KaptinScarlet

Thank you very much, you are too kind. Definitely send me pictures of the projects you come up with, if you have time, I'd love to see them.

All the very best

Chris

you are too nice to me!

yes thx, I spend my whole life at the moment thinking up new projects, making them with my kids and then making projects out of them, here's a sneak preview of the next couple coming up... Dinosaur fossil from a bit of fimo (sculpy), tile grout and a aerosol cap and a miniature USB powered Coke Tiffany Lamp. They'll be on dadcando this coming week and the next and I hope to be able to make instructables out of them soon too.

you will... I am hopoing to put that up on line at dadcando in the next day or so, with templates and stuff, and then post it as an instructable later the same week, it was dead easy to make and it looks every bit as cool as that in real life.

Great idea, but this was the one that I was copying, and this is my version complete with microcan made from a felt pen lid (that project is already on dadcando in the Junk section)

neat idea, can't wait to see it

Thx, yes loads more coming up in the next few months

thx, nice of you to say so.

thank you kind automaton, there will be more.

thank you, I'll try, got a few nice projects coming up!

I use a vector drawing package called Macromedia Freehand 10 (similar to Adobe illustrator) and draw them out like that. if the subject is complex then I might take a digital photo of it first and then draw round that. Most people just take photos, but I like drawing my projects up, it means that I don't have to photograph every step and I can make changes to the drawings to incorporate ideas that occur to me along the way. I also draw my projects up because I make them in to download PDFs for my website, dadcando and the vector line drawings make for a much smaller files size which helps with my downloading bandwidth.

thank you, yes you may call them props, or whatever you like I guess, glad you like them.

Hi, I most certainly am interested in any photos you might have of the doughnuts you've made. Have a look at dadcando (this is a link to the page where the d'oh nuts other people have made are shown) to give you an idea of what other people have sent me. I have retouched them to make them a bit sharper and I can tidy them up a bit if necessary.

Good luck making and I can't wait to see the photos.

Cheers

Of course I'll answer, I always reply. Ok paint, I used two types of paint on my doughnut. On the icing I used pink spray paint. That's because it was quick and allowed me to sprinkle the sugar strands straight on so that they would stick to the wet paint, yet it would dry quickly. You could use pink nail varnish (ask before you use someone else's, because it can be expensive and only comes in small bottles) but it does work, because I tried it too. You could even use pink gloss paint or modelmaker's enamel paints. For the the doughnut dough I used artists' acrylic paints (the sort that come in tubes). They're great for this sort of thing because although they are water based they cover well and dry water proof so you can over paint them. You could use house hold decorators vinyl paint (emulsion) say magnolia, if you didn't have any acrylic. If you've used masking tape for the main making then you should have no trouble painting it because it has a papery texture. OK, now you can do me a favour, when you've made your doughnut either post an image on instructables or email me a few pictures at c.barnardo@btinternet.com so that I can put the picture up on line on dadcando.com in the Your Own Models section. I'd love to see it and seeing what other people have made always encourages other people to make something too. Thx Chris

Nice to meet a fellow dad who does. I love the idea of those projects. Do you want to put them up on dadcando as well? I am interested in any content or inspiration for content. I like the stomp rocket idea and the trebuchet. Up until now I have done all the content for dadcando on my own. if you want to continue this feel free to email me on c.barnardo@btinternet.com , in the mean time good luck with writing those instructables. Cheers Chris

I Have... (BTW, that's such a nice comment.) In fact, I made dadcando for exactly that reason, mostly.... It's taken me about 6 months of constant effort and i am doing it full time now, and adding new projects all the time (although I am on holiday at the moment for the next week, with my kifs I am doing some more projects at the moment which I will be putting up on-line soon).

Actually if you go there and look in the MAKING section and then in the Your Own Models section you'll see that I have put your wands and your comments up there on line (Although I hope you don't mind, I had to add a tiny bit to the image coz the wand end was cut off the picture).

If you take pictures of anything else you make (and it doesn't have to be from dadcando) I'll put up on line there too, and if you come up with a new project, maybe we could make a NEW dadcando project out of it, or maybe we could jointly put it up on instructables, if it's good enough I don't mind doing the instructions and stuff.

Also don't forget to vote for the wand in the Harry Potter Challenge.

thx for your nice comments x