Dragon Rocket Stove
Episode 8
Complete!
Completing the Rocket Mass Heater!
This week the family worked hard to complete the rocket stove and oh boy, does it look awesome!! You must check out this video and feel free to leave a comment or like if you want - Shae :P
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Shae aka Winter_Apple
March 3, 2017
Transcript of Video
Bree: In the previous episode, we completed the sculpting of the dragon Rocket Stove Mass Heater.
Bree: It's time for the finishing touches. We ordered some dragon eyes online.
Gary: We are going to dry fit this to see how it fits. It's going to get new eye balls.
Bree: Our grandma has been doing a lot of chalk work. So. it gives us an idea.
Gary: We wanted to go first with this chalk idea.
Shae: So we ended up getting a ton of those construction chalks.
Gary: in the old days, you could get red and blue. When we went to the store, they had purple and orange and black.
Shae: Red.
Gary: ...And some sidewalk chalks, paint brushes.
Shae: Anything we thought we might need for the painting of the chalk.
Gary: 2 colors. I want to take these out and test them out on the walls. let's go do that. We can't actually test on the stove itself. We had some cobbed areas in the back. We went back there and tested, dry, wet, what does it look like wet with linseed oil.
Shelly: What about we linseed it, chalk it and then linseed it again.
Gary: Look at that. see how that paints up nice?
Bree: If it stays that color with the oil, that will look really cool. that is a really nice blue. perfect.
Shae: so the first thing we need to do is linseed 3 coats.
Shelly: linseed first coat. it will soak up the most.
Bryson: alright Dad, what are you doing?
Gary: Putting the eye balls in. He has a mouth and a a nose. Oh ya...
Gary: Diesel liked to lick the linseed oil.
Shae: This time we could get him out of the building and keep him from doing that. He is teaching Max to lick the walls now. It is not even linseed oil....it is bacon grease.
Gary: you have a little dot right there. When I push it, what happens?
Shae: This is a sneak peek of the color that we are using.
Gary: Don't look...
Shelly: so that is the first layer on.
Bree: it looks so cool.
Gary: I would like to do a review of the rocket stove in Garen's room. It has a pipe underground here back and up. the benefit is we get the underground heat but the detriment is we have to light the from the floor on our knees. in this one we should have installed a clean out. I love the way it heats the floor. it puts out great heat. that is our cob release.... of warm....warmness...
Shae: when we were doing the sculpting, it turned out the same way where Dad worked on the main dragon and i worked on the 2 side dragons. when were painting, we did the same thing.
Bryson: she has a lot thicker mixture than Dad.
GAry: I had to go in a grab my iPad and take a look at the original plan it was all blues with highlights. i looked at that and it did not seem practical.
Shae: That is the color i used on the underside of the other wing. In reverse...I'm switching it up Mom.
Shelly: Wow.
Shae: Singing...Hey mister Bry.... wow dad. it is coming along.
Gary: When i first started putting the chalk on, It drys pastel. not really dark enough.
Shae: it was almost white in some areas. It was so light. so we were thinking. When we out the linseed oil on it will darken up. kind of antique it...
Shelly: i hope we get a little bit of color to come through. Let us see if any of this color comes back. Hopefully, it will be nice and dark.
We ended up taking those eyes out. We will have to put them back in.
Shae: we found after the linseed oil, you could not see it al all.
Gary: All the color was gone.
Shae: The red we used was made it look more burnt.
Gary: it was really cool. later we came back. And re assess it.
She: the chalk did not work as expected. So we moved on to oil paints.
Gary: Shelly was out scrounging around in the hoop barn and found a basket full of oil paints.
She: we started to redo it. we even used different colors this time. you can use spray paint to work as well.
Shelly: I would not recommend it using that is my kitchen dish.
Shae: was... That was your kitchen dish.
Gary: I went with green like i wanted.and that looked great.grey with the armor
Shae: I went with blue.
Gary: And she went blues.... we have a lighter blue and darker blue. one has polkadots and the other has stripes?
Shae: they have the same...
Gary: so is it like the zebra? White zebra with black stripe? or a black zebra with white stripes?
Shae: one of each...
Bryson: Mom...what's your task?
shaelly: I have a little bit of paint to touch up. when they flick...not that they ever make mistakes.
Bryson: You are using simple brush? that is hairlarios. Dad, what are you working on?
Gary: Highlights.
Shelly: wow Shae!
Bryson: (growling)
Shae: i'm excited to see what it looks like after we linseed it and make sure it does not fade to black.
Gary: the layout on the paints, the horns and this lower section were the red rock is, is all chalk paint. now we have oils based oil based paints through the body, the face and the knees and down to the feet. the pebble, the rocks, they have a touch of chalk on them. Up here we have some more oil paints. It looks good right now. i'm very happy with the way it turned out. We are done.
Shae: I think we are good now.
Gary: Let's burn some wood in it now.
Shae: start the fire. We need fire.
Bree: That concludes our series on the dragon rocket stove. We will have a full version soon, some time in the near future. That will include some new scenes with the tail and other little changes we might make. so stay tuned for that.
All: Thank-You!
Gary: Shelly went "scrounging around"
Shelly: scounging?
Gary: Ya That too.
Shae: It's my bad face.
Gary: how is the sound? Professional?
Gary: We had to go in eat. because...
Shae: We need food.
Gary: food.
Shae: "I need sustenance!!!"
GAry: Thor here.Review on the rocket stove.
Shelly: That is not how Thor talks.Arnold talks that way.
Gary: Arnold was supposed to have played Thor but he was too busy being Governor.
Bryson: I'm busy watching. There should be more paint there Dad. I'm just kidding.
Shae: Our family moved from the city to the country. Thanks for taking part in our adventure.
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Shae: you started walking off...i said good bye.
Gary: Are we on?
Shae: Sneak peek on to the color that we are using.
Gary: don't look.
Bryson: You got bigger chunk on your hand. when you did that.
Gary: Don't look here.
Bryson: you've got a big chunk on your fingers.
Shae: is it just me or is that too tempting?
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