The Time Machine Project-Time Machine Build -Feet

Building a Time Machine
The Base Part 1	The Chair Part 2	The Console Part 3
The Dish Part 4	The Feet Part 5	The Engine Housing Part 6
	The Rails Part 7

Building a Time Machine The Feet
The feet took way longer to do than I had expected.

Started with a paper pattern and cut foam to profile shape. The master is being done in two parts and will essentially a shell around steel structure with the wheels.	Beginning to carve in the details.	Details carved on both sides.

Covered both side in carpenters glue to seal the foal and give it a hard surface.	Sand, prime, repeat until it looks good.	Spot putty and primer ...

Out side surface finally finished.	Pulled a vacuform over a stack of the steel supports to create an inside recess that would allow the castors and support to fit into the reverse side of the two halves,	Begriming of a two part silicone mold required on both halves.

First castings in urethane resin.	Multiple castings with the steel supports fitted.

Here is one of the steel supports for the wheels. The steel was cut using a water jet cutter and then welded together,	Casting and one of the wheel supports test fitted. Even though I used the vacuform piece as an insert, each half of the casting required additional hand fitting by a dremel to make the supports fit.

Added coloring to the resin so there was a brown base color. A trick we learned during our Star Trek prop building days. If white resin was used and just painted, any time the prop got scratched the white would show and production would have to stop while the prop got the paint retouched, if the resin is a similar color it wouldn't be noticed and did not have to stop.

		Testing the red mahogany stain on one of the castings.

The four sets of steel supports and wheels	The feet attached to the base.
More to come ...