"Slant6" (slant-6)
07/23/2016 at 10:25 • Filed to: None
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"Slant6" (slant-6)
07/23/2016 at 10:25 • Filed to: None | 1
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I made this concept render for a project and think it might be good for my portfolio if I actually made it and had some photos and tactile feedback. I was thinking just melt some cheap bars of soap and put food coloring in it while it’s melted then put it in a rectangle mold. Then once I have a colorful brick I can make some brick red soap and dip the cold color brick and have it be layered like I want. Then shrink wrap and labels are easy.
Any flaws with my plan? I’m open to all suggestions and feedback.
Also I’m going back on the whole 37oz. bar of soap thing. Way too big. Would be like using a full Nalgene water bottle to wash yourself.
I’d like to do a batch of 10, give one to my professor, one to my boss who tolerated me leaving early a few times to work on this class, some to my friends and one for myself for portfolio.
Wobbles the Mind
> Slant6
07/23/2016 at 10:31 |
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All I know about soap comes from a movie I can’t talk about. Secondly, I can’t talk about said movie.
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Slant6
> Wobbles the Mind
07/23/2016 at 10:33 |
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Do you have any experience using soap?
LongbowMkII
> Slant6
07/23/2016 at 10:34 |
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It has something to do with lye and stealing cellulite from dumpsters behind plastic surgeons.
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Slant6
> LongbowMkII
07/23/2016 at 10:38 |
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I’m already good at dumpster diving.
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GRS1
> Slant6
07/23/2016 at 10:41 |
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I’d do it the other way around. Cast the exterior layer with a plug, then pull the plug and pour in the interior. Then seal off the remaining open end.
More steps, but I think you’d get better exterior finish. Dipping seems like it’d give uneven surfaces and rounded over corners.
Also, according to google, melt and pour soap is a thing. Seems cheap enough that I’d just start out there vs. trying to melt regular soap.
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Slant6
> GRS1
07/23/2016 at 10:46 |
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Bricks have uneven surfaces and rounded corners thought. And wouldn’t filling it in melt the exterior?
Thanks, I’ll think some more about this. You’ve raised some good points.
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Wobbles the Mind
> Slant6
07/23/2016 at 10:50 |
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I’m into gels, I’m quite bourgie. Bar soup makes me uneasy.
Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
> Slant6
07/23/2016 at 10:53 |
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I swear this was a part of a movie.
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Slant6
> Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
07/23/2016 at 10:55 |
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Making soap?
Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch
> Slant6
07/23/2016 at 11:00 |
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Melting soap can make really awful smells. Just be aware things could go very wrong.
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GRS1
> Slant6
07/23/2016 at 11:01 |
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Yeah, you definitely don’t want it to come out as a perfect rectangular solid. But they do generally have fairly flat faces and somewhat sharp corners.
You could always pull a silicone mold off an actual brick. As long as none of the holes in the surface have bad overhangs, seems like it’d come out alright.
Don’t know if it’d melt the exterior, but it seems like you’d have the same problem dipping it. Either way, throw it in the freezer first and cross your fingers? Or I guess you could cast them separately, and just slide the interior in.
brianbrannon
> Slant6
07/23/2016 at 11:02 |
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If you want to stain all of them red then yes this is a good idea
OPPOsaurus WRX
> Slant6
07/23/2016 at 11:03 |
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Bricks aren’t rounded. You method sound good. At the end use the roughest sandblaster you can find and give it an over all consistent texture and square corners. Use colored soap insted of food coloring
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Slant6
> OPPOsaurus WRX
07/23/2016 at 11:07 |
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By rounded I meant weathered:
The kind of brick you’d pick up of the street and throw at a statue of a dictator.
Good call on colored soap.
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Slant6
> brianbrannon
07/23/2016 at 11:08 |
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Did you see the rendering? All of them being red is what I’m going for.
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Slant6
> GRS1
07/23/2016 at 11:10 |
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I was thinking with dipping it it would melt and mold to the inside and after a certain point it wouldn’t penetrate anymore and just attach to the red that’s already there.
2 piece is also an interesting idea, I’d be worried about breaking the shell though.
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> Slant6
07/23/2016 at 11:31 |
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First you need to meet a shady, smooth-talking guy on an airplane. Then you have to leave the gas on in your home with the pilot light out long enough for combustion to occur. Then you must go live with shady dude in his dilapidated mansion where he will make the soap making process clear. You may end up with a scar on the back of one of your hands.
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Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
> Slant6
07/23/2016 at 11:37 |
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Yeah. It wasn’t a main focus of the movie but......
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OPPOsaurus WRX
> Slant6
07/23/2016 at 11:44 |
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Actually use food coloring. I want to see what color you come out of the shower as
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GRS1
> Slant6
07/23/2016 at 11:48 |
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I just feel like you’re going to get better finish results molding the exterior vs. trying to post-process it into a brick. Thinking about it more, if you really want as thin a shell as in your renders, dipping might be the only way. Just comes down to a trade-off between shell thickness and surface finish. Or...dip it, then just heat it to the point of softening and press a negative of a brick surface texture into it. As long as you don’t go through the shell, should work ok.
Yes, 2-piecing it solves any possible melting issues, but at a structural cost. I guess you could remelt it after assembly to try and consolidate the two pieces. Seems to be straying way out of KISS territory, so I think 2-piece would be my last resort after everything else failed.
Clown Shoe Pilot
> Slant6
07/23/2016 at 12:02 |
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*y’all
It’s a pet peeve misspelling.
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Slant6
> Clown Shoe Pilot
07/23/2016 at 12:15 |
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Honestly most people like me that say it don’t care how it’s spelled. I’ll try and change it in the future.
It’s also weird because people think it’s such a southern thing to do, but I really can’t say “you guys” or anything else with out it sounding weird. I don’t really consider myself southern. Yeah I drive a pick up truck, and yes I say y’all, and yes Krispy Kreme is better than Dunkin, but I study design and listen to the Strokes.
The south is a part of me but not a part I openly embrace. I actually struggle to have a cultural identity. If I’m not southern what am I? My passport may say New Jersey as my state of birth, but I’m definitely not a Jersey boy.
Can of worms in my head just opened up.
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Clown Shoe Pilot
> Slant6
07/23/2016 at 13:16 |
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Old man rant ahead. Please be so kind as to step back off of my lawn.
This applies to more than just spelling.
Just because you don’t care doesn’t mean you’re not wrong. I’d recommend you care. If you don’t care and you do it wrong consistently, what happens when you need to do it right? Will you even be able to recognize the error? If you can recognize the error, why would you ever leave it done wrong?
“What does it matter?” you might ask. This won’t apply to you directly, but when I’m reviewing resumes and interviewing for paid technology internships at COTA in a week or two, I’m definitely looking for stuff like this. If a candidate sends me something that is going to be my FIRST impression of them and it’s riddled with errors, what am I supposed to think? No matter what I’m supposed to think, I’m GOING to think “NEXT!” because I’m looking for people that will be working on the biggest event in Texas in 2016 (an F1 race weekend, with a Taylor Swift concert after quali on Saturday) and we won’t have time for incompetence.
I’ll give you half points for “try and change” though.
My old man rant is concluded. You can step on my lawn again.
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Slant6
> Clown Shoe Pilot
07/23/2016 at 13:24 |
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You may have misunderstood what I was saying. Or I might not have been clear enough. Most likely the later.
I do care, and I fixed it. I’ll try to correct myself in the future.
Originally I said most people like me, as in people that say y’all don’t care how it’s spelled. I’m taking yokles, they don’t care. I do however, and I do understand the importance of getting things right. Although I do put more effort into resumes and the like than I do here. Maybe though if I practiced more here I’d be less likely to make a mistake on a resume.
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brianbrannon
> Slant6
07/23/2016 at 15:18 |
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Food coloring will turn people and tubs red if they use the soap
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Clown Shoe Pilot
> Slant6
07/23/2016 at 16:55 |
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Ahh, indeed. We are in violent agreement. Carry on!
TFen
> Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
07/24/2016 at 00:17 |
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Hey now, don’t forget rule #1
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Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
> TFen
07/24/2016 at 00:47 |
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In what way am I not being excellent?
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