I’ve been watching too many online videos again, specifically videos where people make all kinds of interesting things out of rubbish. Also, despite attempts at organisation, the “bits” box is still overflowing.
So, when the time came to add the “storage tank” for this rather dodgy warehouse, I decided to go for a food can.
The plan was to try and break up the lines of the can without covering it completely, to see if I could make it look the part, although as usual “look the part” is a fairly broad criteria based on pictures and guesswork and a complete lack of any knowledge of such things.
Thus, I spent a happy hour sticking bits of printer packaging and leftovers from previous projects to the can, each other, my fingers, and on one occasion when I was distracted by something shiny, the workbench.
I even found an online calculator to work out how to cut an octagon to the right shape for the rather precarious “walkway” on the top of the can, which remarkably worked. So there: that’s maths that is, and never mind that I just put the numbers into the computer and let it do all the hard work. To give the walkway some texture, I added plastic parcel strapping: something else I seem to have collected in bulk over the last few months.
Now I have something that looks vaguely as I want, I’ll take this off to paint, in the hope I can make it look less like a giant lentil container, and more like a tank of dangerous and possibly highly volatile chemicals…
