Detours and Delays

More Signs! 

yeah I know the kerning is off. don't have any progress pictures but more or less the same process as the Mule Sign.

Thanks to a lot of help we got the Old truck running and moved. it wont be ready for 2016 Wasteland though.

The Yurt is coming along. The Seamstress' Machine decided to retire itself 3/4 of the way done, it's replacement is on the job!

20 Mules Sign

I had an old piece of wood in the garage that I had cut into the shield shape a long time ago for a forgotten reason.

First Coat of paint

weathering the wood

second coat of paint, thinned

Working on the placement of the stencil, printed out slightly too large

after finding good placement, outlined with pencil and filled with black paint

stencil was cut for the skull and filled in with unthinned white paint

second side before filling in the details

both mules completed along with the stencil for the eyes and nose

The 20 was painted with stencil, the red star was drawn and painted by hand. 

the black parts of the mules were drybrushed with white paint to make them look older. 

Skinned alive

The Ring and Roof Poles are now mated together. they're held together with Pins made from 1/2"
EMT Conduit with washers welded to the ends.

Currently the outer skin is being sewn. added two half-panels of yellow canvas as we came up a little short. The Yellow is a nice contrast color and shows our support of another tribe for Wasteland Weekend.

When at first you don't succeed

Make it out of Metal.

 We're keeping the door

 Ordered some 120 degree pipe connectors from Creative Shelters in 3/4" conduit size

 each wall section is 6', the Conduit comes in 10' lengths

 Center ring made out of leftover conduit bent to 60 degrees

roof poles before finishing making the ring.

so in a few weeks time we accomplished what we could not in wood. Our Desert environment just wouldn't let us do it in wood. lesson learned.

Tried to put up the walls today. Failure! One of the khana broke.

Very discouraged. Back to square one. Damnit.

Feeling Blue

Here are the three walls or Khana. finished today in a rainstorm. we're trying to get this finished by the end of the month. Yikes!

not pictured are purchased metal cable, turnbuckles, shackles and eye bolts. guess I should buy some pretty blue paracord for lashing the walls together.

see you next update!

A door Able

Got our door made, out of an old room door with a section cut out to make it a Dutch Door

inner latch

 sliding the nails into the pre-drilled holes

so the door is done, the wall panels are nearly done.

Tanks everyone!

It's raining gas tanks. The Family Luck strikes again!
Pops talked to his buddy (always have an old mechanic on your team, they almost ALWAYS know a guy and if that guy doesn't have it he knows a guy. there's a chain of guys to know) and showed up this afternoon with a tank out of a chevy truck, it's solid, no holes and great patina for the truck.
the funny bit is, Hub also got a guy at work to give us a tank. So Tanks everyone!

now if some 8 lug old ford pattern rims and tires will fall out of the sky

You don't really wanna Yurt me

the first panel we made just didn't come out right, due to frustrations and mismeasure,

 slats laid out to be painted. drilled 9" apart starting 3" from the top

 trying to paint with a paint sprayer. didn't go as well as hoped.

the weather's been quite cold so they didn't dry very fast. 

In other News

 We got a truck

 ol' family farm truck, the keys naturally are LONG Gone.
1969 Ford F250 Ranger.

built in San Jose California, Owned by the ranch next door, sold to the family. used around the ranch until 2007, then it sat.

 So we drill through the Ignition tumbler so it will release from the housing so a new tumbler with new keys could be put in.

Two Brothers going through the fuel system. A layer of a tar-like substance was coating the bottom of the tanks and clogging the pickup lines so no fuel was getting to the engine. It did turnover though.

Annoyance #1 8-lug old-Ford style rims. awesome and Original but 16.5 tires aren't used much anymore so the original rims are near useless.

Annoyance #2 the old owner didn't keep up on a near-decade of registration fees, current estimation is $1,077.00 not counting transfer fees. 

so should we jump over those hurdles we'll have a glorious Wasteland Truck.