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Good morning! I am not here today and a sub will be covering for me. Please be respectful and follow any directions you are given even if they are a little different that how I would ask. Being a sub is hard work and we need to appreciate their help. Today, you are going to work respond to these questions based on the Eric Strebel video in the Part 3 section of Project 10 . Respond to these questions in a Word file and upload that file to teams when you are done. 1. In what shapes can you purchase styrene? 2. Where can you purchase styrene? 3. What is interesting and useful about most styrene tubing? 4. What is one suppler of styrene stock? 5. What are hobby models made from? 6. What glues work well for styrene? 7. How can you bond PVC to styrene? 8. What technique for glue application does Strebel use? 9. What type of cutting tools does Strebel use? 10. How does styrene solvent weld work? 11. What is the trade-off of using a kicker for CA (super) glue?

For Project 10, we will be scratch-building a spaceship. This is an exciting process with a lot of steps. To make this easier, I will be splitting this into a number of steps. We'll finish each step before moving on to the next one. Step 1: Spacecraft Model Making The model makers who make spacecraft for film and television are responsible for creating details that bring to life these futuristic vessels. It's a challenge and there are some examples in the history of film and TV that stand out. These videos are all about the special effects and techniques of making model space ships. Step 2: Scratch-Building How To We are going to mostly follow Adam Savage's techniques for making model spaceships. He did two builds exploring the techniques in a lot of detail. Watch both of these videos to gather a more complete understanding of the process we will be using. Step 3: Working with Styrene Working with styrene is different than working with any other material we've enc

David Neat, a talented teacher of model making, has an interesting article about what it takes to be a model maker. For this assignment, create a mind map of the skills that David says model makers need.  https://davidneat.wordpress.com/2020/10/01/so-you-think-youd-like-to-be-a-model-maker-part-1/ Make your mind map on a separate piece of paper an take a picture of it an upload it into Teams. If you are fuzzy on mind maps, take a look at this link:  https://www.ayoa.com/ourblog/6-mind-mapping-examples-for-students-and-teachers/

Today, find an interesting piece of media (picture, podcast, video) about book nooks or tabletop gaming models that you would like to share with everyone in the class. The only requirements is that it be interesting to you and school appropriate. Post the picture, link, or resource in the chat today.

 I don't know if you have ever heard of these, but I think that book nooks are really cool and an excellent way to do dioramas without devoting a ton of space to them.

We are going to follow Black Magic Craft's tutorial and make some interesting walls. I will be providing you with the foam and paint that you need to make these walls. To get familiar, watch the video to see the steps: Instead of using chipboard for the supports, we are going to use scrap cardboard. So, that's your first challenge for today. Look around and see if you can find some scrap cardboard that you can use for this project. Make sure that it's relatively clean (no pizza boxes or things that might be greasy) and not a box that someone is using for something.  Carefully cut this scrap into rectangle sizes. 8 inches by 10 inches would be good. Be carful if you are cutting this material. It's easy to loose control of the scissors or knife. Post in the chat your pile of cardboard scrap to prove that you are ready to make some walls!

Tabletop gaming is an interesting area of model making. Many of the techniques from model railroading have taken root in this genre. What is tabletop gaming modeling? It's the creation of miniature models for games like Dungeons and Dragons, Warhammer, . The inclusion of models enhances game play and makes the fantasy world of these games more immersive. You can see from the enthusiasm of the community that this style of model making is very much alive and well. I particularly like that it's a model genre that yields impressive results with a minimum number of tools and supplies. Much of the raw stock for these kinds of models is junk or cast-off pieces. We will see some interesting examples later on. To start out with, I would like to share a few articles that I think would explore this type of model making in more detail. Introduction https://www.polygon.com/2018/12/13/18131042/tabletop-wargaming-miniatures-warhammer-40k-brushes-terrain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miniature