WH40K Purity Seals

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A gift for a good friend, the seals were printed on my Form2, sanded, airbrushed, and given a dirtying pass with some muddy black paint. The flag of the seal was made from a disused work shirt with an iron-on print then stained with coffee. This was then hot-glued onto the back of the seal itself. May make some more of these in the future, they were fun to make.

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WW2 Captain America Shield

To be updated with more info and photos, but this is about a WW2 Captain America ‘heater shield’.

My good friend Jack asked about making one for his Captain America cosplay / airsoft outfit, and I figured “why not?”, and went about it. Jack helped source some great reference material (mental note, dig that up and link it here).

I had just enough leftover 1/8″ thick aluminum sheet metal at work that I was able to CNC machine out the shield shape. The grade of aluminum (I want to recall 6061) proved too difficult to roll / bend by hand, even with myself and another friend literally leaning over each half. I ended up getting the sheet metal shop that my work does business with to put it through a manual roller which proved to do the trick.

Then came the longest part to tackle – the design. We looked into paint, powdercoat (whole shield’s got a base coat of white powdercoat), ‘dry’ cerakote, wet cerakote, vinyl decals, vinyl masking… everything either ended up taking too much skill, space, or free time. We ended up contracting with a friend-of-a-friend who does custom vinyl work as a business, and he printed and placed the design as seen on the shield. Between the durable vinyl and the powdercoat base, it’ll take a beating no problem should it ever see action on an airsoft field.

As of posting this I still have to fabricate and adhere on the arm strap mounting strips. I’ll update the post as that moves forward.

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Mirror & LED ring clock

After seeing this post on the laser cutting subreddit, I was pondering ideas for a mirror clock that wouldn’t have a mechanical clock in the middle. It occurred to me that the solution would be to make use of some large and small NeoPixel addressable LED rings and an Arduino controller.

I have the rough dimensions for the LED rings I’d want to use, next step will be to source some small round and / or square mirrors and test laser engraving them to see what results I get.

Update 2/6/21 – Stopped by Michaels, found some 7″ diameter mirrors for just a few bucks, also found some 4″ square ceramic tiles which I should be able to test engraving as well.

The backlighting has a few design stages I’d like to test:

  1. LED ring lights up for each numbered position on the clock
  2. LED ring transitions between each numbered position on the clock along with a secondary ring for minutes
  3. LED for each numbered position on the clock changes color based upon time of day (transitions between bright yellow-white midday to orange sunset, white with blue for moon at night, then orange sunrise, etc).
    1. This would essentially be a 24 hour clock, I’d probably want to generalize morning / evening off an average time.

Beskar Ingot Phone Case

Recently upgraded to a Pixel 4a and wanted to customize the case some. Seeing as I know you can laser cut / engrave leather (both real or “PU leather”), I decided to grab a couple of wallet cases.

I’d been provided with an art file of the beskar ingot pattern from The Mandalorian, and scaled / resized it to fit across the entire opened case.

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