Every week, Adam takes a question from the Tested Premium Member community in the comments section below or on social media (tagged #AskAdamSavage) and answers here. This week, Adam talks about his favorite dishes to cook at home.
Assembling the 2,500 Piece 3D-Printed Sculpture!
At this year’s Nation of Makers conference, Adam Savage meets up with Jen Schachter and Todd Blatt to help with their latest We the Builders project: a sculpture of Rosie the Riveter comprised of over 2,500 3D-printed parts! The parts were crowdsourced from makers all around the world, and the assembly is truly a team effort. Find out more about the process and get involved at http://wethebuilders.com
Episode 464 – Unprotected Left Turns – 8/30/18
Show and Tell: 2001 EVA Pod Model Kit!
2001: A Space Odyssey fans are in for a treat! We go hands-on with the Discovery EVA Pod model kit from Moebius Models, an 1/8th scale miniature we first saw at Comic-Con. It’s an impressive styrene kit that’s much bigger than we imagined, and we show its details side-by-side with the 12th-scale Atomic City garage kit released almost a decade ago.
Knowing Your Work’s Worth – Still Untitled: The Adam Savage Project – 8/28/18
Artist Sabin Howard’s National World War I Memorial Sculpture
Adam meets sculptor Sabin Howard, who is working on a sculpture that will be a national momument to the First World War. In the process of designing the memorial for review, Sabin worked with Weta Workshop to create a scale model of the proposed sculpture, and walks Adam through the story it tells.
One Week at Weta Workshop, Part 6
A full week of work comes together as we go on set to shoot the short film! Half the team heads to Weta Workshop for early morning creature makeup, while the production crew and Adam go on location to begin filming. There’s lot of problem-solving in the moment to get all of our shots, and both Peter Jackson and Richard Taylor visit the set to lend some advice.
Ask Adam: Most Important Tool (Used Least)
Adam Savage talks about low-frequency tools generally and well as specifically when he answers the question: What is the most important tool that gets used the least in your shop?
Custom Model Paint Racks for the Tested Workshop!
Sean’s latest project with our Universal Laser Systems laser cutter is an improvement to our workshop’s model paint storage. Sean designs a stackable storage system that can work with different sized bottles, properly labeled. We assemble one of these storage racks and show off the design details.
