Enamel Project
To start of the enameling project, I made a sample of a champlave ant, to see if I liked the look of it. I realized while making that sample I probably wouldn't have enough time to make the amount of ants I originally wanted, but I liked how it turned out so I ended up with a goal of less ants. I began by cutting out five ants, attempting to get those skinny legs without making the copper too thin. I then drilled out the cells of the body to later be wet packed with enamel. I then filed the inside of the cells, and covered the back of each ant with hard solder. This took forever because of the small legs, but finally I got them all to flow and ready to sweat solder I then cut out small backplates for each one, and while doing this I accidentally left one of my ants in the blades way, and accidentally cut it in half. I ended up cutting out another one quickly because I liked having five. One by one, I then soldered each one to a backplate. I had a little trouble at first swe...