply #162 on: November 09, 2009, 02:29:06 pm » |
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You can buy formalin on eBay, last I checked. That works well to preserve things. Just don't drink it.
Thanks Burr, although I don't really want to preserve anything, I'm more interested in what won't effect scupley and acrylic paint. Plain old tap water, whilst been the easiest and least expensive medium will soon develop algae, and will need changing on a regular basis etc. I thought that ispropyl alcohol would gradually dissolve the paint or sculpey so I thought a mixture of the two might work. I suppose I'll just try it and see what happens. |
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« Reply #163 on: November 09, 2009, 06:20:40 pm » |
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You can buy formalin on eBay, last I checked. That works well to preserve things. Just don't drink it.
Thanks Burr, although I don't really want to preserve anything, I'm more interested in what won't effect scupley and acrylic paint.
Plain old tap water, whilst been the easiest and least expensive medium will soon develop algae, and will need changing on a regular basis etc.
I thought that ispropyl alcohol would gradually dissolve the paint or sculpey so I thought a mixture of the two might work.
I suppose I'll just try it and see what happens. The Iodine water-purification tablets I tried last year have precipitated a bit of brown 'gunk', but the water remains clear  |
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« Reply #164 on: November 09, 2009, 07:08:52 pm » |
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The League of STEAM have some thing in a jar that they carry around to their events; it even has a green glow and some bubbly goodness. Perhaps Mr. Potts or Lord Fogel would be kind enough to post a photo or two.
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« Reply #165 on: November 10, 2009, 03:40:09 pm » |
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If you're really into 'things in jars' (and I mean real bits of humans and animals not little man made monsters...cool though the pics here are)..you can always check out the Hunterian Society's Collection..open to the public and utterly fascinating.
My ladyfriend wants to take me to the Hunterian to see the glass jars, and in return I'm taking her to the Soane Museum- and to our mutual surprise theye're opposite each other in Lincolns Inn Fields! The Hunterian is fantastic. My wife has always wanted 'something in a jar' but I would rather visit them than 'adopt' them.  |
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« Reply #167 on: November 11, 2009, 08:43:15 pm » |
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Ha, great minds and all that! I was just thinking the other night when I made myself a coffee that the Douwe Egberts jar would be perfect for a specimen jar! |
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« Reply #168 on: December 20, 2009, 08:48:48 pm » |
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I don't think that jars always have to be filled with a undefined liquid. This is something i have for ages and collected it myself. Even my wife let it have me standing prominently on the cupboard so I believe it is estethic enough. The old museums about the wonders of nature also have this sort of collections. The bat was dead when i found it and it cost me a lot of time and patience to disect it. The bonecollector-jar is always under construction. when i find something it gets it's own place by the window. http://www.flickr.com/photos/photovoltaic1/4201109930/# |
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« Reply #169 on: December 23, 2009, 10:46:54 pm » |
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Not Steampunk per se, just cool: http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4062/4209003891_b166d608bd.jpghttp://farm5.static.flickr.com/4018/4209004003_882aa4ba98.jpgAnd most importantly: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2586/4209004135_995ba6cfb9.jpgThis is some crazy Korean moonshine that showed up in the tattoo parlor one day. In it are at least three preserve cobras, same idea as the worm in the tequila, more or less. We drank it all and I'm pretty sure it gave us serpent powers of some sort, though I'm yet to discover exactly what those are... |
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« Reply #170 on: January 28, 2010, 04:44:57 am » |
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OK finally a WIP pic. My thing is almost done. Had just done the "skin" by dipping the painted thing into a diluted latex solution right before I broke my finger. Unfortunately when I did a test fit in the jar, right after taking this picture, I discovered that my thing has gotten to big to fit in the jar. That didn't sound right but there it is. I had to break his little legs and re-bend the armature, re-sculpt the waist and re-bake it. That's all done, now to re-paint, re-skin and stick my thing in a jar! |
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« Reply #171 on: January 28, 2010, 05:54:28 am » |
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A cheap and easy preservative is simple distilled water with a campden tablet added as per volume. availble at any winemaking/brewing shop. or multiple sources online.
As an added prcaution I sanitize the vessel and object with "ONE STEP NO-RINSE CLEANSER" same suppliers usualy.
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« Reply #172 on: January 28, 2010, 07:02:10 am » |
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OK finally a WIP pic. My thing is almost done. Had just done the "skin" by dipping the painted thing into a diluted latex solution right before I broke my finger. Unfortunately when I did a test fit in the jar, right after taking this picture, I discovered that my thing has gotten to big to fit in the jar. That didn't sound right but there it is. I had to break his little legs and re-bend the armature, re-sculpt the waist and re-bake it. That's all done, now to re-paint, re-skin and stick my thing in a jar! My goodness!!!!! You mustn't get some nosy neighbor lurking trough your window. Then you have an awful lot to explain I think.  It looks gruesomely awesome. Heh-heh-heh (pulls his head between his shoulders while turning away and rubbing his hands in a evil doctor kind of way) |
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« Reply #173 on: May 10, 2010, 08:23:41 pm » |
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I've always wanted a thing in a jar, so today I went ahead and made some. The liquid is alcohol cleanser with a little bit of food colouring in it. The 'Things' are actually roots from my garden. (Dandelion and a flower root my dogs dug up.) I'm pretty happy with them for a first try and they are a nice decoration on my writing desk. (I have a nice set up in my shed that I am slowly 'gentrifying.'   |
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« Reply #174 on: May 12, 2010, 10:07:59 am » |
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They look the genuine thing! And amazingly simple made.
Well done!
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