Aluminum doesn’t rust 
I let the rust activator set overnight. Looks pretty good; there are a few areas that need touching up on the lower edges, but overall I’m pleased with how this turned out.
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What an amazing work of art!
A fine and highly detailed disgorgement of industrial scrap and waste, with a disturbingly uber-realistic flow to it.
I think it belongs in the East Wing of the National Gallery of Art on the Washington Mall. Everyone would be asking, “What is it saying about us?”
Seriously, I love it! Bravo!! Bellissimo!!
How did you make it??
You need to sprinkle some up onto the block and add a grimy wash to the top of the blocks
1/4 pvc board base, bent to shape using a heat gun. Cover with silicone adhesive and aluminum shavings. The attach various other pieces of scrap, rod, sheet, etc.
A little searching in the web and an hour in CAD gives me a reasonable scrap handling magnet. Need to scale it up maybe 50%.
Looks great. But if you’re going to string it up, I’d suggest holes drilled where your lifting loops are, and using brass cotter or loop-headed split pins to take that load.
Yea, I think I’ll end up slotting the top and making the lifting lugs out of brass. I’m going for this look.
and, fortunately, they have a drawing so I’ve been working off that. I guess the protected gizmo on the top is the electronics box.
Some real chain like that will look outstanding.
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With FFF printing it is possible to print some negative space and hide a magnet in the print. Can that be done with resin?
In any event Bob, are you considering placing a rare earth magnet on your electromagnet? It might allow you to precariously attach bits to dangle without glue…
Neat idea Bill, plant a magnet in a cavity, and let it do its thing on some junk.
Maybe an easy way to print the cavity might be to print a lower ring (surrounding the magnet) separately, then print the superstructure and glue it onto the ring.
Cliff,
I went on a Print-a-Palouza when I found I could program a “hole” in tinkercad then pause a print to drop a magnet in side and seal it up.
The bolt template was one of my first attempts as I was testing how many layers would hide the magnet. This was one layer thick.
I’ve not seen that, very cool!
FYI
I just caught up with this Bob. I think you have been bitten by the bug from some of those outstanding dioramas you share with us. This is going to be a right fine diorama in its own right not just some stuff on the RR. very cool and very nice attention to detail.
At the show this past weekend, among other bits from @JRad, I got about three dozen short lengths of PVC 1x2. Should be enough to give me a good supply of scrap bundles.
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