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Halloween 2022

先週はハロウィーンでしたので、３Dプリントしたコスチュームをやっと着れました。今回北九州でしましたが、次回から阿蘇のほうでしようと考えています。

Last week was Halloween, so I finally got to try on my new costume. This year was my final halloween night out in Kitakyushu, so from next year I think I'll try Kumamoto or Aso!



▲　コスチュームのイメージはこんな感じでした。

This was the costume I was aiming for - Johnny Depp from the old Edward Scissorhands movie. He actually has a head-to-toe leather bodysuit, covered in buckles and straps, but using this old shirt and grey trousers to cover up most of it makes it much, much easier to duplicate as a costume.

▲ 「80sロッカー」のかつらを買ったんだけど、切る前に念のために写真も撮りました！コワイ！

I found a messy wig on Amazon, entitled "80s Rocker", which I thought would make a good basis for Edward's hair. I couldn't help take this incredibly dumb pic before I started cutting, and had a shave for the makeup.

▲ 切った後に木材ボンドと水を混ぜて、指で形を作りました！

After trimming off much of the length and bulk of the wig, I mixed wood glue and water, and worked it into the wig with my fingers. I could have tried hairspray or mousse, but I thought that the glue would be much harder and stay in shape better, once it was dry.

▲ この前プリントしたScissorhandsのグローブをやっと使えました。

These were the gloves I printed last month, and painted up with lots of silver scratches and edges.

▲ 首のやつがダイソのベルトで作りました。メイクも100円ショップで買いました。

The neck piece was made from a few 100-yen shop belts, and velcroed at the back. Then I cut one suspender belt, as per the movie, and pinned it together again. The makeup was also 100-yen shop pale foundation, with a deep purple for the lips and some eye shadow around the eyes. Not perfect, but luckily it would be dark later on, so hopfully it would do fine.

▲ 手なしの夜は大変だったけど、全部で大成功でした！来年、阿蘇市のほうでハロウィーンもしようね！

And here's the final costume! Edward Scissorhands! Those hands were tricky to move around in, but it looked great! Watch out for me haunting Aso next year as Edward....

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Online store opening sale グランドオープンの割引

今日からオンライン通信販売サイトのグランドオープンセール始まります！「GRANDOPEN」の割引コードをレジページに入れるとなんと２０％OFFになります！

現在、日本歴史アイテム91個も載せています。そして、7つの縮尺でご注文できます。

We're starting our grand opening sale from today, with an awesome 20% OFF discount available on everything at the moment - just enter the discount code "GRANDOPEN" at the shopping cart register page!

Currently we've got a whopping 91 items available in the store, at 7 different model scales.

ぜひどうぞ、ご注文をお待ちしております！

We're looking forward to printing your orders soon!

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Opening a webstore 通信販売サイトを開店します！

やっと通信販売用ビジネスの準備ができました！３Dプリントのアトリエには最近看板、展示スペース、スタンプなどの用意ができましたので、間もなくフルタイムの３Dプリント工房をオープンいたします。

It's taken a lot of work to get to this stage, but at loooong last the 3D print studio is ready to open. Recent projects included making a shop sign, making display shelves, and 3D-printing a shop stamp for bags and shipping.



▲ 3台のプリンターでいろんなグッズが簡単に作れますが、まずは日本の模型モデルから始まります。

We have three 3D printers available for projects, and there's a massive variety of things that can be produced, but we're going to start with our very own range of designs of historical Japanese buildings and models.

▲ 商品の登録を今週から始めますが、ちょっとかかりますので少々お待ちください。最初の模型コレクションは「神社」です！ぜひ、ご覧ください。。。

To that end I've been busily redesigning this website to work as an e-commerce website, and I'll be adding more products over the coming weeks. To start with, please take a look at the new models from our Shrine Collection! Much more coming soon....

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A lucky escape with the typhoon! 台風がヤバいけどラッキー!

昨日の台風が大きかった！しかし、いつも暴風の天気なら車が心配ですので、今回いつもの所から移動しました。

Japan just had its 14th typhoon (for this year) yesterday, and this one rolled right up the middle of Kyushu. Since I haven't yet built a garage to keep my little blue car safe, it's always been covered by sheets and just parked outside the house.... which is always very worrying in strong winds!

Well, look what happened ....



▲ これがいつもの駐車場スペースですね。。。杉の木が台風で倒れたみたいですが、ちょうどあそこです！

See that large pine tree? That's been pushed over by the typhoon EXACTLY where my car is normally parked! Oh my goodness I am very, very lucky I moved it to somewhere safer!

▲ そのまま車があれば、おしまいかもね？確かにラッキー！

My car's only made of plastic fibreglass and has a soft roof, so if that tree had fallen on it that would probably have been a total write-off! Sometimes I feel very lucky :)

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Edward Scissorhands 3Dプリント

ハロウィーンはもうすぐです。コロナの影響で何年もイベントなかったし、今年がせっかくですので新しいコスチュームを作ろうかなぁ。。。

Halloween's coming up soon, and this will probably be my last opportunity to costume it up in a big city. Plus everything's been very quiet for the past few years thanks to the fun of coronavirus, so hopefully things will be a blast this year? So I've decided to create a new costume this year...

▲ 今年のハロウィーンでEdward Scissorhandsのコスチュームを作りたいです。80年代の映画だけで日本でも名作ですね。

This year I decided to try Edward Scissorhands, and the major part of that costume is of course those deadly scissor hands! That seemed a great opportunity to mix 3D printed technology, so I got to work.

▲ 3Dプリント用のファイルをネットで見つけましたので、数日間でパーツをプリントしました。

I managed to find the print files online for free (costumers are lovely people!!), so I spent a few days printing out the various parts required.

https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-edward-scissorhands-articulated-glove-assemblies-11799

▲ 接着剤で指のパーツを組み合わせたら、こんな感じでした。想像できるでしょう？

With the multipart pieces for the fingers glued together, you can see them quickly taking shape.




▲ 次はホットボンドで100円ショップで買った作業手袋に付けました。

Next I grabbed some cheap black plastic-coated work gloves from the local 100yen shop, and glued in each fingers with hot glue. Easy!

▲ 最後がペイントですね。まずは黒いスプレーの後にシルバーに塗りました。それからはさみのように赤いと黒い部分のアクセントと錆もしました。これで完成です！

Painting was the next step. I started with a simple black spray undercoat, and then painted on silver acrylic by hand. Then I went back over a few fingers and painted scissor grips in red or black, before weathering everything with a few scratches, and dabs of brown and orange for rust. All finished!

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