#trashbash

[rats-arts]

look at my lil spaceship (gonna take some proper photos later this week :3)

[kraftcheese]

More packing material buildings: some little townhouses/apartments!

[shmoopsart]

I made some progress on the mask!

So using some elastic I had lying around in my drawer along with some cardboard and some more of the pool noodle I made the bottom jaw

I painted those areas black that way when I fur him if any of those spots are bare they won’t be awkwardly blue

The nose is covered in some leather from a busted cup holder from my parents golf cart

(Cup holder in question)

I’m currently working on the teeth using some “friendly plastic” (some plastic beads I can heat up and mold to any shape and let it cool to solidify) to make some base teeth I’ve been putting paper mache on to it makes teeth for him.

I have plans to see if my dad has any caulk laying around among his tools I can use to make the gums when the time comes for that.

[ricardoazsi]

A trash-bashed series of Romulan ship models. 2015.

Follow the Carioca Docks blog link for details on the models and the material used in their making.

https://cariocastfleet.blogspot.com/2015/01/frota-romulana.html

[kstengaard]

Say hello to my little robot

[timber-tinkers]

Looking good with some primer. #scratchbuiltrobots #scratchbuiltrobot #scratchbuild #scratchbuilt #trashbashing #trashbash #kitbash #kitbashing #robot #robots #scifi #scififantasy #scifiart #scratchbuilding https://www.instagram.com/p/CoDGSfBONJs/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[bfleuter]

Two more. Alright! I think that's out of my system for the time being.

[bfleuterart]

More of these shadowbox trash-collages.

[spaceintruderdetector]

how to make a SF model with trash

[antixabound]

since I am a person who has opinions and am free to speak on said opinions, as you are free to not acknowledge or disagree. I think that Equius would fucking love the idea of Warhammer 40000 (obviously he wouldn’t be able to build or play with the models, but he could probably commission things) and when I say he would love it, I mean he would probably be a diehard imperium fan boy but not the “HERESY HERESY HERESY” type but more of the worst kind that is like “the imperium is the best option of government”. he would have one homebrew space marine chapter called some shit like the Astra Equus and he would write fucking novels of lore for them.  Meanwhile Nepeta collects orks and splatters dollar store toys and shit in grime and greebles and makes a trukk or a battlewagon. and she also puts little cat ears on all of them. She calls them the green lions and their lore is that they are like giant murder cats with guns.

 Feel free to add your own personal opinions or to show up at my castle and throw rocks but be warned I have a wand of obliteration.

[paperandpencilsandskips]

There's so many no2 canisters where I'm at lying down the trash, holy shit

I kinda wanna use them to trashbash mecha models

[boreal-sea]

It's really interesting to me...

I'm currently getting into two related but distinct online crafting communities.

The first are folks who make miniature models of things, usually nerdy things, often through using model-building techniques and kitbashing and trashbashing. The painting techniques I see the artists use remind me most of what I learned when I was beginning to paint Gundam models and TTRPG miniatures, which includes base layers, flat color layers, airbrushing, dark washes, drybrushing, and aging effects. I see a lot of use of foam, interesting pieces of trash, popsicle sticks, and polymer clays. There's also sometimes resin pours for water effects. When there are characters made, stages are often designed.

The other community are custom doll makers. Priming is still an important step, though the materials used for priming are usually different. Also, these artists usually use colored pencils for detail work and only use paint for certain things. The other main coloring tool are crushed pastels that are dusted onto the dolls. I see air-dry clay used here much more often than polymer clay. Some artists really get into designing elaborate stages for the dolls. These builds can also include resin for underwater effects. Also, depending on the artist, there may be clothing involved, but not all of them do clothed dolls.

What's fascinating to me is the very different techniques used for coloring the models. The folks making the miniature models and characters use almost exclusively paints; the doll makers use almost exclusively colored pencils and pastels (with many layers of a matte sealant between layers).

I'd like to get involved in some kind of crafting once I get to my new job and get all settled in. I wonder how cross-compatible some of these techniques are. I'd imagine the dark washes, weathering, and drybrushing techniques could be applied to dolls. Of course, the whole purpose of those techniques is to create very textured surfaces, which perhaps is not desirable to some of the doll artists, who might prefer a softer look.

[kraftcheese]

Got a few buildings together: now to finish em off! Close to 1:160-ish scale, been making them in spare moments after work.

Packing cardboard, sprues, assorted junk and leftover IKEA dowels on 1 inch ply hex bases.

[shmoopsart]

So I make art out of trash and so right now I’m making a costume of death from puss in boots out of trash.

I know it isn’t the best material to make a costume out of cause ya know sweat and like it could break but listen man foam is expensive and how else am I gonna be a scrunkly lil garbage goblin if I don’t make garbage art????

I made the base out of cardboard and have shaped him out using an old pool noodle and some foam packaging from when I bought my PC.

Once the base is completely sculpted I’ll add layers of blue paper towels soaked in glue which makes it very strong cause the blue paper towels absorb it all well and they are meant to stay in tact when wet and such so they be strong af

I stash a lot of trash (clean trash not anything like greasy or unsanitary) to make art out of.

I love to find uses for things people view as useless, in my eyes everything has some kind of use you just gotta find it. Plus if I make beautiful things out of trash it won’t end up in a land fill or the ocean.

[ricardoazsi]

A trash-bashed Perry Rhodan robot model. 2020.

Follow the Carioca Docks blog link for details on the model and the material used in its making.

[syrinq]

one day the dreams of lil homonculus me might become real (crocheting > other crafts like sewing plushies & polymer clay crafts & painting gundams & customising figures & kit/trashbashing pipeline)