Thread: New Skeleton with EMT conduit

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After completing my first paper mache ground breaker I noticed a bunch of EMT conduit in the corner of my garage so I grabbed my welder and started another project. Hopefully this should take not more than a week or three (lol) to finish up. The conduit is nice and strong and I don't have to wait for glue to dry so hopefully that should speed things up a little. Hope some of you can use this tutorial if you have a welder. More to follow

Ok so I started out with about 8-10 pieces of EMT. I placed them up to my legs for reference. then measured my waist and so on.

Well the body is mostly done. Just have to add some feet, hands, add some detail to the spine, then move onto some mache work.

At about 2 1/2 hours worth of work so far, and nice and sturdy.

I post more pictures as the progress continues

I forgot to mention an important safety item. The EMT has a galvanized coating on it. You must grind or remove the coating where you plan to weld. The fumes from burning zinc are very TOXIC!!! It's best to work with a respirator if possible but I just have some good ventilation at my back so it constantly is pushing the fumes away from me. Not to much though because a strong breeze pushes the welding gas away from the weld.

That is going to be a skeleton worthy of the Terminator.

Hopefully it last that long to.

really cool so far can't wait to see when it's done

I want to learn to weld...........that is great and will alst forever.....

I had when I was a teenager (1960's) A guy welded 1/2 steel conduit into a 2 seater sports car along about the same dimensions as a Lemans-winning Ford GT 40.
He then covered it with sheet metal, I could see no thick or large pieces of steel anywhere in the pictures. It had a V-8 engine behind the driver compartment.
Riding in such a car would scare me to death! But isn't conduit wonderfull for more solid props!

Originally Posted by Gym Whourlfeld

But isn't conduit wonderfull for more solid props!

Yes it is. I have a bunch of it just lying around I don't know why I didn't think of using it earlier.
I'm thinking that I need to look into a little smaller tubing though. I don't like how big the 1/2" stuff is for the rib area. I was also thinking of making a tighter tubing bender, or maybe a bunch of different sizes so the ribs look a bit more realistic. I'll just have to try some trial and error like everything else.