Fun On Ice Building The Stand

Hello everyone and welcome to my channel. Today I have this little treat here that we are going to work on. So last year I made the winter tree as a Christmas calendar or advent calendar. This year I got this little thing again from the same company as the one from last year. If you want to find them they have an Etsy shop and a home page. And, yeah. We are going to look at this one. So I am opening here and there are so many things in here. There is this little mountain and a ton of figurines. That's gonna be fun painting. I am gonna make sure you don't have to see every paint process this time because the trees are the same as the last ones and so on. So I will show you a tiny bit of it but not everything. We have some wiring and some lights and a on and off switch, some magnets I think. We have a motor. Then we have a lot of wood parts here, if I can get that up, board and a lot of interesting parts here. I have the how-to guide and I think I have it in two languages here and then this blue sheets I think it's a paper, no, it's actually a piece of plastic, self-adhesive plastic. So let's see, put that to the side and show you how it looks like. And that was the English instruction right here, and I actually have them on Deutsch, Germany as well. So German and English, and there I have a template. I'm not sure for what yet, but I will see. And here we have the Don Rizal, a little mountain, and another... I think that's a little mountain piece for the center. And then we have people on ice skating around in the center. So we have the parts, what we need, the figurines, a lot of cute little figurines. And here is... How we are going to put everything together and of course there we have the little lake that is going to be glued on and then that's it. So I am going to voice over and then I am going to start this build. So inside this bag we have all the pieces for the main board or actually the whole part of this. And I'm just looking through here quickly what I have for every part and kind of cleaning it up here making sure I have everything that I need. And I do. So these parts are the first we need. Here we have the motor that we are going to place here on that little cutout dot we have there. So I am going to first of all get rid of all these small pieces here. So I am going to take a look here at the step out in a second. And we are going to use this little piece together with the little button and that thing for the electricity. You want the small teeth to go down and the big teeth on this piece of wood to go up. So now I am placing this one for the electricity, that is a hard word today, and that little bottom and it will not go into place. So I had to find my exacto knife to kind of give it a little more room so that I can push it into place where it needs to go. I think that's it. No, not quite. Just taking off tiny, tiny pieces at the time until I can push it into place. There we go. And then I'm going to place this so that the bottom of course is on the outside and the metal prongs are on the inside. And you want the big prong on this electrical things to turn to the right side and the small one to the left side. Here I am placing that little wood piece that goes on the back side of the button so that it is not falling out when you click it. And I turned that little metal prongs the right way. You want that little thing here for the mechanic to point downward, straight down. So you glue it on top of that little hole in the middle but keep it pointing straight down. Now for all the electricities. First I am taking the black wire and I'm placing that on the big prong on that electrical intake. Then I'm taking the red wire and I'm putting that on the left prong here on that button. Then I have a tiny piece of extra wire and I am connecting the small prong here with the other side of the button, the one we don't have the red wire in. They actually show us to take a piece of the red wire to do this, but I think the red wire might get a little too short if I do that, so I just took an extra piece of miniature wire that I had lying around from another project. But you could take a tiny piece of the red one to connect these Let's put these two pieces together. It was a bit tricky for me to put in the wire through that little hole and around on both sides but I actually got there. So this one the long stick here is going onto the red wire and the other end of this little wire with the lights on goes to the big prong on the on this side where we have the black wire going. So I am starting with placing that one. I am using a tiny bit of flux on each of these places where I am going to solder everything together. You don't have to solder everything but it makes it so much more sturdy and it will stay in place and you don't have to fight with these connections later. So it's the easy way It's a great way to solder everything together. It's actually not that difficult. So here I am going to solder that little wire for the lights and the black wire onto the big prong on the electrical intake here. So I'm just waiting for my solder iron to get hot and then I am using that solder wire and then I'm soldering these two wires really good onto that long prong we have To make sure I am not going to do something I don't want to to the black wire, I am going to tape that down to that little bottom piece of the wood here. Then I am going to solder that little white wire I have here to the small prong on the electrical intake so that is stuck too. Now I'm trying to place the white wire into that place where we don't have anything in the button. It was a bit tricky to get it in place, but I got it, and then I put in a tiny bit of flux, or put on a tiny bit of flux, and I'm going to solder that white wire until that little button. On this side with the red wire, I am first connecting that. Again, I'm soldering that, and I did use a tiny bit of flux. Then I'm taking this little stick, and I'm heating up the solder and placing it in there. And then I figure out that I need to put that little stick here onto that little prong from the other side. So I have to move it around and place it. Let's see, I got it right here. Place it in from this side. It has to sit from that side. Sorry about that, my Dremel is in the way, but it is sitting like that into that little soldering thingy. Then I am taking the wire with the lights on and I'm placing them so it goes out on the corner and make sure that it is not hitting that little thinner prong on that electrical intake because that would be a problem. Then I'm going to take my electrical adapter and I'm going to connect that to some electricity and to this little thing here and I'm going to test it out. I have lights And I actually have movement here on the little motor. I am going to tape down the red wire as well, just to make sure everything is sitting nicely and tucked away when it's all done. And now it is time for these pieces around the box. You want the little thingy here to go down and the bigger thing to go up. And I'm just placing these plates carefully into these slots. A few of them you have to kind of wiggle a tiny bit to get in there, but most of them is just fitting perfectly. So it actually is a bit of an easy build right here. Placing the corners as well. I am going to use hot glue to glue the bottom part here onto the side part or the side part onto the bottom part. You don't have to do that if you want easy access for the cables later on. You don't want to do this step but I'm pretty sure everything is fine and stuck where I need it to be so I'm just gluing this part together. Then I place that little circle here, and it only fits in one way on this little motor. Then I'm going to glue this part on top of that circle. So I'm just using a tiny bit of super glue on this little starry thing. And I am using my tacky glue on the little circle here. And then I'm just going to place them together and make sure they are really nice stuck together. Now I am taking the six big magnets there is in this little set here and with my super glue I am gluing one on each of these little star arms here and I'm gluing them at the end of the arms. Then I'm straightening out this little light string and there is this little cute hole here for the light string so I'm just going to pull it through that hole all the lights Again, I am using my tacky glue on these end pieces here where that top piece will lay down on top in a second. Just making sure I have a tiny bit of the glue all the way around so that it will stay in place when I place it on top. Making sure I pull the wire through and then carefully start to make sure that every single of these little notches are going into their little holes on the top plate here and they will go through and a tiny bit over this little plate. This is very thin material because you want the bigger plates on top later and they will stay in these Little pieces as well. This was a little fiddly, but it was manageable. When the glue is all hardened, I am using a dark brown Vallejo. I think this one is called Walnut. And I am painting everything that is going to be visible in that nice brown color. The two top pieces, I took them outside and I gave them some white spray paint because that was easier than painting everything. And these small dots here, I am giving them a tiny bit of white Vallejo paint as well, just to make sure that they won't be too visible when I put everything together In the kit we got this white template here that I am going to cut out first of all and I am doing it roughly, trying to keep the shape but still really roughly. Then I'm placing that in the corner of this blue self-adhesive paper and I'm going to cut that shape out again roughly. I'm actually Giving it a little extra here. Looking at the step out guide, I am placing this blue self-adhesive piece of, it's not paper, it's more like a vinyl, and I'm placing that here on my box. I got it a little too high up, but I think we can manage later, so it's not a big deal. But I'm placing it almost where it needs to go, but it's good enough. I did give these two pieces white spray paint, but I don't like the edges here, so I'm actually using a tiny bit of my Vallejo paint to paint all the edges over again, both the inside edges and the outside edges, because you can see them when you're all done with the build. And these plates are going to be hanging out over the edge, so you will see this piece here on the bottom of it. So I decided to paint that white as well to make it look nicer when you look at it from the bottom part, if you do. And I'm doing this of course on both of these parts. When my paint is all dry I am going to take these tiny magnets here and I'm placing them where I feel that they are gonna go because of the magnets underneath. This way I can make sure that everything is sitting in place when this is all done. You have six of these smaller magnets as well. Then I am going to take my string light here, and again this top piece has a nice little hole for the string light. It's right here, and I'm going to put that string light through that little hole. Just pull it through. Then I am giving the edge of this piece here some tacky glue, this is a fast curing tacky glue, I think the normal tacky glue is just as good, but I'm giving the edge all the way around this tacky glue and then I'm placing this top piece here into those pieces that we have from underneath. It was a bit tricky to get them in there but it actually worked out fine and you can see I have a tiny bit of glue oozing out. I'm going to remove that in a second but first I am going to glue the other side here onto the top part as well and I'm taking my time with getting the fittings of this plate done. I don't know if it makes a difference, but I am putting a bit of tacky glue into all of these holes for these pieces that keeps it together, just hoping that it will keep it a bit better in place. I don't know if it makes a difference, but I'm gonna do it anyway. To be able to place this little 3D printed FDM print mountain in the center, I am turning on the mechanism so you can see the magnets are actually going in circles here. And then I am using my tacky glue and some component glue. You have to glue a tiny bit on one piece and a tiny bit on the other piece. Leave it for a few seconds before you connect that. And then I am placing that little mountain on the middle of this plate, making sure that the magnet has more than enough space to go around it. That was it for today. I hope you enjoyed this little build. Come back next week to see more. Happy crafting!