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I can see what's wrong. The head is fine but the body is on backwards.
Could do a nice conversion to a fish.... legs off , fins on, tube in the back of it's neck so it can breathe.
So do witches!
And ducks
And the likeness is also much higher
If we all have avatars that look like us shy people may be reluctant to join in.
And new people might get traumatized.
Because our real appearance might frighten them, or because they think they would have to reveal their own self?
The latter.
Keep On Pulling...Keep On Pulling...
Jack tries in vain to dislodge the glued horse head from the body.
The Problem is the Body not the Head!
Jack: Maybe I've been looking at this all wrong. In the @background of my mind, I've had this glimmer of an idea that the head is fine. It's the body that is backwards! I need to separate the body!
One Sledgehammer, two C-Clamps, and three strong whacks later, the body is still stuck to the head like glue.
It's Working!
Jack grabbed the coping saw from his workbench pegboard. It's working! The body will be separated soon. Thank goodness. The next attempt was going to be the jackhammer. Nothing good could have come from that!
(Note: When I added the coping saw to the pegboard several renders ago, I had no idea that it would have any other use than to hang there. I simply looked in my library for skinny tools that could hang from those tiny pegs. I found that saw. I also found a pair of handcuffs. Nobody has wondered why Jack has handcuffs on his workbench pegboard. I guess it must be obvious to the most casual observer. I figure maybe it is a souvenir from his arrest and incarceration due to the hosta hijinks with Richard.)
Nooo! The rocking owl! Misstreated and brutally murdered for being different and inconvenient. I can totally see how the handcuffs fit in there.
The poor rocking owl never had a real chance. Jack was fixated on returning Richard's horse to its original form. Life can be cruel.
It's Fixed!
Jack: I'm exhausted. Fixing Richard's broken horse has been a whole lot harder than I anticipated. How do I get roped into these things? I still have to repaint it, but that can wait until tomorrow after the glue dries. I need a good night's sleep.
The handcuffs could be put on the person riding the horse, with the connecting link in the crook of the horses neck. So it's a safety feature to prevent the rider getting thrown off if the horse gets too wild.. Also did Jack use waterproof glue? I would hate to see the body come off if it was being used underwater. If it 'was' used underwater it would be more of a seahorse though.
Then I advice him avoiding back alleys. There maybe other rocking owls lurking in the shadows.
Why wouldn't he have shackles on a pegboard in his workshop? I do. 20 off 5 Tonne Lifting shackles. He's just got linked shackles of a less common design. And a VERY poorly equipped workshop. Vise, chisels, jigsaw, wood lathe, metal lathe, mini-mill, aluminium casting foundry, blacksmiths hearth, anvil - all missing (just mentally running through parts of my workshop at home). Oh yes, also missing: wood thicknesser, CNC mini router, power tools, loads of hand tools, chop saw and metal shaper. Dreadful state of affairs.
Regards,
Richard
One seahorse conversion kit later....
I have a few handy tools in my workshop. Airbrush + compressor, rivet press, romford screwdriver , hold-n-fold, rolling road, rolling bars, soldering iron , multimeter., resistance soldering iron ( which I need to learn how to use ) Just bought some new Garryflex blocks ( 120 grit ).
Rivet press looks like this one.
Thank you kindly. I love models that come apart and can be put back together to make something different. I hadn't looked at the rocking horse , or any of the toys in the Santa Toy Workshop, for source material so I'm happy you used it earlier.
@background, love that rivet press. I have seen one at work, but never played with it. Instead I have a 300kg Norton 6 Tonne Flypress, which can do the same job in the way a sledge can do the same job as a ball pien hammer.
Regards,
Richard
That's a serious piece of kit Richard, I'm sure is capable of precision work with a skilled craftsman like yourself, it's a matter of scale. My rivet press is not what it might appear, it puts a rivet shaped 'dent' into a piece of metal, no actual rivet is involved. The handle on the top is only six inches long so not much force can be applied. The rivets are only cosmetic. I'm sure a similar design could be used to press real rivets though. The rivets I am trying to represent would be only 0.2 mm dia. ( sorry I tend to freely mix metric and imperial dimensions, depending on application ). I don't think my eyesight wold let me work with real 0.2mm rivets, and really they are not intended to hold parts together, just to look like a minature version of something that was made with rivets and is 76 times larger.
Seeing your press has reminded me that it's Wednesday and I need to check out the latest 'Workshop Wednesday' from the Australian Armour Museum.. Last weeks video was two of the guys straightening out the hull sides of a WWII KV1S which had been used as a range target, with a 300 tonne hydraulic press, and a fine job they did.
Feel free to use the idea, or any part of it , if it fits with your stories. Since the original model is made by Sloshworks it's not something I could share ( and I'm sure Richard would be, shall we say 'somewhat peeved' if I did ). But I'm sure you can glue the parts back together as well, or better, than I can. Hey, maybe a seazebra, or a seamule, or a rocking dachshund...
Folks might have noticed I'm a bit more chatty than usual. That's because I'm feeling rough with what I think is mild Covid, so I'm not able to do stuff i usually do, and sitting at the computer at least takes my mind off it, and no risk of spreading it. No worries though, I have folks that can get here in 10 mins if i feel sudennly worse, and I have food and asprin and throat lozenges and suchlike. Don't want to divert the thread so enough of my minor ailments and back to Jack and Richard.
Well since Jack has handcuffs, maybe he is an undercover cop and also has https://www.daz3d.com/thief-tools. But a guy's garage needs to be kitted out with https://www.daz3d.com/everyday-tools, https://www.daz3d.com/big-time-tools, https://www.daz3d.com/woodworking-tools-1, and https://www.daz3d.com/lawn-tools-and-poses-for-genesis-8-male-s-and-female-s. I stayed away from the monster drill presses and such that made up my dad's metal shop in the garage. (He built working quarter-inch scale models of historic steam locamotives.)
I love how this is growing Barbult.
I have always treated power tools with respect, they can do a lot of damage in a very short time, and it only takes a moments distraction. I love the Nerdforge youtube channel, and Martina is a very gifted artist, but I wince whenever I see her missing finger, especially after the episode where she described how she lost it.
I thought cold chisels also tended to be quite prominent in DIY (not that I have ever been entirely sure what a cold chisel is - one that is trying too hard to be cool?). Though these days I would think most workshops are ninety percent power packs for gadgets that have stopped working and gadgets with power packs that have stopped charging.
I am relieved to see that Jack was finally able to sort out the head/body junction - not usually a problem for cats.