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Just an observation from the show years ago. I always thought the episode where you guys walked blindfolded...trying to walk in a straight line...would have worked better on flat ground instead of a field. Always wondered why you never tested that aspect and just tested in a field.
Thank you Adam and Tested team for answering my question! It was a really cool insight and I'm feeling inspired to check out mold making myself. Cheers
Aha I grew up without a dad so I feel like he's been that artsy father figure I've wanted especially when going into product design and technology in school who I've probably learnt more from than my tutors aha
I like how Adam pretends to think hard about which skill it was, when he is actually already 100% prepared with all the objects he needs for the rest of the video.
Rule No.1 Leave them wanting more. lol No need for a B-roll at the moment if he's going to be doing a video on actually casting a new model using the mould. However if that will be its last use it would be great to see that used to make a new mould as well :D
I'm fascinated about the connections Adam sees "mold making is like sewing in that way" ... What? That the connection is so clear to him that he doesn't elaborate? Fascinating
I am laughing hysterically because you just put it perfectly. And I thought I was the only one even though these videos years old, but I was waiting for Adam to Pause to take stock of the noise of the fire engine or something when I didn’t even hear the motor that was running in the other building or something.
Just been dipping my feet into the word of making (thanks to my 3D printer!). Oh man, mold making sounds crazy complex...but then, doesn’t everything when you’re brand new!
Its amazing when the right people, in the right place, at the right time all come together! It slightly saddens me that future generations won't have as much opportunity to learn molding due to CGI replacing so much of the high end model making that afforded this much talent to pool together. Haunted house prop making keeps the molding tradition alive but it certainly is not so precise and detailed. Thanks for sharing. That mold is a functional work of art!
I work in prosthetics fabrication, oral and ocular, I do quite a bit of mold making and casting myself... I love it its so much fun my materials are different but I love the similarities... I make my own mini star destroyers now lol...
Love it. I worked at a large packaging machinery OEM and we had a pattern maker, in the basement of the building naturally who was a master craftsman. Well before computers were even thought of. The materials used and methods maybe long gone but it was a privilege to have know him. An aside was he was a first generation Italian American and always had a great story and a stogie while he worked. You might have enjoyed meeting him. Thank you
Hey Adam love you and your craft I think what I love the most is how you choose to use your vocabulary and vernacular as well as the rhetoric involved. it always makes me want to expand a little bit on my vocabulary or get to know some of the words that you use. Coming from a poetic experience however some out of a sculpting and making experience as well
It’s beyond me how someone gan give a video like this a thumbs down. I guess some don’t appreciate a lifetime of knowledge and skills. So sad 😞 Keep up the great videos Adam 😁
Thank you for another ILM memory lane episode! Personally I'd like more 'ILM' styrene model building on this channel, like the Moebius video. Perhaps you could do one with some of your ex-colleagues from ILM? From concept drawing to tangible, where (some) the real magic happens.
Loved the old ILM....learned about "Augmentables" from those guys. That's a reference to using stuff meant for something else as a detail or part for a model of what you've been tasked with making. Such as the famous "gribli"
Very cool! I work in SolidWorks for my day job and I have 3D printers in my office... resulted in me drawing a 1/12 scale AT ST in full detail, held together with m3 and 1-72x5/16 hardware last winter, came out pretty awesome at about 29 or so inches in ht depending on how you pose it. Fits the 6 inch figures. Now that I have a resin printer I am going back over some of the smaller pieces with more detail, our FDM printer just couldn't do the tiny surface details I wanted. Not a mold, I know but it is cool to see the processes used and understand how lucky I am these days that if I can draw it, I can make it on the printers.
Everyone that has a creative ideas floating around in their head should invest in a 3D printer. They are simply amazing and a necessity of life for thinkers/dreamers/designers/engineers.
10, a beautiful subject, i cast brass longcase clock spandrels and bell 20 yrs ago, made a flat spandrel frame and floor, cast a -ve in plaster and carved the z into it, made a +ve from filo , sand cast from the +ve into split sand . Insects . I can feel your joy of casting.
Was this for Mirco Machines (if so your master was scaled down?) the 'Action Fleet' series or something else? I don't remember them making anything that size.
As Adam is holding up the two halves of the mold discussing how brittle they get over time, I could not help think "The lord Jehovah has given unto these 15, oy, 10 Commandments"
That was really fascinating! I have made types of retainers, mouthguards and cheek retractors using vacuforming and was only able to imagine more complex work... really cool to see the plaster and silicone work and have it explained!
That was great. I have a great number of the Galoob Action Fleet Star Wars ships and I believe you worked on he Y-Wing, which I have, and is my favourite Star Wars ship. Ok, 2nd, but favourite fighter. :)
Thank you for these videos. It's nice to feel like I'm having an intelligent conversation these days. Your ability to present science and other topics is refreshing. I had a conversation once where I was asked who was my favorite mythbuster. You came to mind first but then I realized it would be impossible to pick my favorite because all of you brought something different to the show. Each of you were my favorite at any given time. I believe that's what made you so popular and continues to entertain and teach us today. P.S. Please blow something up soon. Thanks
Wow, the mold looked rough, but the closer it got to the camera the more detailed and realistic it became!! I always wanted to see a Star Destroyer up-close
Sometimes I will hear Adam speak and just be blown away by the sheer volume of skills he has. I don't know what his formal education is but between wherever he went to school, his work experience, and his natural curiosity, it honestly can feel like hearing a genius casually and without arrogance talk about stuff that it's hard to imagine one person knowing all at once.
This episode, more than any other, gives an insight to the deeper levels of Adam's talents. Many times I watch a build and think that I could do it. Yes I know, it is much easier to do something once you have seen it done. It gets you past that blank wall of "how the hell am I going to do this?" But this episode makes it clear that there is no way in hell I could ever make that mold without lessons from someone like Adam. It comes as no surprise that he is something. That's why we keep watching, right?
There's probably no way in practicality this would be possible, but it would be amazing to see Adam build a motion control track and do motion control shots with these molded spaceships (and yes, I know the level of detail on toy molds wouldn't work for motion-control shots, let me dream).
Great vid, I'm self taught at molding stuff and have been making some high tensile pieces,, I've had of 43kmph on water on a 15kg board,, but no time at the mo to make things better or bigger,, anyway no rest for the oppressed,, Keep up the great work ,I've just seen you latest vid :) Life's a journey alright,
Oh, so it’s like. The hard outer shell maintains the shape, so the softer, super thin molding doesn’t get deformed any by gravity or anything. That’s clever: I might have to try that
Isn't it crazy how advances in computers, software, and manufacturing techniques completely change industries like this. This would probably just be 3D printed today...
I’m only guessing without watching the whole video but that reaction to me screams 3-D printer. That is exactly how I react when I hear what I think is a shut down.
That mold is almost 20 years old. Companies like ILM might have been experimenting with 3D printing tech back then but more likely molding or 3D milling items instead.
@@rickboivin7732 I was talking about when he Stopped talking in the middle of a sentence to assess the status of a machine running off in the distance.
@@brandonyoung-kemkes1128 oh... His reaction, not yours to molding the ship. Now I got it. I'm not sure I want to know what he's doing in there off camera.
@@rickboivin7732 and not even talking about the model or the mould strictly speaking to his reaction of silence stopping everything he was doing. That’s exactly how I react when my 3-D printer just stops or it sounds like it did.
I would really enjoy if you gave us a primer on the kind of blanket moldmaking you were describing. You've shown us how to do some other styles of molds, and I've done something similar in the past, but I would love to watch you take the time to explain the processes and basic concepts behind making a blanket mold.
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Just an observation from the show years ago. I always thought the episode where you guys walked blindfolded...trying to walk in a straight line...would have worked better on flat ground instead of a field. Always wondered why you never tested that aspect and just tested in a field.
Thank you Adam and Tested team for answering my question! It was a really cool insight and I'm feeling inspired to check out mold making myself. Cheers
Adam becomes more and more the lovely crafty grandpa that some of us lost way too early.
You should check out crafsman very similar chanel and 100% crafty grandpa
Or never had in the first place. Watching his videos make me feel far less lonely.
@@renl4123 i feel you. Mine past away 16 years ago. He was such a great woodworker and teacher.
Aha I grew up without a dad so I feel like he's been that artsy father figure I've wanted especially when going into product design and technology in school who I've probably learnt more from than my tutors aha
Dude,my grandpa more than 20 years in the skunk works and wish Adam were my grandpa.hes so frelling cool
I like how Adam pretends to think hard about which skill it was, when he is actually already 100% prepared with all the objects he needs for the rest of the video.
It’s absolutely wild to watch someone who influenced my childhood so much speak and talk about exactly what to do now, as an adult. Truly wild stuff.
I was really looking forward to a B roll
Rule No.1 Leave them wanting more. lol
No need for a B-roll at the moment if he's going to be doing a video on actually casting a new model using the mould. However if that will be its last use it would be great to see that used to make a new mould as well :D
I am still loving this format. Watching Adam in his element without over editing, we really get to see how enthusiastic he his for the craft.
I would never have thought that mold making and sewing would be comparable.
I'm fascinated about the connections Adam sees "mold making is like sewing in that way"
... What? That the connection is so clear to him that he doesn't elaborate? Fascinating
because you have to do a lot of sewing inside out and backwards
Because that’s how sewing is. All the finishing touches goes on first
I have a tea break at 3pm (UK) everyday, so the publishing time of these videos is perfect!
Isn't any time tea time in Britain? 😛
Enjoy your tea and stay safe!
"tea break" "UK" you don't say ... XD
Lmao so he uploaded it at 7am I see lol
but muh close ups :(
I loved seeing his eyes light up during his recollection, its really inspiring and heartwarming!
Love to see the process of making a mold like this
How many people paused at 3:49 to see what emergency was happening outside their home?
I am laughing hysterically because you just put it perfectly. And I thought I was the only one even though these videos years old, but I was waiting for Adam to Pause to take stock of the noise of the fire engine or something when I didn’t even hear the motor that was running in the other building or something.
Same here, and it would have been a strange and rare thing to hear a siren that close to me in my current (new to me in the past year) location!
Nah, I'm desensitized now thanks to Adam's recently squeaking chair-wheel that sounds like he's running over a small dog with it each time.
I'd really like to see the process of the casting when you get round to using that beautiful silicone mold.
Hahaha, nice Robert A Heinlein reference. "Grock"
I'd love a vid on the mold making process and casting.
Hey Adem I’m a big fan and went to one of your shows when I was about 7 and have never forget it also keep being awesome
I don’t think he reads his comments
Omg.Grocked!Yes!love the o.g. sci-fi flex!
I really hope Adam does some videos on making molds and casting. There are a few on tested, but they're for really straight forward/simple shapes
alt title: Adam_Savage123 explains what he spec'ed into during his ILM questline.
Just been dipping my feet into the word of making (thanks to my 3D printer!). Oh man, mold making sounds crazy complex...but then, doesn’t everything when you’re brand new!
This was delightful. I look forward to hopefully a 1 day build with this mold
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consternation:
amazement or dismay that hinders or throws into confusion
Its amazing when the right people, in the right place, at the right time all come together! It slightly saddens me that future generations won't have as much opportunity to learn molding due to CGI replacing so much of the high end model making that afforded this much talent to pool together. Haunted house prop making keeps the molding tradition alive but it certainly is not so precise and detailed.
Thanks for sharing. That mold is a functional work of art!
Grok....really..
Thank you Heinlein
+100 points for "grokked"
Adam is usually quite hyped to talk about stuff... but the level of excitement here :D This is great!
I work in prosthetics fabrication, oral and ocular, I do quite a bit of mold making and casting myself... I love it its so much fun my materials are different but I love the similarities... I make my own mini star destroyers now lol...
I hope he decides to remake the molds to show us how it was done.
Love it. I worked at a large packaging machinery OEM and we had a pattern maker, in the basement of the building naturally who was a master craftsman. Well before computers were even thought of. The materials used and methods maybe long gone but it was a privilege to have know him. An aside was he was a first generation Italian American and always had a great story and a stogie while he worked. You might have enjoyed meeting him. Thank you
Hey Adam love you and your craft I think what I love the most is how you choose to use your vocabulary and vernacular as well as the rhetoric involved. it always makes me want to expand a little bit on my vocabulary or get to know some of the words that you use. Coming from a poetic experience however some out of a sculpting and making experience as well
It’s beyond me how someone gan give a video like this a thumbs down. I guess some don’t appreciate a lifetime of knowledge and skills. So sad 😞
Keep up the great videos Adam 😁
3:49 that noise freaked me out!
Man he is so fun to listen to.
Thank you for another ILM memory lane episode! Personally I'd like more 'ILM' styrene model building on this channel, like the Moebius video. Perhaps you could do one with some of your ex-colleagues from ILM? From concept drawing to tangible, where (some) the real magic happens.
Gary Young taught me exactly this technique. I have used it just under 30 years now. I have no doubt he learned from the same sources.
Loved the old ILM....learned about "Augmentables" from those guys. That's a reference to using stuff meant for something else as a detail or part for a model of what you've been tasked with making. Such as the famous "gribli"
The Imperial Star Destroyer is one of the most gorgeous starship designs ever made.
Very cool!
I work in SolidWorks for my day job and I have 3D printers in my office... resulted in me drawing a 1/12 scale AT ST in full detail, held together with m3 and 1-72x5/16 hardware last winter, came out pretty awesome at about 29 or so inches in ht depending on how you pose it. Fits the 6 inch figures. Now that I have a resin printer I am going back over some of the smaller pieces with more detail, our FDM printer just couldn't do the tiny surface details I wanted.
Not a mold, I know but it is cool to see the processes used and understand how lucky I am these days that if I can draw it, I can make it on the printers.
@Zak ! --- I would certainly be interested in seeing your work.
Everyone that has a creative ideas floating around in their head should invest in a 3D printer. They are simply amazing and a necessity of life for thinkers/dreamers/designers/engineers.
10, a beautiful subject, i cast brass longcase clock spandrels and bell 20 yrs ago, made a flat spandrel frame and floor,
cast a -ve in plaster and carved the z into it, made a +ve from filo , sand cast from the +ve into split sand . Insects . I can feel your joy of casting.
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interstice:
a space that intervenes between things
(especially one between closely spaced things)
Adam you are a great story teller and have a lot of great memories to tell. Thanks for sharing.
All this mould making is fabulous. The irony is that I learned almost all of this in art college in the 70s.
Was this for Mirco Machines (if so your master was scaled down?) the 'Action Fleet' series or something else? I don't remember them making anything that size.
Some toys are sculpted at 1.5 times larger than the final toy.
3:12 in - bonus sound effect, body snatchers anybody? lol But great vid & awesome work as always!
That's awesome! You should frame it after you use it one last time
As Adam is holding up the two halves of the mold discussing how brittle they get over time, I could not help think "The lord Jehovah has given unto these 15, oy, 10 Commandments"
That's so impressive! I've always wanted to learn about mold making like that. Such a skill!
Thank you for showing us! Peace
I wish I could approach this level of excitement about my job.
so much work went into making molds like this, and now you can just 3D print the actual item in like 6 hours.
One day build: star destroyer sounds really cool
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grok:
to understand profoundly and intuitively
That was really fascinating! I have made types of retainers, mouthguards and cheek retractors using vacuforming and was only able to imagine more complex work... really cool to see the plaster and silicone work and have it explained!
I loved Galoob's MicroMachines lines, that's incredible to learn you had some part in their process! I can't wait to see the molds in action.
That was great. I have a great number of the Galoob Action Fleet Star Wars ships and I believe you worked on he Y-Wing, which I have, and is my favourite Star Wars ship. Ok, 2nd, but favourite fighter. :)
I don't know about silicone, but restoring the elasticity of latex rubber is as simple as boiling it in water for five minutes!
Noted. ❤
I'm sorry, but I started internally screaming when he said "My Tie Bomber mold" and never stopped throughout the video.
Thank you for these videos. It's nice to feel like I'm having an intelligent conversation these days. Your ability to present science and other topics is refreshing. I had a conversation once where I was asked who was my favorite mythbuster. You came to mind first but then I realized it would be impossible to pick my favorite because all of you brought something different to the show. Each of you were my favorite at any given time. I believe that's what made you so popular and continues to entertain and teach us today. P.S. Please blow something up soon. Thanks
Crazy how the upper portion of the top half of the Star Destroyer mold, looks like an R2 unit.
Heinlein reference! I grok that! Valentine Michael Smith!
I love the irony of using vaseline as an adhesive tool lol
Wow, the mold looked rough, but the closer it got to the camera the more detailed and realistic it became!!
I always wanted to see a Star Destroyer up-close
Love to see you go through the process of producing a mould adam cheers for your work inspirational
Sometimes I will hear Adam speak and just be blown away by the sheer volume of skills he has. I don't know what his formal education is but between wherever he went to school, his work experience, and his natural curiosity, it honestly can feel like hearing a genius casually and without arrogance talk about stuff that it's hard to imagine one person knowing all at once.
If I remember correctly from his book, he started art school but never finished.
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tutelage:
instruction especially of an individual
adam you need to do a video with Flitetest at one point.
like so he can see this, please.
This episode, more than any other, gives an insight to the deeper levels of Adam's talents. Many times I watch a build and think that I could do it. Yes I know, it is much easier to do something once you have seen it done. It gets you past that blank wall of "how the hell am I going to do this?" But this episode makes it clear that there is no way in hell I could ever make that mold without lessons from someone like Adam. It comes as no surprise that he is something. That's why we keep watching, right?
"Upside Down & Backwards" - Also the life of Letterpress Printing and Copper plate Engraving printing!
There's probably no way in practicality this would be possible, but it would be amazing to see Adam build a motion control track and do motion control shots with these molded spaceships (and yes, I know the level of detail on toy molds wouldn't work for motion-control shots, let me dream).
No B-roll, then.
wow I haven't done any mold making in 10+ years and I really want to do it again.
It would be interesting to see the molding of Adams TIE Bomber. An Imperial ship that is very missing in Bandai 1/72 models.
"GROCKED" - I LOVE YOU :) :) :) I thought I was the last person on Earth that said / used / knew what 'Grok' was :) :) :) :)
My man said "grokked." Havent heard that one in a while.
Great vid, I'm self taught at molding stuff and have been making some high tensile pieces,,
I've had of 43kmph on water on a 15kg board,, but no time at the mo to make things better or bigger,,
anyway
no rest for the oppressed,,
Keep up the great work ,I've just seen you latest vid :) Life's a journey alright,
Oh, so it’s like. The hard outer shell maintains the shape, so the softer, super thin molding doesn’t get deformed any by gravity or anything. That’s clever: I might have to try that
In a sense, Adam is like a photographer that doesn't have the pictures; but has kept all the negatives.
Isn't it crazy how advances in computers, software, and manufacturing techniques completely change industries like this. This would probably just be 3D printed today...
I’m only guessing without watching the whole video but that reaction to me screams 3-D printer. That is exactly how I react when I hear what I think is a shut down.
That mold is almost 20 years old. Companies like ILM might have been experimenting with 3D printing tech back then but more likely molding or 3D milling items instead.
@@rickboivin7732 I was talking about when he Stopped talking in the middle of a sentence to assess the status of a machine running off in the distance.
@@brandonyoung-kemkes1128 oh... His reaction, not yours to molding the ship. Now I got it. I'm not sure I want to know what he's doing in there off camera.
@@rickboivin7732 and not even talking about the model or the mould strictly speaking to his reaction of silence stopping everything he was doing. That’s exactly how I react when my 3-D printer just stops or it sounds like it did.
My most valuable skilled gained: patience.
Wow things seem so much easier today with the advent of 3d printing!
Were these ships you were molding 'patterns' for the toy manufacturer to reference when die casting their product?
1:34 Grok? As in Heinlein's Stranger in a strange land "grok"?
That is so awesome it's ridiculous
Wow, keys upon keys for mold making. That's the real deal there. How great it would be to even just be an unpaid schlub boy intern there at ILM! haha
I was just thinking of what question I would ask if I was to do your patreon thing and I look on my phone 3 hours later and its right there
You can never go wrong with Mike Jobe
That is a nice Star Destroyer, shame if they never ended up making it.
You should do a comparison of your mold to the Fantasy Flight Games ISD model for Star Wars Armada game.
Potential one day build? I’ve only ever made molds the cheep way, silicone cocking, and plaster Paris.
Cocking?
Holy shit never thought I'd catch a new episode but damn 5 minutes ago
Hi Adam, just wondering if you still have the JONES/SAVAGE hat and could you wear it in one of your videos cause that's the SAVAGE I remember
Re-mold it, digital scan it, and upload the STL to thingiverse. This is the way.
Anyone who still does this: Do you recommend applying baby powder inside the mold to wick the polyurethane into the details?
I feel like Adam knows every tool and how to make pretty much everything.
Huh. Grew up with action fleet ships and had no idea they made a Star Destroyer (or rather, were going to make one).
I would really enjoy if you gave us a primer on the kind of blanket moldmaking you were describing. You've shown us how to do some other styles of molds, and I've done something similar in the past, but I would love to watch you take the time to explain the processes and basic concepts behind making a blanket mold.
I want a workshop like that
I wonder if you could put magnets in the silicone to register it to the mother mold? Might be worth looking into.