Adam Savage here from my cave today's one day build comes from the upcoming film mortal engines Now what you might not know is that tested which means me and Joey right there behind the camera Recently got back from New Zealand where we were doing coverage of Mortal Engines We're doing coverage because the film was made in New Zealand By our friends at Weta and produced by Peter Jackson directed by Christian Rivers We talked to a whole bunch of the folks about the making of this film and we're really excited for you to see our coverage But today's one day build is I get to build a prop from the movie Now when you're making a film like this, you're doing world-building, right? That's a term of art They're building a brand new world and they really did build a wholly new vision of a kind of a post-apocalyptic World and it's a really cool vision But that also meant that the art department had to work overtime making every bit and bob and piece and part and parcel of that world fit together as a Cohesive whole and I really got to get into the weeds with them about how difficult that can be luckily enough production made available to me some of the 3d files for one of the hero props and while I was flying back from New Zealand Shaun Charlesworth here in San Francisco was furiously printing out those parts and They are here now and they are today's one day build This is a character in the film named Anna Fang's hero sidearm. It is a four barreled sidearm with tremendous Scrollwork that feels like it's referencing both Japanese sword making and also Damascus steel It looks almost like a piece of jewelry as much as it looks like a weapon I mean as you can see most of its 3d printed here. So this one they build us a lot of mechanical work just getting this thing up and running and then it's going to be a lot of painting and finishing work and that's going to be The most fun part because this sidearm does not have a standard weapon finish. It's much more ornate than that and I'm gonna have a lot of fun doing it. All right! Time to get started But these are all spaced evenly right as far as top and bottom so starting at the top right I got the diameter in case you need it. Mm-hmm Center the center So if you add if my math is, right, okay If you add point O 2 3 Going that way when you go down and then over a little bit that should be right for that position right there. Okay Okay, so mechanically I've got to get this part connected to this part and make that pretty seamless I've got to add in the trigger And the other trigger half now I'm going to make the trigger out of polished aluminum and paint it with yellow lacquer to make it look gold and I'm going to do the same treatment to the Hammers all four of which go in here They're not going to mechanically operate because I don't know the mechanics inside this thing I may someday make that work And then the other thing I'm going to do is when I look down these barrels, they don't look very realistic to me So I'm gonna add some of this K&S brass here To make them work because I think that looks really- it looks much more badass There we go, just my dirty finger is enough Great okay, cool All right, good, I'm pleased with that.
That's nice and solid. I think I will yeah, I Think I'm gonna add a screw right there and then I've got a really nice mechanical connection between everything All right, well we're moving along lest you think that "Oh, 3d printing! It makes all model making really easy" Let me point out to you that Shaun charlesworth spent 6 plus hours refining this model So it could be printed on his PLA printer and then it was 95 hours of printing for all of these pieces. Yeah Again, it's still a lot of work That's looking great. I'm very pleased with that You ever want to look at some really cool steampunk artifacts take a look at wheel lock- wheel lock pistols wheel lock pistols. The Victoria and Albert Museum in London has an Insane display of them that it's one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen Okay One of the things about tapping is when you're tapping plastics you don't often need a cutting fluid because You just don't, but, with PLAs like this that have a low melting temperature You definitely don't want to Tap- get your tap hot where it starts to melt the plastic. So I'm actually going to use a little bit of Machine oil on my tap just to make sure that the tapped holes here are really nice and clean That's great that feels like a nice solid amount of purchase I got on that. Gonna go from the other side I'm pleased with that. I'm gonna Clean that up with some disk Sanders. I gotta figure out what happens here because I really don't know Beautiful Hahaha, okay. So now I need to slice these guys now Time for priming. I've got to prime this and this Yeah, and then I've got to make these out of aluminum and I'll probably stack them all Right, and then I've got to dress the inside of that whatever that looks like This is one of those little tiny details that's worth taking care of The the SLA print didn't print these round holes perfectly round They're ever so slightly off and it's not the kind of thing you notice from even a foot or two away, but up close the lack of roundness really kind of ruins the Feel of these so I'm just opening them up another 20,000 to make them all unifrom and it will make a difference in the final product. They'll just make it feel that much more more better All right, great here we go Alright I'll let that dry and I'll make some of my aluminum parts So I need four hammers for this gun and I'm gonna make them out of aluminum I have stacked them in order to cut them out all as one piece And I have attached them with two 440 screws through the two holes that are in the originals Now what I'm then going to do is I'm going to paint This side of my aluminum in a blue lacquer called Dykem this is what's called marking fluid and it will you've seen me use it on tested before. This will allow me to Scribe very precise cutting lines onto my aluminum that I have as guides for exactly the shape I want to cut out As long as your scribe is sharp you should be able to get a very very tight reference line The trick is not letting your part get jostled one bit and I am very bad about that. My parts get jostled a lot Because I move too fast. I'm impatient There we go Okay Look at me doing some precise filing I got the courage to do this from one of my favorite YouTube channels Clickspring, Chris. I am always amazed by how much material you can take away with just a single pass with a file Thanks for giving me the the impetus to try this All right, I have Four hammers, I'm pretty pleased with the shape. I think I can get these to a pretty good polish That's what I'm going to try and do next All right, now I have to cut out the four pointed trigger and I'm going to do that using my scroll saw All right, that's the beginning of my trigger Doing pretty good here. Oh, yeah. Look at that I'm very pleased with that. I could spend a few more minutes getting rid of some of those scratches, but you know, and honestly I'm fine with them These bad boys, okay, so I want to drill a hole in that guy You know what these hammers remind me of Lobster Johnson They remind me of lobster Johnson. Yeah, first up these- this gun is going to get effectively a Pearlescent paint job first need to do a little bit of assembly on it and then I am going to Hit it with some chrome paint And that will make it look pretty pretty- actually you know what I can hit it with a chrome paint first So I hit this and this with the chrome paint and then as I add the triggers at a gold it should be really really beautiful after the chrome paint. I'm gonna give it a clear coat and that'll allow me to do Layering in of some pearlescent washes on top of this to get that look that- that they had in the film I'm really kind of looking forward to this one. My chrome is Moltow- Molotow chrome, liquid chrome It's the best thing I have ever found. It's pretty mind-blowing I'm mixing a bunch it tends to- it thins well with lacquer thinner and Per lacquer thinner if you're looking at it here, look at this. This is a molto coming right out of the package I know that's cool. But that's also very very thin and in general with lacquers I was taught that you kind of want to mix them almost one-to-one ideal lacquer Consistency is about the consistency of milk All right. Let's give this a shot Oh, yeah, look at that To be honest, that's almost a little garish to me But that's okay We're gonna take it down a little bit All right one down Okay, so now I'm trying something I have never tried before which is I want these parts that are polished silver They're polished aluminum, but they look like, you know a silver color. I want them to look gold So I'm gonna hit them with a clear lacquer I've got some guitar lacquer here, and I'm going to add some translucent pigment to it in the hopes that it'll get me a color that looks a little like gold I, honestly, am not sure. Let's start with the trigger since it's one part rather than four. See how we go I can definitely give it a try, right? Okay, so there's my gold lacquer That's pretty good Well, so this is a very green yellow and probably a reaction between the Slight full color of the aluminum But I actually- I pretty much dig that. That's great! All right, you stay don't you wait okay now we're gonna give these guys here I'm going to do assembly before I put the barrels in I want it contiguous before I start giving it the washes of pearlescent blue Because if you paint these things separately and then put them together, you'll see the joins. You'll see the difference This isn't going to be a perfectly uniform paint job. It's gonna try and feel like a piece of Victorian Hardware, yeah. All right. So here we go. I must say actually just looking at the the bright chrome it's it's actually too bright for me. I mean look good chrome It's really hard to do as a paint treatment So I'm ecstatic that one now exists, but it's actually it's so shiny It actually is like inhibiting me from being able to see details of this thing And that's problematic so I can't wait to start layering in the paint And start watching it come into it so Okay Excellent I'll try very light wash of pearlescent blue here see it may end up Well, I mean anything goes here. Ooh. Nice nice and subtle Okay, great All right, I've got a nice chrome undercoat a clear blue Pearlescent overcoat I am now going to start adding the rub and buff Yeah, you knew rub and buff was gonna be part of this. Joey behind the camera there and Norm just off camera We're both complaining that when they use rub and buff it gets everywhere. And if that happens to you, well, I want to show you How I'm gonna do this because here's the thing. I don't want rub and buff everywhere on this I actually wanted only on the high spots I want it to end up looking like a filigree and thus I'm going to seek to apply rub and buff as a very thin layer on only these proud premonitory Details across it now that's gonna be non-trivial But I hope I can achieve it. Really one of the keys is instead of a terry cloth I'm going to be using a much closer weave, a surgical scrub cloth and then the goal is get rub buff on it just like that but a nice thin layer and then start to Yeah Just like that See that? I'm not getting it any of the undersides. I'm only getting it on the high spots ah now some details finally starting to Be visible I want the brass to look a little less new especially underneath all this so I'm just going to Discolor it here. I'm just going to heat it up until I get it to be a slightly more interesting set of colors Rub and buff. Time for some buffing I'm gonna want to hit this with a wash And it's probably an oil wash, but I think I might have to clearcoat it first so let's give it a Haha. It's shaping up nicely. But let's give it a clear coat before I give it that oil wash. I really like the small model tank clear coat because it dries really fast All right, that's an eighth inch hole yeah, yeah All right, uh, oh my gosh, look at that. Look at how beautiful this thing is! As you'll see the other videos I got- I got to watch the first 25 minutes of mortal engines and it is a truly unique and beautiful Vision of a whole new world and this Anna Fang's hand cannon is emblematic of the amount of incredible Detail that Christian Rivers the director Peter Jackson as producer and all the incredible folks at Weta and Weta Digital Put into this world to make it feel like a cohesive whole I'm honored to have been able to build a small piece of that world here in the cave. Ah I'll see you guys next time
Nice build, but not a fan of the "gold" color. Throws the whole thing off.
Adam savage is arguably one of the most interesting people I have ever seen.
Shout outs to our boy Clickspring! Whoop whoop!
Reminds me of The Chaperone shotgun from Destiny.
When did these videos go from step-by-step, professional, instructions to film-student projects in editing? They look great, but I miss the explanations as to why and how.
Needs more bang bang.
Looking forward to the movie too.
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%203-m&q=Wheel%20lock%20pistols
Around six minutes in, he says to go google "Wheel lock pistols." I want to see what the numbers say tomorrow...
Wonderful! Another video from a great maker!