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Adam Savage builds a resin Model
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Adam Baker
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Watched this video while working this morning. Had intended on posting it here but got busy. Thought it was a great video, and loved watching him do the painting. Really like that he's a model builder.
I'm interested in the kit he did, but at 240 bucks, its really out of my price range.
I'm interested in the kit he did, but at 240 bucks, its really out of my price range.
You know with the exposure this guy has he could be a great for the hobby.
Is it me or do they both have multiple bandaids on?
I like how Adam test paints, doesn't even try to keep clean, right on his hand. :geek
Is it me or do they both have multiple bandaids on?
I like how Adam test paints, doesn't even try to keep clean, right on his hand. :geek
Adam Baker
Active member
Haha, I caught that too, he just sprayed the airbrush right on his hand, haha.
Correct, he worked for Industrial Light & Magic as a model maker, among other things. I know he worked on at least 1 of the new Star Wars Trilogy movies, and I'm pretty sure that Grant Imahara & Tory Bellici (Mythbusters Mythterns) both worked for ILM at the same time, and that was how they originally met.
You know with the exposure this guy has he could be a great for the hobby.
Is it me or do they both have multiple bandaids on?
I like how Adam test paints, doesn't even try to keep clean, right on his hand. :geek
Correct, he worked for Industrial Light & Magic as a model maker, among other things. I know he worked on at least 1 of the new Star Wars Trilogy movies, and I'm pretty sure that Grant Imahara & Tory Bellici (Mythbusters Mythterns) both worked for ILM at the same time, and that was how they originally met.
Adam Baker
Active member
Actually, you can hear someone turn on an exhaust fan once he starts to paint. Personally I prefer to exhaust right at where I'm painting, but you can at least hear that he does have a fan going in the background.
No respirator, or exhaust fan either. (!?!)
Too much of that stuff Laquer, and resin dust dust will kill you in short order.
This does g me fired up to build some of the MaK stuff that I have in the stash! :geek
Cheers,
Bill
Adam Baker
Active member
For anyone that's interested, here's a link to the Google Maps tour of Adam's shop.
This place is just amazing.
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.753918,-122.420677,3a,75y,176h,90t/data=!3m5!1e1!3m3!1sBdGhwCpf40wAAAAGOvCBAQ!2e0!3e2!6m1!1e1
This place is just amazing.
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.753918,-122.420677,3a,75y,176h,90t/data=!3m5!1e1!3m3!1sBdGhwCpf40wAAAAGOvCBAQ!2e0!3e2!6m1!1e1
Old Dog
Well-known member
I'm assuming Adam is not married :gogo I hope the camera man had on a respirator and a some sort of cover to keep the over spray off his camera lens. It also seems I wasted a lot of $$$ on double action air brushes. He certainly didn't seem worried about conserving any of that now extinct Floquil paint, I wish I had his supply in my stash !
HA!
Adam the actor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p14xIE_0F7M
According to Wiki he's married with two kids.
Adam the actor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p14xIE_0F7M
According to Wiki he's married with two kids.
ausf
Master at Arms
I love this guy's work, not only at ILM but how he promotes science in general.
That said:
I thoroughly enjoyed the video, but honestly I found myself cringing through most of it. Between the spraying of thinner into the air (explosion anyone?), lack of resp protection for solvents or dust, scaling with an exacto towards your wrist or holding the brush in your mouth, it really is a 'how not to' as much as it is a building video.
I really hope that he takes better care himself when off camera, just so he's around longer.
I used to work in makeup effects. At 20 I became a student of Dick Smith (shown in memorium during last night's Oscars) and at 21 my budding career was devastated by a spinal cord tumor from working with similar materials in the same fashion (for years earlier). No joke, it completely altered my life, still does to this day, so that's not an over-reaction, that's first hand experience.
On a second note, a friend used to clean plastilene off his shop floor with acetone. One day, the basement door was open and the fumes made their way down the stairs to the water heater and flashed right up to him. He only lost his facial hair and some off the top, really escaped disaster and laquer thinner is much more flammable than acetone. Atomizing a solvent into the air, regardless of 'room sized' ventilation is nuts. All risk, zero gain.
Please protect your self.
That said:
I thoroughly enjoyed the video, but honestly I found myself cringing through most of it. Between the spraying of thinner into the air (explosion anyone?), lack of resp protection for solvents or dust, scaling with an exacto towards your wrist or holding the brush in your mouth, it really is a 'how not to' as much as it is a building video.
I really hope that he takes better care himself when off camera, just so he's around longer.
I used to work in makeup effects. At 20 I became a student of Dick Smith (shown in memorium during last night's Oscars) and at 21 my budding career was devastated by a spinal cord tumor from working with similar materials in the same fashion (for years earlier). No joke, it completely altered my life, still does to this day, so that's not an over-reaction, that's first hand experience.
On a second note, a friend used to clean plastilene off his shop floor with acetone. One day, the basement door was open and the fumes made their way down the stairs to the water heater and flashed right up to him. He only lost his facial hair and some off the top, really escaped disaster and laquer thinner is much more flammable than acetone. Atomizing a solvent into the air, regardless of 'room sized' ventilation is nuts. All risk, zero gain.
Please protect your self.
Heavens Eagle
Well-known member
Have not watched the video as I am at work and have no internet at home. With that said, the comments everyone is making about painting in a closed room etc. is quite important.
Many, many moons ago I did airbrushing in a closed room. (Yeah I know Stew-pid! :smack ) One night after a long spraying session, I went out to the kitchen, got a can of Mtn Dew and went back to a room full of fog
! That night I started building a way to ventilate the fumes. A brushless instrument fan, some acrylic sheet, and some dryer hose made a nice cheap little paint booth that sucked the paint and fumes right out the window.
I built a new paint booth before starting on any kits this go round. Works quite well, just a little noisy when in high mode. :geek
Many, many moons ago I did airbrushing in a closed room. (Yeah I know Stew-pid! :smack ) One night after a long spraying session, I went out to the kitchen, got a can of Mtn Dew and went back to a room full of fog
! That night I started building a way to ventilate the fumes. A brushless instrument fan, some acrylic sheet, and some dryer hose made a nice cheap little paint booth that sucked the paint and fumes right out the window.I built a new paint booth before starting on any kits this go round. Works quite well, just a little noisy when in high mode. :geek
Wow Jeff, didn't know you had all that happen to you. Yeah he does need to address the safety issues, it looked like a pretty big room they were working in, looks like industrial size, maybe some major ventilation that wasn't mentioned.
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