michaelcthulhu

Chick confused by snoring pillow.

We have baby chicks under a heat lamp in the house, I decided to test how lazy/tolerant the cat is, I had to end the experiment because there was no upper limit to laziness with one chick. I think tonight we will test how many chicks can fit on him before he decides to move. 

The Black Sword

So I thought I would have this done by the end of the month, but it turns out that's only true if you consider it's still the 31st in SOME parts of America.  Being self employed, you get the illusion of "I can take time off whenever I want",  I lost nearly a week because everyone in the house (other than me, thankfully) got sick ...

AND HOW WAS YOUR DAY?

I had a super long complicated couple of hours at the Fedex Office trying to Ship the Biomechanaxe. I got it done though. 

Bonus Content Live Q&A

At about 28 minutes in the camera decided to turn itself off, I noticed it, but thought I'd missed the entire thing (like forgot to press record) but it turned out to be an unexpected issue with the memory card where it could only write 4.5 gigs of footage at a time. It was weird doing one of these in person, whenever I venture out into meatspace I...

The Unspeakable Axe

AKA the Giger Axe AKA the Gigax AKA the Gygax. The reason this is up a day early is I'm doing a talk tomorrow for the Cape Cod Maker Faire, so if anyone is in Mashpee and wants to see this thing in the (steel) flesh I will be there. If you are not there I will record the thing too. 

Foley work with animals.

You should see what they use to make the noise of a cat purring!

Also, on a related note, do most people here also follow me on facebook? I post stuff like this more frequently over there, and while I don't blame anyone for not wanting to have a facebook account, you should still be able to see all the random crap I post there by going to fac...

Bonus Video

One of the headaches of the getting the last video up was my camera breaking. Here's a video of me fixing it. One continuous 54 minute shot cut down to like 7 and a half minutes. 

Rod Of Asclepius

Between my camera breaking, erasing the wrong SD card and fighting youtube all day (video takes 3 hours to upload, twice it got to 95% and then froze the upload), it's a miracle I was able to get this video done this month! 

Tiny Carnage

Based on the advice of more the one of you I made a "test video" with the micro buster sword. Here is an ad free version for you guys, this is stitched onto the end of the public version of the micro build video. 

Bonus Micro Build

I might make this public in a week or so. In the meantime here's a small thing I did today. 

Cleaning of Khopesh

Bonus Materials. 

Skeksis Pauldron Complete.

Every month it's the same, I think I'm going to have an easy month and then something throws a spanner in the works. So this months adventure was I wanted to have the shoulder plate finished by the 20th, because my brother and father were coming over from the old country for a week long visit. I missed the 20th deadline, and had to sneak out in bit...

T is for Testicular Torsion.

It's not definite though. Going in for an ultrasound at 8am. Wish me luck! Also please enjoy video of my daughter reading C is for Cthulhu. 

Messing on the Bar.

In her defense, I'm covered in all sorts of marks. 

11th hour again.

Just barely managed to get this done before the end of the month. Next month  (aka tomorrow) I will be making the shoulder plate this locks into. It's going to look like the head of a Skekis, or so is the plan. 

TIG welder

So thanks to you guys I finally bought a TIG welder! It's been over a lustrum since I last messed with one so I am very very very rusty. Also I had remembered wrong, and need to buy 100% argon to make it go properly apparently, so the welds are kinda dirty (the MIG welder uses an Argon/CO2 mix), but I was getting the hang of maintaining a weld befo...

Teaching my daughter how to develop trust issues.

Bonus Material

If that's what they cut out, what they leave in must be pure gold!

Does this count as child abuse?

In which I teach my children about their cultural heritage. 

Dragonslayer Build

Literally just in the nick of time (was aiming for the end of the month). I thought I would have this one done in plenty of time, but I miscalculated how much holiday season related activities would impinge (not that I resent festive cheer or anything, it's my own fault for not factoring that in properly).  Thank you everyone again! Happy New ...

The Spoonge

OK, I think I'm officially going to change the "funny picture" prize to a "funny video" prize. They're just far more fun to do. (Also, does this mention that it's a "free" post, or do all you guys have to hold your breath every time I post something?). This is for all the $3 + prize people.

The Spoonge

OK, I think I'm officially going to change the "funny picture" prize to a "funny video" prize. They're just far more fun to do. (Also, does this mention that it's a "free" post, or do all you guys have to hold your breath every time I post something?). This is for all the $3+ award peoples.  

Soul Reaver Build!

Well guys, between not getting the steel till the middle of October, Halloween, my mother visiting from Ireland, me getting sick, an external hard drive that kept deleting it's own index and Thanksgiving (which, despite being here a full lustrum still manages to sneak up on me) this video took WAY longer to finish than I thought it should. Here it ...

Soul Reaver (Incomplete)

Hey guys! I was hoping to have this finished by the end of October, but because of various things, the biggest of which was not being able to get the (stainless) steel until October 15th, I'm about two weeks short of where I want to be. Since I normally post near the end of the month here's a video of what I have done so far, this video is exclusiv...

Live Patreon Q&A Experiment

GUYS APPARENTLY DUE TO DAYLIGHT SAVINGS I'M LIVING IN GMT -4, NOT -5 LIKE I THOUGHT I WAS. I SPEND MOST OF THE YEAR IN -5 MY APOLOGIES. THE Q&A IS IN 1 HOUR NOT 2!

Patreon Q&A

OK guys here is a thing at 1pm GMT-4 tomorrow. I have a little wiggle room with the time, but tomorrow (and everyday) from about 6pm GMT-4 I have to do the dinner-kids-to-bed dance and that means I wouldn't be free until 8:30pm GMT-4, which is too late for most of your European cousins. 

Silent Hill Great Knives Build!

Thanks again guys! I was so frazzled trying to get this done I haven't had a chance to respond to any one about the Patreon Q&A, it will happen though! Does Friday suit people? I wanted to do it today to coincide with the video, but I was too frazzled trying to get this done (I literally just got this uploaded an hour ago and was waiting to see...

Live Q&A

Hey guys, I'm assuming you guys would be interested in private Live Q&A limited to Patreon backers only? The regular Q&A's I do over at youtube get stupid crowded. If so people can tell me what times suit them (and your time zone), I'll try and work out  something. 

Thanks Again Everyone!

Yesterday due to a spectacular error on my part I accidentally reformatted an SD card that had footage from the next build video on it. As you can imagine, I swore quite a lot, howled at the moon etc. I found online a pair of programs that could claimed they could retrieve the footage, the free program kinda worked, but the movie files were all fil...

Thanks Again!

I think I'm going to be able to get a tig welder if you guys keep being awesome! Thanks so much!