{"id":52,"date":"2015-07-23T20:52:05","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T20:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darylwhite.net\/?p=52"},"modified":"2015-07-23T20:53:52","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T20:53:52","slug":"making-the-legs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darylwhite.net\/index.php\/2015\/07\/23\/making-the-legs\/","title":{"rendered":"Making the legs&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trying to keep the look as faithful to the original as possible I decided to try bending some threaded rod to make the curved pieces of the turret legs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/darylwhite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_20150723_113519.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-53 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/darylwhite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_20150723_113519-320x240.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20150723_113519\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/darylwhite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_20150723_113519-320x240.jpg 320w, https:\/\/darylwhite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_20150723_113519-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/darylwhite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_20150723_113519-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/darylwhite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_20150723_113519-540x405.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Surprisingly this worked well as I was expecting the rod to snap, I made adjustments slowly and I think it helps that the angles are soft.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/darylwhite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_20150723_114652.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-54 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/darylwhite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_20150723_114652-320x240.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20150723_114652\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/darylwhite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_20150723_114652-320x240.jpg 320w, https:\/\/darylwhite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_20150723_114652-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/darylwhite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_20150723_114652-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/darylwhite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_20150723_114652-540x405.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Here is a final shot of the legs, one 90 degree bend and two half circles. Eventually these will be sprayed black.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trying to keep the look as faithful to the original as possible I decided to try bending some threaded rod to make the curved pieces of the turret legs. Surprisingly this worked well as I was expecting the rod to snap, I made adjustments slowly and I think it helps that the angles are soft. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blake-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darylwhite.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darylwhite.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darylwhite.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darylwhite.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darylwhite.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/darylwhite.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56,"href":"https:\/\/darylwhite.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darylwhite.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darylwhite.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darylwhite.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}