With this project I wanted to design a sleek, aggressive, and durable flashlight. The design references a bomb, more specifically from the WWII era. The button is on the end of the flashlight, and to turn it on and off, you simply hold the flashlight and bump the button on any surface for one hand operation.
After the final design was selected, I moved from paper to the lathe. This project was my first experience using the lathe. Turns out its a lot easier than I thought. Once I got the form almost perfect on the lathe, I sanded the rest by hand. Spot putty came next and after applying and sanding two coats, I moved onto primer. Four coats later I was ready for paint. The color scheme I chose was black and gold. I laid down two gloss black base coats before masking things off and subtely laying in some matte gold highlights. All in all this project was fun.
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