20 Jul
First of all…an apology for not posting in so long, but after the show at the Artisan’s Bench, things got hectic. I not only got a couple orders for commissioned airship pieces, but I’ve been preparing a new workspace and all that has taken a lot of my time.
Today, I’m posting how I built the mechanical eye on the steampunk deer head. I had an old bakelite 220 plug cover that looked cool, so I scuffed it up and painted it copper, antiqued it with a green patina, then drilled out a hole large enough to accommodate an old magnifying glass that I’ve had literally for years. I thought that the combination of these two things would make a cool eye.
Painted Bakelite plug in upper left
Drilled out Bakelite plug
Magnifying glass in place
For grins, I thought I’d make the eye red. This is simple, since I collect pieces of broken auto tail lens as well… (don’t ask…). So I shaped a piece of this tail lens and glued that to the underside of the eye.
Tail lens piece and underside of eye
Lens in place in mechanical eye
Now that I’ve shown the construction of the steampunk cyborg eye, I need to show what I decided to put under it, but I’ll save that for next time.
Stay tuned!