hey tested Adam here and norm here and we are doing a one-day build we're gonna
do one together because we're going to build a garage kit and I happened to
have two of them like kit that we're building is this the Iron Giant screw
kit yeah it's a bolt that's in the movie I'm in one of our favorite movies
there's no spoiling it the Iron Giant falls apart at one point and this bolt
is the kids attachment to him and it has a special significance in the epilogue
yeah and when you got this kit because this is an old kits been sitting up in
your attic for a little bit it has in fact you can see my son labeled it on
the side because this sat upstairs in the loft I've got this whole shelf of
nothing but kits and unbuilt things that I've had and I've had this one sitting
up there for five years it was made by a user on the rough cut prop forum and
they actually design lists using some schematics found online and in situ
modeled it in 3d and Sketchup had it 3d printed well this is a great example of
enthusiasts grabbing what they can to grab to make some amazing props so there
was a schematic made for production of how big this screw was and the RPF user
took it imported the drawings into Sketchup because he had planned views
elevations and constructed this 3d printed it cast it into multiple parts
including an electronics kit with lights and a little thing that goes beep beep
beep beep yeah awesome it's very cool I've made a few modifications and I'm
going to continue making some other modifications in some places he's got
this thing glued together and I prefer press fits and positive mechanical
connections but the assembly yeah and also the electronics work that all
happens after some finishing first cuz you know what it till not look like a
cast piece of resin exactly so what I'm first going to do is coat these in a
because they're going to end up being silver ish like bolt color I'm going to
give them a red oxide primer I think if I have it I might not now because we
have two kits we can actually take two which is like we did last time with the
Cosmo kid I think you have a specific idea in your head of how you would like
your bolt to look well the cartoon because it's an animated movie
many people finish this as being very cartoonish where it's very specifically
2-tone as it was in the in the in the movie like this mm-hmm
I am going to make it look a little more bolt like I'm going to make it look a
little more realistic as if it's been ported Roger Rabbit style into reality
I'm going to try to go straight forward with the cartoon fish all right and I'll
help you help me with that so first step primer first step is primer while I'm
working on the primer will you work on the electronics absolutely okay so let
me just explain here you've got yeah that is it could not be a simpler
diagram we don't have any breadboard in this you're going to be wiring soldering
directly to the chip all right so gentle that's right I have tons of heat-shrink
but I think we want to you know I'm thinking that we want to trim these
leads way down and put some heat shrink on and actually color code the positive
lead I've got some really fine I've got some really fine wire back here mm-hmm
I've got some fine wire back there so if you would start getting the electronics
together and make sure that it works with the batteries and stuff
I'll do the priming and mechanical engineering for getting these things
assembled all right sorry okay
my wire strippers yep right you know shove those down in when we put this
thing on to there no the switch so the speaker can live up
top here it doesn't get the right
I am painting my bolt with rubbin buff which is as I've used it before a
metallic wax product that gives a very very realistic finish for metal and
because it's a wax it should mix too much with the weathering paint that I
want to put on this later so all in all it should be the ideal coating I'm
putting it down pretty rough again because well it's going to be a rough
and tumble kind of paint job okay Adam where we right now you have a little bit
of a rough rumba rumba faun I do I have the switch hooked up we've got the first
chip hooked in here so I'm ready to test for it when I test the circuit we match
the diagram battery which is a couple years old I'm getting four and a half
volts out of the battery stack so okay hey there goes that's only one of the
LEDs that's fine right I've only I'm the only one I've hooked
up but that's great that's awesome excellent this is all good it's a good
sign give me a high five all right cool so I know it's a matter of just connect
yep disconnecting now it's off and the next step is to get the other LEDs and
everything wired together because it all needs to fit yeah in time this just
little tiny thing okay so your battery goes inside and then it's going to be
the chip and then the speaker and then the LEDs on top right awesome okay I'm
going to get some work during the exact same thing on my chip
hey norm you got lights yep and sound
yep it's all working okay so now I'm going to turn it back off
now I've got to get these all soldered to each other
oh sweet okay so all right and it looks pretty
all right let's explain to people how the circuit works yeah you have a finish
bolt electronics wise yeah so at the tip of the bolt that's where the switch is
yep switch it so activates it's a not a momentary it's an on-off push-button
switch okay yep and then inside the chef is then the battery three stack of
button batteries watch batteries followed by the the chip chip that
creates the sound in the light it's a timer and the chip connects to speaker
mm-hmm and also the three LEDs you have wires all the way back to the switch it
does and and then so when you press it you get home and begin yes dude whoa
it's awesome so I think you're ready to move on to the next phase of your
finishing and painting I have to put in now I have some lenses to put in over
these awesome and then I'm gonna go back on my end
yeah I am adding some final weathering I am putting some dirt in the interstices
of my of my Iron Giant screw here now you're giving any washes or there are
enough of the yeah no it's exactly what I'm doing the
rubbin buff is a wax and so it does nicely when you add acrylic to it and
then scrub the acrylic back off you see I end up with I end up with dirt in the
corners and it looks nice and nice and genuine like it's telling a story just
the way I like it you know Frank tells us that there's a phrase flood browning
it up browning at layers of dirt and different shades of brown yes exactly
I've got burnt umber right here to add some rust spots later
the finished I think well done let's show the people so I have made my Iron
Giant bolt look as if it has been sitting outside the Iron Giant for a
fair bit of time so it is weathered and beat-up I like it looking actually
metallic it it is an object that says to me what the hell was that
so it goes on my shelf in ten years from now so goes but there's that and I point
out is for mine John oh nice like that's really cool that's very pretty
I'm totally psyched that is a beautiful little kit yeah well done
I've got like 40 more up there oh hopefully we'll be able to do more
naturally one day build the day's finish but I'm gonna wrap mine up at least get
the electronics done yeah and then we'll finish painting and show the difference
between the painted your realistic version and the cartoonish version
absolutely we'll see you guys in a minute and we're done we're done we each
have a ball we each have bolt from the Iron Giant
I've gone with the semi realistic look you've gone with the cartoon look it
looks beautiful very flat colors super simple get so it's all just primer
yes art gray spread that's metal like right back on top
are you finished with it I still think I can do a little more so maybe a little
more airbrush and give some definition I think that's a great idea
I love how yours looks realistic and dirty yeah trying to think of like what
would dirt look like in a cartoon format in a cartoon format I think a little
airbrushing of black in some of the details very subtle you might not even
register it when you look at it but it'll bring it in - starker relief and
make it feel a little more weirdly 3-dimensional even though it is already
three-dimensional and it's a beautiful table prop and prop rip from amazing
cartoon yes let's turn them on got to synchronize the beeps which how they'll
found each other three - oh hold it one it's a beautiful child this is really
fun thank you so much Adam from parentless with us and you love garage
kit I know you have a huge backlog but you're also still looking
for more I do I have probably about 30 different garage kits upstairs and we're
going to continue to do them I it's one of my favorite things we haven't done
very many of them as one day builds but they'll definitely be more and yeah I'm
always on the hunt for cool garage kits so if you know of a cool one or if
you're making one yourself send us a line should us line or post a comment
below otherwise we'll see you next time thanks guys