dump truck
this was a lot harder than it looks. And even though it only needs a few buttons (wheels, headlights, tail lights) I can’t bring myself to finish it. I thought I’d move on from diggers and try my hand at dump trucks. The body of the truck wasn’t so bad–a lot of confusing parts, but it worked out okay. But the actually dumping part (I have to learn me some technical terms if I’m going to keep making these things) was pretty damn frustrating. I used timtex (well something like timtex but fusable–it was all they had–and I just fused both sides to cotton batting) and holy crap is that stuff hard to deal with. Granted I probably shouldn’t be using it on something so small, but I couldn’t figure out how to make all the sides of the dumper sturdy. It comes together just like a bag with a lining would, except if your bag has an extra thick layer of stiff as hell interfacing then it turns out that the inside is smaller than the outside and the lining you made has to be remade smaller (but whoops not that small, make it again). Turning that sucker out was such a pain that I had to take a break half way through. But now that I’m looking at it a day later (and complaining all over the place about it) I’m starting to like it again. So really I have to rethink the pattern–any suggestions? But I am happy about on thing: it dumps.
