What have you made/created today?

So I drew this after my lunch friday and posted it on ig and was checking out who liked it that I didnt know... The original tmnt movies from the 90's Leonardo was one of those people... Makes me feel a little bad I didn't spend more time on the coffee mug... But still pretty awesome

 

My brother in law and nephew came over today and we made this. It's an air rocket launcher. You make the rockets out of construction paper and launch. We saw it at a campground we visit and figured we'd build our own. So much fun for kids and adults alike!

 

Finished this lcr w/ crimson trace (that I didn't have) build

 

tried drawing my wife in a new dress from memory but gave up half way through and just turned her into tinker bell... also I gave up on the hands stuck em behind her and then ran it through some contrast/exposer stuff to make it pop a little

 

Restored an old magazine rack into a end table with glass top recently. Pictures of old local landmarks are under the glass. Second image is of a pen and ink drawing I had done from one of those post cards last week.

 

For our anniversary recently I gave my wife a card and then did a wood burning of the rose on the card as a gift.

 

something is still off but I have been messing with it for far too long today

 

Just finished the ink work on this one. Looking at creating a coloring book for children and adults about drag racing. I was approached about doing this last fall and have about 40 images ready for print. Toymater is my Tacoma.

 

Try making rockets out of 1 liter soda bottles! They go so far, I build these with my students at camp and launch them in a field nearby!

 

Great story....

 

So I've watched several videos on aircrete and I almost couldnt believe that how that are doing this actually worked much less produce results like they claim but I just mixed up a small batch and it looked just like it does on the videos. I'm going more for the cost effective decorative purpose so I was gonna cuz my cement with sand anyway but wound up buying type n porter which is 1 part Portland cement: 1 part lime: 6 parts sand (about twice the sand I was gonna use but this is just some trial runs and it was half the price of a bag of straight Portland) skip to about 8:30 to see him start mixing the aircrete
https://youtu.be/aSLJCPR1Prw


If this brick floats in gonna... Well ill already have a brick but you know what I mean

 

It Freakin floats... This mix is pretty brittle so I have some tweaking to do but it is looking promising. This is also about 22 hours after it was poured; it may have benefited from another day but I dont think it would have been strong enough for my intentions. Got another batch I made with just less water in my slurry but about the same amount of foam to see if that will be any stronger tomorrow

 

what are you planning/trying to make?

 

Like some siding basically to cover the block on my crawl space

 

Outside or inside? Assuming outside? Ambitious goal, hope it works out for you!

 

Yes outside. Im planning on making forms from 8' 2x4 if this works and just scoring in some faux grout lines or laying something in the bottom of the forms so they look like individual bricks, but ill be able to knock out an 8' section at a time instead of an 8" section Ha Ha hopefully

 

Nothing fancy. Had to build some fillers for the sconces on the garage.

Would’ve been easier but had to rabbit the inside to go over the surface mount box.

 

A fresh coat of Walrus Oil on a freshly finished Maple, Cherry and Padauk cutting board.

 

Played a little more with this stuff. This is about 28"x6"x3"... Its still brittle but a little less that the first attempt and I used about 8lbs of mortar mix (to my best calculations without using a scale and basing the ratio of sand, cement, and lime density to the volume I used) so I guess this brick weighs about 8 lbs... Im not sure it will float but I may test it in a day or two when it fully cures. I think there is just way too much sand in this premixed stuff... Oh also I took a pencil and scored grout lines after I poured it to see how that worked and it aint too bad

 

I must have missed it, what’s the end goal?