Ask Adam: Cardboard Projects
In this Ask Adam Savage, WildKatt1 asks “You’ve said cardboard is a gateway drug to making. Do you ever find yourself doing a cardboard project either as a standalone or a precursor to something bigger?” Here’s Adam’s answer.
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Another great example of how far cardboard can take you is project binky at bad obsession motorsports. Basically an entire car designed by first making templates out of cardboard, a process they like to call CAD (cardboard aided design).
Adam: What are some of your strategies in coping with tedium in a project with lots of repetition?
Thanks!
How do you clean your costumes after a Con?
Costumes are rarely machine washable, but after sweating in them for hours it would be nice to freshen them up
are those maker boxes still available if so how do you order them
Sorry, they are no longer available. It was a limited guest curation.