Wesley Treat | Making a Tin Can Submarine @WesleyTreat | Uploaded November 2016 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
A year or two ago, a couple bought a riveted rocket ship I made and hung it in their son's room as a nightlight. He loved it so much, they contacted me to create a custom submarine in the same style for their soon-to-arrive baby girl.
Notes:
▶ Wet-sanding the aluminum with a vibrating palm sander gives it a nice, even, satin finish.
▶ The latex caulk makes a nice adhesive for this kind of thing because it gives me plenty of time to reposition pieces if I need to, and it fills the gaps created by overlapping panels.
▶ What I cite as frosted acrylic was clear acrylic treated with some 400-grit sandpaper and the frosted-glass spray that I also used on the magnifier lens.
▶ I picked up the propellers at Aero Hobbies in Lewisville, TX. (Great place for RC hobbies. Check them out.)
▶ For the curious, there were 221 rivets.
Tools and materials featured in this video:
▶ General Tools #4 Circle Cutter: amzn.to/2gGjb33
▶ General Tools Automatic Center Punch: amzn.to/2htnN9B
▶ Rust-Oleum Frosted Glass Spray: amzn.to/2huXYGo
▶ LEDwholesalers Warm White LED Light Strip: amzn.to/2hLPkCo
▶ DAL Props Bullnose Propeller: amzn.to/2hrrOOM
A year or two ago, a couple bought a riveted rocket ship I made and hung it in their son's room as a nightlight. He loved it so much, they contacted me to create a custom submarine in the same style for their soon-to-arrive baby girl.
Notes:
▶ Wet-sanding the aluminum with a vibrating palm sander gives it a nice, even, satin finish.
▶ The latex caulk makes a nice adhesive for this kind of thing because it gives me plenty of time to reposition pieces if I need to, and it fills the gaps created by overlapping panels.
▶ What I cite as frosted acrylic was clear acrylic treated with some 400-grit sandpaper and the frosted-glass spray that I also used on the magnifier lens.
▶ I picked up the propellers at Aero Hobbies in Lewisville, TX. (Great place for RC hobbies. Check them out.)
▶ For the curious, there were 221 rivets.
Tools and materials featured in this video:
▶ General Tools #4 Circle Cutter: amzn.to/2gGjb33
▶ General Tools Automatic Center Punch: amzn.to/2htnN9B
▶ Rust-Oleum Frosted Glass Spray: amzn.to/2huXYGo
▶ LEDwholesalers Warm White LED Light Strip: amzn.to/2hLPkCo
▶ DAL Props Bullnose Propeller: amzn.to/2hrrOOM
