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I can understand your anxiety over what the “proper shade” of the base color needs to be. If you go to any military modeling forum, you will come across any variety of arguments on what’s the correct Olive Drab used on a Sherman tank or if a particular ME-109 had a specific RLM color on a tail flash. And despite there being paint codes and FS numbers to go by, you will get variations within the same fleet of vehicles even if freshly painted from the same paint batch. That doesn’t even take into account the effects of sunlight exposure, rain and other weathering factors. You’ve done a great job making it look the part and I applaud the work you did on this armor. It looks fantastic.
as someone who builds both model kits and model railroads...oh god don't get me started. why my favorite railroad decided to pick a color about 2-3 shades darker than standard Pullman green for its coaches I'll never know, but its annoying to no end.
If you look at model paints intended for use on models of military aircraft, watercraft, and land vehicles, you'll quickly discover that there are at least 1001 different shades of green and even more for tan and brown. Seriously, the amount of effort and detail some of these model makers go to is extraordinary, to the point it's almost frightening.
@@sawyerawr5783 the Arkansas/Missouri local passenger line (that still runs a few coaches down to Van Buren from Springdale AR, among other routes) did something very similar. Such a pretty green but kinda hard to find.
One day builds have slowly gone from: "Build in a day!" to "Build in a day's worth of shop hours!" to "Able to watch on RUclips in a single day!" and i am here for it, lol
I love Adam's explanation of how it feels when you're in the groove. I feel that when painting minis. My mind can wonder and I always come out of that groove feeling great!
not necessarily. the more recent 'digital' camo patterns do appear complex but really are simple geometric shapes thats designed to throw off our brains. but in truth the more simpler, like those from desert storm to ww2 era work and still work just fine for most environments.
Hi Adam, Ex-British Mitary here. Now I understand that my comment is now redundant, seeing that you have finished the armour now, but I wanted to offer a hint/tip to camo. There are a few rules to applying camo that help a lot. Ok in a camo pack there are black, brown and green. So, green ist the base. Then black is used to break up the lines that you see immediately with your eye. Brown is then used to create shadow, where shadow shouldn't be. And green is used to merge. I just thought I would give my 5 cents to the equation. I loved the video!
Great job! My son and I went to the 2016 San Diego Comic Con dressed as Colonial Marines. It was the 20th anniversary and they had a panel with all the original cast, I got to go up and ask them a question.James Cameron liked my out fit and Bill Paxton signed my helmet with "Game Over"! Wonderful experience, we actually did the pepakura method and overlaid it with fiberglass. For the helmet we attached all those pieces to the shell of an old steel us army helmet.
As a Marine mechanic, in the seventies, we went from the all forest green to 4 color camo in the late seventies. I painted a number of our vehicles from jeeps to 5 ton 6x6's to trailers. Now there us an actual pattern to it, not just spray and go, to follow and it is inspected. There is a technical manual, a 2'x3' book, with patterns for every piece of equipment. The 4 colors were Forest Green (the major color), field drab (brown), black and sand.
Enjoying sharing a moment with Adam, separated by time and space, but connected in creativity; these kinds of videos are excellent company for drawing 👌💕
At 42:10 you are referring to what the Japanese call 'Mushin' or 'no mind', it is considered a Zen like state of being at peace with ones self. In sports its called being "In the Zone" the world melts away and the only thing between you and It is your task at hand. It can be a difficult state to achieve but boy howdy once you get there everything can come together really quick on what you are doing at the time. I would get there when sparring back when I did boxing and it was like seeing everything and nothing all at the same time. It really is hard to explain.
Software developers love finding their way to the zone too. Unfortunately the number of meetings and emails that require attention usually keep us out of it.
Musicians, artists, writers. Any creative work, really. I want to describe it as the difference between trying to walk while everything is hanging off of you and impeding your movements and weighing you down, vs. the feeling of each thing gently releasing and falling away. Leaving you alone, complete, at ease, in control, and speeding along toward your goal.
Not just in sports - artists and writers also get into the same zone, we tend to call it "flow" state, where everything just "flows" without intent, without conscious effort, without any perception of passage of time... People with ASD/Autism/Asperger's/ADD/ADHD spectrum consciousness are especially skilled at entering Flow State. Many neurologists have observed it in our brainwaves. In Neurodivergent people on that spectrum, it's called Hyperfocus. (In all honesty, ADHD/ADD shouldn't really be labelled as an attention "deficit" problem. It's more "We struggle to aim our hyper-focused laser beam of attention to what YOU want us attendant to, when you want it. Instead, we'll be piercingly attentive to 15 other minute details in the environment." But that doesn't fit onto an acronym neatly, or sound like it needs therapy and medication. )
You really can! Step one to be good at something is to be bad at it. Currently doing that myself as I try make a workbench out of wood from home Depot. Never done woodworking before. Read some stuff, watch some, have a go! 👍 I shall be cheering for you from this RUclips comment 📣
I am an engineer for the DOD and I am sitting at home working on my government computer doing my work and mostly just listening to the wisdom and witticism coming from Adam on my phone. It helps me be focused and creative at the same time.
Suffering with this never ending cold and virus and watching Adam during sleepless nights has been comfort viewing !!!! Love the channel and very relaxing.
Beautiful! I built an Incinerator unit from a kit back in '96 and have always wanted to do a pulse rifle and armor... The pulse rifle may just come to be a Hasbro re-paint, and the armor looks like years of my life if I tackle it...
Watching Adam struggle with this process in this video was really a boon to me as I was struggling with my own shading and colouring issues I was having with a drawing I was doing as I watched. Everyone hits that point where they just aren't sure if they've got things right and might've ruined a project and must shift into a "recovery mode," even Adam Savage. It was nice to share that struggle at the same time as him.
I deeply appreciate that the mistake with the back panel was left in. The occasional reminder that you don't have to be perfect to build such an awesome prop is handy.
That camo is super unique and was created entirely for the film. I think the original BDUs that the Colonial Marines wore were based on South African military camo. I might be wrong about that. It's not the typical pattern that you expect, which makes it way cooler. Love this build. Side note, who else ordered the Nerf M41A pulse rifle blaster replica? Guilty.
I am rewatching this episode. I just want to say I have my list on autoplay most of the time while I do work. I love hearing what you are making at the start of the video as I dont normally see the title or thumbnail. Love your builds and hope to show you some of the work I make in the future with your influence through my childhood :)
I happen to love these long rambling videos. I'm a custom picture framer, and I like to listen to Adam while I work. Yes, I do feel like we got to spend this time together . Thanks.
My x-husband camoed our hunting bows. Pick a few medium sized leafs. Spray whatever “ background” color you prefer . Then hold the leaf randomly over spots and lightly spray over and around the leaf. Repeat several times, change color, repeat until the object you are painting is covered as you like. This is obviously a forest camo but it is amazing looking and simple. Fern leaves work great too. You can also use flat rocks or bark etc as where you don’t put one layer/color. Where the color is not, just a natural shape is, with a little practice, works great. Just a fyi that we used successfully. Take colors from where the camo is hiding you. The colors come from any area of nature you are trying to hide in. They aren’t specific, like snow camo is shades found in snow areas, desert storm: sand snd rock colors etc etc
ODBs are some of my favourite comfort shows and I really needed this one today. and the little ramble about being in Flow state was just straight to my heart. So so grateful to Adam for sharing his light in all the ways he does ✨
They make me a bit antsy to make stuff, I've always had this dream of making a huge terrain for war gaming. Then I remember I don't have the tools or anything, also I don't even play war games (I don't know anyone who plays). I just love that stuff though. It's really great to see someone who has all the stuff they need for a goal and to accomplish that goal though. Especially when the person has such an interesting personality and an engaging way of speaking. Not to mention the second hand enthusiasm Adam brings to the table, like a puppy, you can't help but get excited when you see how excited they are.
@@RoosterFloyd enthusiasm and creation really are infectious!! i love watching people make things of all kinds. it's beautiful to see someone sharing their passion. and hey you could start small! maybe try making small dioramas in the style you like? even something inside a shoebox, how cool would that be :) it's better to start small than never at all, cause who knows where it can lead you! best of luck friend 🌸
@@RoosterFloyd and you'd be amazed how much rad stuff you can build using trash and recycling!! those are some of my favourite materials to use cause they're free, and low pressure if you make mistakes there's no guilt cause it was gonna be trash anyway and at least you had fun & learned ! ✨
@@LemonadeOnMars Yeah that's what I've heard, just get out there and do it, you won't be a pro but you have to start, it's not something you can learn without hands on failures. I actually had an idea for a miniatures game involving sentient trash bots. Like they are made out of whatever random bits of machinery and metal they can find. At the center is a little core that is the actual mechanical being, but they have the ability to make shift it's limbs and stuff out of whatever they find. I like models that are wacky and disproportionate.
At one point Adam rambled on about the feeling he had when working and connecting to the task. I believe that this is a thread of commonality that all makers, artists, and builders experience. As humans, we are born with what we can use to create. I felt this extension from the past when I made a suit of chain-mail. It also takes place when I paint and sculpt.
Hello Adam, I've noticed you have used the RUclips video for reference of the armour that I bought some time ago. In the last couple of years me and a friend re painted the skull and fixed the damage on the fiberglass. We also used black fireplace grate blackner on the armour to give it that worn dirty used look. You did a grand job on yours! The webbing is a mare to get right especially the shoulder section. I have photos of the finished armour if your interested.
My most prized convention possession is signed concept photos of the CM armor by Terry English. Absolute honour meeting him and seeing his work on display.
The Alien helmet was is great memory for me from my teen years. I have to admit I was pretty high when I saw this in 1979. It scared me and fascinated me at the same time. Thank you Adam for your content.
There seems to be two channels I keep coming back to and it's Adam Savage's Teste and Potholer54. The first one for a relaxing time entertaining the process of something being made and getting some ideas, the latter one for very well done and scientifically accurate takes on alot of things, debunks of conspiracies or misinformation and more. Both of you have something relly special so cherrish that.
Hey if you try to do camouflage remember what the purpose of it is. One prime such purpose is to eliminate shapes we register as human so you need to break things off such that it doesn't register as a body with two arms, two legs and a head, that's the tricky part. The same goes for face camo, you want to distort the face such that there isn't symmetry there that one would register.
We didn't take any pictures, but back in the late '90s, some friends and I made a set of Colonial Marines armor for a paintball team. We used airbrushes and stencils for the camo, then a black candy coat, and finally a matte clear coat. Then Mike put on each set of armor and rolled around on pavement for a few minutes, while we hit him with hockey sticks. Then after a light cleaning, we dry-brushed silver paint in all the scratches. It looked really good. I found that when painting life-size camo, it looks best if you paint it how one would probably paint it for a real production line.
Regardless of your thinking- thank you for making this content, no matter what time you may see it. You rock and I'm stoked you bring your visions to reality so more people can be inspired to create. We need that more and more these days... I hope folks realize that they can do and create more based off of this episode. It's still rare to have folks do things on their own.
I crocheted my Jawa costume. SO MUCH BROWN. Most of it was just a shapeless brown robe, and as you say, the tedium becomes meditative. But you focus on the finished product, and it gives you time to mull over how to make the tricky bits.
Im a full-time military model builder when you use humbrol paint mix it and mix it some more its better to use there thinner its a hotter thinner it also takes a long time to gas off and dry if you can get some mr.color leveling thinner it works amazing on enamel paints and will dry a lot faster but for what you build try and use Acrylic paint for your base paints use enamel paints for washes and weathering and filters use a Cheap enamel thinner to make your washes some of the off the shelf Mineral spirits aren't hot enough to break down the paints I mix Mineral spirits and enamel thinner to make My weathering washes And filters. BUT You'd be better off to convert over to mr.color products or Tamiya paint for Airbrushing AT A RATE OF 50 50 FOR AIRBRUSHING .most people don't use Enamel paints for base paint anymore but only for Weathering you will get much better results.
I got to work on that film! the Spectral goggles, big camera/spotlight, and weapons were designed and built by WETA. they make the best stuff! I think Adam has some stuff from that film.
@@garymurphy5133 my part in it was several months designing what the soldiers would see when wearing the googles, as well as design and animation of the double screens on the top of the big guns. In the name of time and budget, they ended up dropping the augmented reality concept. It was supposed to help them have better situational awareness indications stuck to things in view. And at some point someone added more video game like stuff all over the screen… the director didn’t want that (at first) but… whatever. :/ that’s the way of things some times, cutting room floor or last minute changes required by some top level executive in the process that just wanted it. Oh well…
The upside down sortimo is more my style although you could put the armor on and roll in the screws as a weathering technique. I’m sure that’s why they are on the floor
Camouflage paint is basically a mix of soft edge and hard edge overlapping shapes, mostly earth colors with light and dark shades. The soft edge shape will give the effect of distance because it looks out of focus compared to the hard edge shape, which will trick the eye by creating the distance differential. The “distance” separated shapes make the camouflaged item’s actual shape indistinguishable.
flow state is when the challenge is meeting your demand of it. when you seek fulfillment from your actions and you achieve it and are rewarded with more action, and this feedback loop of success and challenge is what people call the flow state. you'll find it in track runners, artists, people just playing difficult video games, musicians, and more. it's when you stop thinking about the steps because they are natural, and the work itself is not boring which is the opposite of flow state, it's cyclical engagement with focus.
i like how adam basically has become thanks to all the armors and suits he's made, the most epic cross over character to ever exist ever. I just love this idea of Adam as both, a colonial marine, one of the astronauts from 2001 a space odyssey, hellboy, No Face, Iron Man (specifically mark 1), etc. and it's all the films/comics/shows/anime we all know and love, but it's just depictions of adam in place of the original characters. I love it so much and it makes me smile to think about it
I KNOW this feeling of which you speak. 44:09. I've had it a few times. Along with the connectedness I feel a sense of well-being, safety, and satisfaction, and I smile. The odd thing for me is my brain is not correctly processing what my eyes see. I see shapes and textures, but I cannot tell you which shape or object is closer to me, and which is further away, or how they relate to one another. I can switch them back and forth. I see clarity but not context. I recognize my situation and realize I can quickly bring myself out of it, and back to reality, but I REALLY DON'T WANT TO. I finally do it most begrudgingly, because I don't know when or if I'll ever be back there. Maybe years, maybe never.
For those trying to find a pot of the discontinued Humbrol Brown Bess, The Scale Modellers Supply in Australia took a pot and colour matched their own version called PL219 Blaster Brown. Outside of Australia there's stockists in USA, UK, Singapore and NZ.
I recently built a weathered broadsword and vambraces with my eight year old. The final additions to his Halloween costume. The Tested videos were the catalyst for these endeavors. Fun as a family and kids using their hands to build. An amazing experience. Thank you for your passion and insight.
An episode of Adam just rambling about nothing in particular while making something awesome would be perfect. I'm here because I think Adam is an amazingly interesting human being!
I will say, making spray templates for camoflage seems like the perfect use case for a Cricut, or other brand of vinyl plotter/cutter. Just find the appropriate camo pattern, trace over it in a vector graphics program, then run the plotter. Once it's done cutting, you can just peel and stick the vinyl onto whatever needs painting for whichever colors need masking.
The shoulder mounting was a definite no No NO moment for me. Strap that armor up like you would Lorica Segmentata. Or look at your Excalibur plate. Strap the pauldrons in the middle of the upper edge to the shoulders of the breastplate. That allows the best movement and keeps the point where you did fasten it free to move as you move your arms.
Yeah i was so disappointed to see him do that to the shoulders. After painting and building USCM armour sets for clients for years i was yelling at the screen at that point! Really hoping he revisits this at some point and corrects them.
At minute 18:20 I saw the flickering dim lights in the background and thought, do you ever think that you have ghosts in the shop. Or unexplained noises sounds or objects moved around the savage cave. Love watching the one day builds great content.
I think that feeling @44:15 is when practice and experience replace all conscious decision making during an (creative in my experiences) endeavor. Letting yourself produce work without the (as Adam said) ego worrying about the outcome. It isn't even shared only with the people that see the video, but anyone who sees the product for it's lifetime.
One way I've seen camo patterns applied is using a hydrographic method. Tank of water, spray paints into the water, dip the part you want to apply the paint to. Randomises the design effectively
Adam. I used to be part of an Aliens costuming group the UKCM. We had connections to Terry English and the world's largest Aliens prop collector Harry Harris. So to build our suits we used SpatCave plastic armour (far more accurate than Golden Armour) in green (his green is lighter, because the weathering will sort that) and then painted them with the humbrol paints as you did. And you end up with what looks like cartoon armour! And very matt, which is not what the originals looked like?!?! When I did it I'd spent so long creating a Hudson like armour I nearly cried. But then I used the magic weathering solution. And it's what Terry uses... Stovax black grate polish. At first it seemed like a horror show, too dark. But as I trusted the process it just works! And I had pictures taken at an event where Harry's collection was on display against the real Hudson armour, and even Terry stated that you could hardly tell the difference.
Going to see a 35th-anniversary screening of Aliens at a local theater tomorrow night. It has been at the top of my list for my all-time favorite movies since 1986.
Adam I know it's an extra step but it might have saved you a lot of struggle and issue. You could have got yourself a vinyl wrap printed in the style of camo you wanted and use it as a mask after you have wrapped your items cut out the colors with an exacto and then paint them. Where the vinyl wrap is nothing but a mask that helps guide you in this matter. And then you can add all your effects to the paint. There's no problem with free hand but it may have been easier. And you're off on your colors. Deep Forest isn't necessarily the base olive drab should be. Deep Forest is actually the dark green blobs of the actual camo. And possibly burnt umber for the brown.
I was at Exeter (UK) Comic-Con today and Terry English was there with one of his original armour sets! Was awesome to have watched this last night and saw an original today.
The best way to make camouflage colors to work is to mix a little of the background (or base) color into everything... it "unifies" it. Then tying it all together with a black or brown wash works even better and can be more subtle
I love the random dive into philosophy lol. Philosopher Adam FTW! It does make your videos more real and interesting to watch. Anyone can make a "how to paint prop armor" video, but not anyone can make one that I'll actually watch all the way through. Well done sir.
At 1:12:18 I laughed WAY too hard at him pulling off the stencil and going "That looks greeeeaaat!", while admiring the stencil itself rather than the freshly sprayed helmet hahahah
A great weather technique that I have seen is using a straight file because it’s guaranteed to only hit the high spots. Another alternative is a long hard sanding block but the grit sand pager that you use is up to you.
I just finished my colonial marine armor, got my kit from chef’s creations in the UK. I understand your problem with the shoulder plates sliding on the sides. I was thinking of using magnets to keep them in place, since i want my kit be easy to dismantle for transport. Would live to one day do a troop with you in this kit. I had to look at a ton of references for the straps and attachments, so hard to figure everything out. Gonna do my first comiccon in Quebec this weekend, pretty excited. You did an awesome job !
I think it's crazy how either reality imitated art or the costume designer was really future proof as the helmet with a built in headset and a camera on the side is pretty popular with special forces of today and they thought of it in 1985.
I think that the people engineering real gear were often fans of sci-fi and were inspired to make it work in real life. Same with like video phones and such.
I think, more interestingly, the creators of sci-fi are just good at guessing the next logical evolution of technology. Take Gene Roddenberry and Star Trek, for example. Most things we have now, tablets, touch screens, vr, fiber optic cables, but a lot of that is really just him guessing the next step. Tv's will probably get thinner, phones will have tv-like screens, you'll be able to press buttons on the screen so you can see more, fill a whole room with screens and you can project images in full scale, we'll find a way to conduct electricity that isn't with metal. And all of this stuff is still being predicted in sci-fi now. Just look at Interstellar and the way it was able to create a nearly perfect visual of a blackhole before we were ever able to photograph one.
when you paint on something and the first color looks great, please use a test panel and spray the first color. once dry, apply your other color choice and see what happens. repeat on other extra colors before you do the real project. This helps the trial & error.
When you describe that kind of flow state, I know exactly what you're talking about. It's mediative. Intensely focused, but unfocused at the same time. That's what came to mind while you were talking about it anyway. As far as the difficulty being random is concerned, I recognized it from a young age age started practicing randomness, especially when drawing things like trees and foliage. Nature operates on fixed principles and mechanisms, but they propagate in different ways according to the environment. Crystals form in very specific ways, but no two of them are alike. Trying to replicate that in art is an interesting exercise, because there's both uniformity and chaos at play at the same time. Too much randomness looks just as wrong to the eye as not enough. Again, just my take on it.
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Hey, great video but where's the link for the BDUs?
It's a form and state of meditation. It's the zone.
Sticky backed Velcro would have held the shoulder straps in place.
@@vanderpike yeah...i was looking for it aswell....
Same, looking for BDU link.
Day off. One day build. Over an hour. Exactly what I needed!
Same boat dude! Time to watch Adam and catch up on projects!
Just what I need to lissen to on a drive in de car .
In stat of just boring radio station all the time
I’m running at 1.5x speed, just so that I can try to listen to the whole thing in a shorter time.
@@shubinternet why not 1,5 slower speed so u can lissen longer to his beauty full work . And craft man ship
@@grolsch1234 - because I wanted to listen to and watch the whole thing, but I had limited time. I ended up having to go to 1.75x speed.
I can understand your anxiety over what the “proper shade” of the base color needs to be. If you go to any military modeling forum, you will come across any variety of arguments on what’s the correct Olive Drab used on a Sherman tank or if a particular ME-109 had a specific RLM color on a tail flash. And despite there being paint codes and FS numbers to go by, you will get variations within the same fleet of vehicles even if freshly painted from the same paint batch. That doesn’t even take into account the effects of sunlight exposure, rain and other weathering factors. You’ve done a great job making it look the part and I applaud the work you did on this armor. It looks fantastic.
Or the fact that the real things were often painted in the field, in a rush by people who had more pressing concerns than colour matching.
as someone who builds both model kits and model railroads...oh god don't get me started. why my favorite railroad decided to pick a color about 2-3 shades darker than standard Pullman green for its coaches I'll never know, but its annoying to no end.
If you look at model paints intended for use on models of military aircraft, watercraft, and land vehicles, you'll quickly discover that there are at least 1001 different shades of green and even more for tan and brown. Seriously, the amount of effort and detail some of these model makers go to is extraordinary, to the point it's almost frightening.
@@sawyerawr5783 the Arkansas/Missouri local passenger line (that still runs a few coaches down to Van Buren from Springdale AR, among other routes) did something very similar. Such a pretty green but kinda hard to find.
One day builds have slowly gone from: "Build in a day!" to "Build in a day's worth of shop hours!" to "Able to watch on RUclips in a single day!" and i am here for it, lol
On a past video, someone suggested that it's for things of which Adam said "One day, I'll build it!"
@@catfish552 that would make much more sense 😂
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This hit home for me I was having this same thought watching the light saber vid last nite lol
Who else was literally watching the paint dry around the 30 minute mark.....and loving it? So cathartic.
I love Adam's explanation of how it feels when you're in the groove. I feel that when painting minis. My mind can wonder and I always come out of that groove feeling great!
Exactly what I thought about.
Went through that last night….working on a piece, look up thinking it was 12-12:30 and it was 3 AM lol
Of course camouflage is challenging to get right. The closer you get to finishing it the harder it is to see….. right?
Every time I start painting camo, I get half way through and then have to start again because I've lost what I'm working on.
True! It becomes invisible and disappears entirely 😆
I swear I was painting a model plane in cameo still can’t find the damn thing
not necessarily. the more recent 'digital' camo patterns do appear complex but really are simple geometric shapes thats designed to throw off our brains. but in truth the more simpler, like those from desert storm to ww2 era work and still work just fine for most environments.
my question is why is spelt 'camouflage' and not
Hi Adam,
Ex-British Mitary here. Now I understand that my comment is now redundant, seeing that you have finished the armour now, but I wanted to offer a hint/tip to camo. There are a few rules to applying camo that help a lot. Ok in a camo pack there are black, brown and green. So, green ist the base. Then black is used to break up the lines that you see immediately with your eye. Brown is then used to create shadow, where shadow shouldn't be. And green is used to merge. I just thought I would give my 5 cents to the equation. I loved the video!
You really should put a GoPro into that helmet lense. That would be perfect Con footage.
Great job! My son and I went to the 2016 San Diego Comic Con dressed as Colonial Marines. It was the 20th anniversary and they had a panel with all the original cast, I got to go up and ask them a question.James Cameron liked my out fit and Bill Paxton signed my helmet with "Game Over"! Wonderful experience, we actually did the pepakura method and overlaid it with fiberglass. For the helmet we attached all those pieces to the shell of an old steel us army helmet.
I love the one on one feeling you get watching Adam build something reminds me of when I was a boy in my grandpas Garage just watching him build
The vast volumes of videos, tips, insights of the industry is incredible. Adam really loves what he does.
I love Adam getting philosophical when he’s hyper focusing on a task. ❤️
As a Marine mechanic, in the seventies, we went from the all forest green to 4 color camo in the late seventies.
I painted a number of our vehicles from jeeps to 5 ton 6x6's to trailers.
Now there us an actual pattern to it, not just spray and go, to follow and it is inspected.
There is a technical manual, a 2'x3' book, with patterns for every piece of equipment.
The 4 colors were Forest Green (the major color), field drab (brown), black and sand.
Enjoying sharing a moment with Adam, separated by time and space, but connected in creativity; these kinds of videos are excellent company for drawing 👌💕
At 42:10 you are referring to what the Japanese call 'Mushin' or 'no mind', it is considered a Zen like state of being at peace with ones self. In sports its called being "In the Zone" the world melts away and the only thing between you and It is your task at hand. It can be a difficult state to achieve but boy howdy once you get there everything can come together really quick on what you are doing at the time. I would get there when sparring back when I did boxing and it was like seeing everything and nothing all at the same time. It really is hard to explain.
Software developers love finding their way to the zone too. Unfortunately the number of meetings and emails that require attention usually keep us out of it.
Musicians, artists, writers. Any creative work, really. I want to describe it as the difference between trying to walk while everything is hanging off of you and impeding your movements and weighing you down, vs. the feeling of each thing gently releasing and falling away. Leaving you alone, complete, at ease, in control, and speeding along toward your goal.
Find myself in that state frequently, both performing surgery ou woodworking.
Not just in sports - artists and writers also get into the same zone, we tend to call it "flow" state, where everything just "flows" without intent, without conscious effort, without any perception of passage of time...
People with ASD/Autism/Asperger's/ADD/ADHD spectrum consciousness are especially skilled at entering Flow State. Many neurologists have observed it in our brainwaves. In Neurodivergent people on that spectrum, it's called Hyperfocus.
(In all honesty, ADHD/ADD shouldn't really be labelled as an attention "deficit" problem.
It's more "We struggle to aim our hyper-focused laser beam of attention to what YOU want us attendant to, when you want it. Instead, we'll be piercingly attentive to 15 other minute details in the environment." But that doesn't fit onto an acronym neatly, or sound like it needs therapy and medication. )
@@boneclawwalker3778 this is awesome.... Thanks 👍
I really appreciate the honesty of Adam in these. It makes me feel like just have a go, anyone can be a maker
You really can! Step one to be good at something is to be bad at it. Currently doing that myself as I try make a workbench out of wood from home Depot. Never done woodworking before. Read some stuff, watch some, have a go! 👍 I shall be cheering for you from this RUclips comment 📣
@@kayura77 if it can be explained coherently on RUclips, how hard can it be? Right? That's gotten me by so far, anyway.
Hello from Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada. Thanks for sharing your great video’s please keep them coming.
I am an engineer for the DOD and I am sitting at home working on my government computer doing my work and mostly just listening to the wisdom and witticism coming from Adam on my phone. It helps me be focused and creative at the same time.
Suffering with this never ending cold and virus and watching Adam during sleepless nights has been comfort viewing !!!! Love the channel and very relaxing.
I have been on an EXTREME Alien/Predator kick recently, so this made my day!!! Thank you Adam!
Watching Adam walk around wearing the helmet while working on the rest of the armor just brings me joy.
Beautiful! I built an Incinerator unit from a kit back in '96 and have always wanted to do a pulse rifle and armor... The pulse rifle may just come to be a Hasbro re-paint, and the armor looks like years of my life if I tackle it...
Nerf is now making the pulse rifle
@@ramboplaysm14 yes, it's a Nerf gun sold through Hasbro Pulse.
Watching Adam struggle with this process in this video was really a boon to me as I was struggling with my own shading and colouring issues I was having with a drawing I was doing as I watched. Everyone hits that point where they just aren't sure if they've got things right and might've ruined a project and must shift into a "recovery mode," even Adam Savage. It was nice to share that struggle at the same time as him.
Can't believe I get to finally see a build when it first posts.
I deeply appreciate that the mistake with the back panel was left in. The occasional reminder that you don't have to be perfect to build such an awesome prop is handy.
That camo is super unique and was created entirely for the film. I think the original BDUs that the Colonial Marines wore were based on South African military camo. I might be wrong about that. It's not the typical pattern that you expect, which makes it way cooler. Love this build. Side note, who else ordered the Nerf M41A pulse rifle blaster replica? Guilty.
I am rewatching this episode. I just want to say I have my list on autoplay most of the time while I do work. I love hearing what you are making at the start of the video as I dont normally see the title or thumbnail. Love your builds and hope to show you some of the work I make in the future with your influence through my childhood :)
I'm just starting out learning to paint props and its really nice to see Adam having the same anxieties that I am going through.
I happen to love these long rambling videos. I'm a custom picture framer, and I like to listen to Adam while I work. Yes, I do feel like we got to spend this time together . Thanks.
glad you guys listened and post more of his self shot video! much more enjoyable than when there is a crew in the shop and adam is "performing"
Love how positive these comment sections are, everyone agrees about how great Adam is. You're awesome Adam! Much love
I came for the armour but stayed for the philosophical discussion on the connectedness of creativity. I love this channel.
Aliens is definitely my favourite of the series the armor looks amazing I'd love to see you do some star wars republic commando armor in the future
My x-husband camoed our hunting bows. Pick a few medium sized leafs. Spray whatever “ background” color you prefer . Then hold the leaf randomly over spots and lightly spray over and around the leaf. Repeat several times, change color, repeat until the object you are painting is covered as you like. This is obviously a forest camo but it is amazing looking and simple. Fern leaves work great too. You can also use flat rocks or bark etc as where you don’t put one layer/color. Where the color is not, just a natural shape is, with a little practice, works great. Just a fyi that we used successfully. Take colors from where the camo is hiding you. The colors come from any area of nature you are trying to hide in. They aren’t specific, like snow camo is shades found in snow areas, desert storm: sand snd rock colors etc etc
ODBs are some of my favourite comfort shows and I really needed this one today. and the little ramble about being in Flow state was just straight to my heart. So so grateful to Adam for sharing his light in all the ways he does ✨
i Agree 100%
They make me a bit antsy to make stuff, I've always had this dream of making a huge terrain for war gaming. Then I remember I don't have the tools or anything, also I don't even play war games (I don't know anyone who plays). I just love that stuff though.
It's really great to see someone who has all the stuff they need for a goal and to accomplish that goal though. Especially when the person has such an interesting personality and an engaging way of speaking. Not to mention the second hand enthusiasm Adam brings to the table, like a puppy, you can't help but get excited when you see how excited they are.
@@RoosterFloyd enthusiasm and creation really are infectious!! i love watching people make things of all kinds. it's beautiful to see someone sharing their passion.
and hey you could start small! maybe try making small dioramas in the style you like? even something inside a shoebox, how cool would that be :)
it's better to start small than never at all, cause who knows where it can lead you! best of luck friend 🌸
@@RoosterFloyd and you'd be amazed how much rad stuff you can build using trash and recycling!! those are some of my favourite materials to use cause they're free, and low pressure if you make mistakes there's no guilt cause it was gonna be trash anyway and at least you had fun & learned ! ✨
@@LemonadeOnMars Yeah that's what I've heard, just get out there and do it, you won't be a pro but you have to start, it's not something you can learn without hands on failures. I actually had an idea for a miniatures game involving sentient trash bots. Like they are made out of whatever random bits of machinery and metal they can find. At the center is a little core that is the actual mechanical being, but they have the ability to make shift it's limbs and stuff out of whatever they find. I like models that are wacky and disproportionate.
The fallen and smashed screw storage at 1:16:28 got a right old lol from me. I also remember it being on Adam's twitter feed a while back.
Man, rip.
I loved watching that paint dry, Adam. Thank you for catering to everyone.
I grew up on Bob Ross pbs reruns after school. Now I get to grow old with Adam Savage builds. Thank you Adam for making amazing content with tested.
The lose part is hold in place by the strap on the shoulder pads and fasnet or hooket to the back armor on the shoulder
At one point Adam rambled on about the feeling he had when working and connecting to the task. I believe that this is a thread of commonality that all makers, artists, and builders experience. As humans, we are born with what we can use to create. I felt this extension from the past when I made a suit of chain-mail. It also takes place when I paint and sculpt.
Hello Adam, I've noticed you have used the RUclips video for reference of the armour that I bought some time ago. In the last couple of years me and a friend re painted the skull and fixed the damage on the fiberglass. We also used black fireplace grate blackner on the armour to give it that worn dirty used look. You did a grand job on yours! The webbing is a mare to get right especially the shoulder section. I have photos of the finished armour if your interested.
Love existential Adam Savage, please feel free to go to this place more often!
My most prized convention possession is signed concept photos of the CM armor by Terry English. Absolute honour meeting him and seeing his work on display.
You are my hero. Thank you, for gifting me the love of creation, and the inspiration to pursue it.
Great vid, looking forward to seeing the weathering..... I hope that gel works well for you Adam.
The Alien helmet was is great memory for me from my teen years. I have to admit I was pretty high when I saw this in 1979. It scared me and fascinated me at the same time. Thank you Adam for your content.
1979 was Alien, 1986 was Aliens.👍
There seems to be two channels I keep coming back to and it's Adam Savage's Teste and Potholer54. The first one for a relaxing time entertaining the process of something being made and getting some ideas, the latter one for very well done and scientifically accurate takes on alot of things, debunks of conspiracies or misinformation and more. Both of you have something relly special so cherrish that.
Hey if you try to do camouflage remember what the purpose of it is. One prime such purpose is to eliminate shapes we register as human so you need to break things off such that it doesn't register as a body with two arms, two legs and a head, that's the tricky part. The same goes for face camo, you want to distort the face such that there isn't symmetry there that one would register.
We didn't take any pictures, but back in the late '90s, some friends and I made a set of Colonial Marines armor for a paintball team. We used airbrushes and stencils for the camo, then a black candy coat, and finally a matte clear coat. Then Mike put on each set of armor and rolled around on pavement for a few minutes, while we hit him with hockey sticks. Then after a light cleaning, we dry-brushed silver paint in all the scratches. It looked really good.
I found that when painting life-size camo, it looks best if you paint it how one would probably paint it for a real production line.
Regardless of your thinking- thank you for making this content, no matter what time you may see it. You rock and I'm stoked you bring your visions to reality so more people can be inspired to create. We need that more and more these days... I hope folks realize that they can do and create more based off of this episode. It's still rare to have folks do things on their own.
Oh yeah! Back to just Adam doing his thing! These are my favorite episodes!
I crocheted my Jawa costume. SO MUCH BROWN. Most of it was just a shapeless brown robe, and as you say, the tedium becomes meditative. But you focus on the finished product, and it gives you time to mull over how to make the tricky bits.
The art of mindfulness crafting it is the best meditative practice ever getting in that meditative making zone!
Absolute epic. I've been dipping in and out of this whilst moving house. Two epic activities in one!
Im a full-time military model builder when you use humbrol paint mix it and mix it some more its better to use there thinner its a hotter thinner it also takes a long time to gas off and dry if you can get some mr.color leveling thinner it works amazing on enamel paints and will dry a lot faster but for what you build try and use Acrylic paint for your base paints use enamel paints for washes and weathering and filters use a Cheap enamel thinner to make your washes some of the off the shelf Mineral spirits aren't hot enough to break down the paints I mix Mineral spirits and enamel thinner to make My weathering washes And filters. BUT You'd be better off to convert over to mr.color products or Tamiya paint for Airbrushing AT A RATE OF 50 50 FOR AIRBRUSHING .most people don't use Enamel paints for base paint anymore but only for Weathering you will get much better results.
It's nice how your advice works for animation, like the tiny little flaws drawing the eye like a magnet.
Watched the film "Spectral" last night. And the helmets the grunts wore at the final battle were very cool indeed
Those kit-bashed weapons were delicious.
I got to work on that film! the Spectral goggles, big camera/spotlight, and weapons were designed and built by WETA. they make the best stuff! I think Adam has some stuff from that film.
@@Revvek Great work on the kit. think the helmets and masks and glasses look bad ass,possibly best .
@@garymurphy5133 my part in it was several months designing what the soldiers would see when wearing the googles, as well as design and animation of the double screens on the top of the big guns.
In the name of time and budget, they ended up dropping the augmented reality concept. It was supposed to help them have better situational awareness indications stuck to things in view. And at some point someone added more video game like stuff all over the screen… the director didn’t want that (at first) but… whatever. :/
that’s the way of things some times, cutting room floor or last minute changes required by some top level executive in the process that just wanted it.
Oh well…
The upside down sortimo is more my style although you could put the armor on and roll in the screws as a weathering technique. I’m sure that’s why they are on the floor
Camouflage paint is basically a mix of soft edge and hard edge overlapping shapes, mostly earth colors with light and dark shades. The soft edge shape will give the effect of distance because it looks out of focus compared to the hard edge shape, which will trick the eye by creating the distance differential. The “distance” separated shapes make the camouflaged item’s actual shape indistinguishable.
flow state is when the challenge is meeting your demand of it.
when you seek fulfillment from your actions and you achieve it and are rewarded with more action, and this feedback loop of success and challenge is what people call the flow state.
you'll find it in track runners, artists, people just playing difficult video games, musicians, and more.
it's when you stop thinking about the steps because they are natural, and the work itself is not boring which is the opposite of flow state, it's cyclical engagement with focus.
i like how adam basically has become thanks to all the armors and suits he's made, the most epic cross over character to ever exist ever. I just love this idea of Adam as both, a colonial marine, one of the astronauts from 2001 a space odyssey, hellboy, No Face, Iron Man (specifically mark 1), etc. and it's all the films/comics/shows/anime we all know and love, but it's just depictions of adam in place of the original characters. I love it so much and it makes me smile to think about it
I KNOW this feeling of which you speak. 44:09. I've had it a few times. Along with the connectedness I feel a sense of well-being, safety, and satisfaction, and I smile. The odd thing for me is my brain is not correctly processing what my eyes see. I see shapes and textures, but I cannot tell you which shape or object is closer to me, and which is further away, or how they relate to one another. I can switch them back and forth. I see clarity but not context. I recognize my situation and realize I can quickly bring myself out of it, and back to reality, but I REALLY DON'T WANT TO. I finally do it most begrudgingly, because I don't know when or if I'll ever be back there. Maybe years, maybe never.
YEAH! 1.5h of One Day Builds is exactly what I needed today!
Hurrah!
For those trying to find a pot of the discontinued Humbrol Brown Bess, The Scale Modellers Supply in Australia took a pot and colour matched their own version called PL219 Blaster Brown. Outside of Australia there's stockists in USA, UK, Singapore and NZ.
I recently built a weathered broadsword and vambraces with my eight year old. The final additions to his Halloween costume. The Tested videos were the catalyst for these endeavors. Fun as a family and kids using their hands to build. An amazing experience. Thank you for your passion and insight.
A new one day build? I am excited. Thank you Adam.
An episode of Adam just rambling about nothing in particular while making something awesome would be perfect. I'm here because I think Adam is an amazingly interesting human being!
Adam, you are an inspiration. Please live forever.
Adam, tell us about those "flush cutters"you used o. Thus project. I'm not familiar with that type!
Great video, thanks
Came here to ask the same question. Sorry if they’ve been featured on a Tool Tip (or another video) but if so I’ve missed it.
Just got back from classes for the day. Perfect mental relaxation for the start of my weekend. Hurray for no class on Friday!
I watched all the myth busters series and loved them
This guy... one of the only ppl that can make sanding so damn interesting!!
I will say, making spray templates for camoflage seems like the perfect use case for a Cricut, or other brand of vinyl plotter/cutter. Just find the appropriate camo pattern, trace over it in a vector graphics program, then run the plotter. Once it's done cutting, you can just peel and stick the vinyl onto whatever needs painting for whichever colors need masking.
Watching Adam videos is exactly the same as The Martian. Just a fun, charismatic guy solving problems with space stuff in the shot
The shoulder mounting was a definite no No NO moment for me. Strap that armor up like you would Lorica Segmentata. Or look at your Excalibur plate. Strap the pauldrons in the middle of the upper edge to the shoulders of the breastplate. That allows the best movement and keeps the point where you did fasten it free to move as you move your arms.
Yeah i was so disappointed to see him do that to the shoulders. After painting and building USCM armour sets for clients for years i was yelling at the screen at that point! Really hoping he revisits this at some point and corrects them.
At minute 18:20 I saw the flickering dim lights in the background and thought, do you ever think that you have ghosts in the shop. Or unexplained noises sounds or objects moved around the savage cave. Love watching the one day builds great content.
I think that feeling @44:15 is when practice and experience replace all conscious decision making during an (creative in my experiences) endeavor. Letting yourself produce work without the (as Adam said) ego worrying about the outcome. It isn't even shared only with the people that see the video, but anyone who sees the product for it's lifetime.
One way I've seen camo patterns applied is using a hydrographic method. Tank of water, spray paints into the water, dip the part you want to apply the paint to. Randomises the design effectively
Adam. I used to be part of an Aliens costuming group the UKCM. We had connections to Terry English and the world's largest Aliens prop collector Harry Harris. So to build our suits we used SpatCave plastic armour (far more accurate than Golden Armour) in green (his green is lighter, because the weathering will sort that) and then painted them with the humbrol paints as you did. And you end up with what looks like cartoon armour! And very matt, which is not what the originals looked like?!?! When I did it I'd spent so long creating a Hudson like armour I nearly cried. But then I used the magic weathering solution. And it's what Terry uses... Stovax black grate polish. At first it seemed like a horror show, too dark. But as I trusted the process it just works! And I had pictures taken at an event where Harry's collection was on display against the real Hudson armour, and even Terry stated that you could hardly tell the difference.
Going to see a 35th-anniversary screening of Aliens at a local theater tomorrow night. It has been at the top of my list for my all-time favorite movies since 1986.
Adam I know it's an extra step but it might have saved you a lot of struggle and issue. You could have got yourself a vinyl wrap printed in the style of camo you wanted and use it as a mask after you have wrapped your items cut out the colors with an exacto and then paint them. Where the vinyl wrap is nothing but a mask that helps guide you in this matter. And then you can add all your effects to the paint. There's no problem with free hand but it may have been easier. And you're off on your colors. Deep Forest isn't necessarily the base olive drab should be. Deep Forest is actually the dark green blobs of the actual camo. And possibly burnt umber for the brown.
I was at Exeter (UK) Comic-Con today and Terry English was there with one of his original armour sets! Was awesome to have watched this last night and saw an original today.
The best way to make camouflage colors to work is to mix a little of the background (or base) color into everything... it "unifies" it. Then tying it all together with a black or brown wash works even better and can be more subtle
I love the random dive into philosophy lol. Philosopher Adam FTW! It does make your videos more real and interesting to watch. Anyone can make a "how to paint prop armor" video, but not anyone can make one that I'll actually watch all the way through. Well done sir.
At 1:12:18 I laughed WAY too hard at him pulling off the stencil and going "That looks greeeeaaat!", while admiring the stencil itself rather than the freshly sprayed helmet hahahah
I love that your 54 and still figuring shit out. Life. Work. Hobbies. Just like us ❤
That feeling you're talking about... "I am the smallest thing in the room and I am the room" is an almost perfect description of a Zen state.
A great weather technique that I have seen is using a straight file because it’s guaranteed to only hit the high spots. Another alternative is a long hard sanding block but the grit sand pager that you use is up to you.
I just finished my colonial marine armor, got my kit from chef’s creations in the UK. I understand your problem with the shoulder plates sliding on the sides. I was thinking of using magnets to keep them in place, since i want my kit be easy to dismantle for transport. Would live to one day do a troop with you in this kit. I had to look at a ton of references for the straps and attachments, so hard to figure everything out. Gonna do my first comiccon in Quebec this weekend, pretty excited.
You did an awesome job !
I think it's crazy how either reality imitated art or the costume designer was really future proof as the helmet with a built in headset and a camera on the side is pretty popular with special forces of today and they thought of it in 1985.
I think that the people engineering real gear were often fans of sci-fi and were inspired to make it work in real life. Same with like video phones and such.
I think, more interestingly, the creators of sci-fi are just good at guessing the next logical evolution of technology. Take Gene Roddenberry and Star Trek, for example. Most things we have now, tablets, touch screens, vr, fiber optic cables, but a lot of that is really just him guessing the next step. Tv's will probably get thinner, phones will have tv-like screens, you'll be able to press buttons on the screen so you can see more, fill a whole room with screens and you can project images in full scale, we'll find a way to conduct electricity that isn't with metal. And all of this stuff is still being predicted in sci-fi now. Just look at Interstellar and the way it was able to create a nearly perfect visual of a blackhole before we were ever able to photograph one.
Having just watched the bench vice handle video. It's nice to see it being fully utilised (especially 51:30)
Dear Adam Savage glad that you are making this videos it is very glad that you are doing these
when you paint on something and the first color looks great, please use a test panel and spray the first color. once dry, apply your other color choice and see what happens. repeat on other extra colors before you do the real project. This helps the trial & error.
When you describe that kind of flow state, I know exactly what you're talking about. It's mediative. Intensely focused, but unfocused at the same time. That's what came to mind while you were talking about it anyway. As far as the difficulty being random is concerned, I recognized it from a young age age started practicing randomness, especially when drawing things like trees and foliage. Nature operates on fixed principles and mechanisms, but they propagate in different ways according to the environment. Crystals form in very specific ways, but no two of them are alike. Trying to replicate that in art is an interesting exercise, because there's both uniformity and chaos at play at the same time. Too much randomness looks just as wrong to the eye as not enough. Again, just my take on it.
Amazing how adding the lighter green to the legs tied them together with the rest
Ca glue and baking soda , one of the best filling materials I've discovered through my model making.
I feel blessed to have caught this so soon
Bill Paxton would be proud. One of my favorite characters in any movie. RIP
To those that do not paint camo, they do not understand how hard it is to get something that is accurate, but also aesthetically pleasing