Every artist should partner with an engineer. That looks like it belongs onscreen. Well done.

The algorithm brought me here. After watching the video, I fully expected to see 500k+ subs, and I know that you’ll get them and more if you keep at it. I’m honored to be among your first 1,000. Keep it up dude. This is a beautiful build, and a really well made video.

We should all be so lucky to have a friend that would go to these lengths for a gift. I'm lucky to get a text message off mine

need me a pair of air jar jars

I actually think the overspray on the side details really add to the overall effect. Awesome job with the leather effect!

So Cool! I do have an idea to improve the scomp mechanism just a little. I would add a recess below the bottom gear with a spring and add a keyed element to it so that when the scomp is turned to a certain position, it can drop down an inch or so. Then in that recess, add another switch that unlocks the crate and relocks it when pressed again, I would make it so that this drop down is 45 degrees rotation from the other one, so that like R2 does, you gotta move it around in multiple directions to first turn on the sounds, then unlock the crate in another position.

The trick with the resin and the cornstarch is very clever. It looks really good.

insane stuff my dude, big inspiration. love that you're not afraid to show stuff that went wrong and how you went about fixing it

Absolutely amazing man… the cinematography, the build, the details, everything is just incredible!!

Man this came out incredible! The pre-scratching method also works really well. I did this when I built my custom mandalorian armor, and it made such a massive difference

Dying white LED's with alcohol ink is a great idea.

This box looks like it needs it's own EC Henry lore video, amazing job!

Absolutely stunning. What a wonderful gift!

I'm enjoying the term "Slippery Washer"

How has this channel big 1.5M subs???? You're doing an amazing job! Thank you for the entertainment

That's some Adam Savage level workmanship. I'm looking forward to whatever else you try your hand at.

Nice work! It's good to see also non-super-technical people show that it's possible to work with sound, leds, and technology!

You keep blowing my mind with your level of skill with every video you put out! Another amazing job!!!

Wow! Fantastic video! Can't believe this channel is so small. I immediately subscribed!

Just got into 3d printing and have discovered this new world of model/prop making. There are so many great but underappreciated channels. Yours is certainly one of them! Great job!

Wow! Awesome work. Love the electronics system as well

Its Teflon tape (or generic product), the white one for smooth sliding. Its the same stuff pan layers are made of.

This is absolutely amazing!! So many different tips throughout. The cornstarch in the UV resin for added texture as well as the modpodge/IPA/Chaulk were both things I've never seen and plan on trying out soon. Love all the details in there and how the droid socket actually functions to turn things on/off. The cam interacting with the button was genius for changing rotation into linear button interaction. Saved this to a few different playlists to come back to specific parts. Absolutely love it and WELL worth subscribing!

for the interior, you could have used the 3d printed ones as a mold or a vacuume form, then make some out of silicone or rubber. or print them in a flexible material for a truly shock-absorbent interior.

Looks amazing! On stenciling what I do to help on overspray is put pennies across the stencil to weigh it down. But in real military crates, they obviously use stencils and overspray happens on those. So it captures that feel of military crate.

Amazing build! 🤘

That looks sick as heck! 10/10, would store a poncho in it.

BEAUTIFUL! someone should get Adam to feature this on Tested

Just when I started to feel like my childhood love of Star Wars was lost thanks to all the modern rubbish, this video popped up on my feed and has filled my heart with joy. Thank you sir for your most excellent content! Absolutely brilliant execution and so deeply informative!

Wow I’ve never thought of using dry brushing to fully paint a piece. It came out looking so good

That's one fancy toolbox.🐵

Adam savage needs to see this! He loves a good box

someone hire this guy and pay him loads of money!

Great project. A Star Wars themed fightstick controller would be great. Or a Star Wars themed PC case.

Nice box!

this is so freaking good what the hecc

Holy crap, less than 2k subs for this level of quality is criminal! Subbed! Also, I really love your approach to greebling, using the source material as inspiration but going in your own direction that still respects the source and tries to match the style as closely as possible.

Shocking that this has less than 7k views

The finished product looks amazing! 🔥 Great job

I love the mod pog and PVA + chalk hack. I'm going to be using that. Great build!!!!

Excellent commentary. So detailed. Top level finished product. You must have an extreme level of patience! Very authentic looking, for sure.

Adam Savage would love this :D

Great video and prop! I recognise the bench greeble there 😊😊😉 subbed

At 6:23 minute for masking, you can use liquid latex use it on the areas you need and peels right off! Amazing build I learned so much already !!! Can wait to see the rest of your creations 🎉🎉🎉😊

This is actually so amazing, expected you to have a lot more subscribers

Absolutely amazing work! i love it!

yet again, another amazing build, keep the awesome content coming buddy. Also, congrats on 826 subs, you're gonna be big one day.

incredible work

Young Man! This is an incredible build, and you have some great techniques for what you do! Bravo.

Stunning build, amazing video. Thanks a lot!

12:58 I always use a light coat of repositionable photo mount spray adhesive on all my stencils. Easy to remove, almost never picks up paint, the effect gets better with repeated use, and ya don't get fuzzy spray. Also try spraying from farther away with a bit more pressure if you have loose stencils.

This was a very visually stunning project with next level weathering application! Quite impressive in finding the counter rotating moving parts as well as excellent execution of most of that... Now for the "other part"... You did a relatively good job with integrating the electronics that you used, however you could have ratcheted the whole project up a few notches by biting the bullet and learning a bit more of the electronics. There are many possibilities available that are really pretty easy to use and there are also programming languages that are little more than dropping operational "bricks" into place and telling them how long or number of times to run. There are also various magnetic and roller type switches that would have worked better without adding friction to the moving parts. With a little more thought, you could have also set it up to be more secure by adding contacts in certain places so only placing and turning the Droid SCOMP in the right places would allow the box to open using a simple servo. Overall, a bee yoo ti ful build with impressive attention to detail! I encourage you to keep at it and keep adding new skills to your "toolbox".

Incredible build and I liked how methodical and informative the vid was 🔥

awesome build. the leather is awesome and id even say before you did the final wash it looked a lot like cork as well

Never thought of using pastels for weathering, thanks. Friend's Dead Space cosplay about to get proper grimey.

This is incredible!! Thank you for sharing 😀

Really cool project! I keep learning new techniques to try from your videos. Keep up the great work!

We will watch your career with great interest

Excellent looking build!

Woah what you deserve WAY more subs!! So glad the algorithm brought me here, absolutely wicked build

The finished product looks like shots of an item inside a star wars video game or movie

phenominal work!

Nice work! I also expected 500k+ subs. Count me in!

This is so good! Subbed. I do wish that in the final reveal you'd used the mechanism. This is very inspiring.

Really nice build! I love all of the interactivity!

I just love the OT design, look and feel.

So first off that looks amazing two suggestions though, first is consider getting a starter set of student grade oil paints for weathering, there are some things that acrylics do better but for a general dirt/grease pass you can get a an equivalent if not superior weathering foundation cheap and easy. The second is a bit more niche, if your already going to get the white spirits for the previous suggestion I have seen some amazing results by dusting an area with pigment powders and then applying white spirits to the bottom of that area and letting capillary action draw it up across the powders on the surface, I saw this on a warhammer40k thing where the weathering powders from the base was up on the legs and they used a drop of white spirit as a pigment fixer on the base and was absolutely blown away by the texture of how the weathering powders settled around the knee joints.

Love the leather technique! I want to try that out!

Brilliant work! Really enjoyed this project! Subbed!!

Maybe it's another Bob Ross moment with happy accidents, but I think the stencils look really good. In real life, packaging stencils on crates are never perfect because they are usually done quickly, so the slight bleed of paint adds to that. We don't see that as much now with printed paper labels on cardboard boxes, but I'm sure there are still contemporary examples. The US military likes to stay behind the times so they can save money for the next big toy that glows in the dark, I'm sure they still stencil paint on wooden boxes quickly and carelessly, because the guys painting are quite rightly preoccupied with being in a war zone.

For support material on big flat surfaces. I’ve seen a couple methods both need to pause, throw a peace of painters tape on the last layer of the supports. Another method is to color the last support layer with a sharpie apparently it stops the layers from bonding.

THIS IS AMAZING

Absolutely wonderful really love end effect :) if there's one thing piece of advice I would give it's don't be afraid or made of or 2 really good dents bangs or dings on there. I handle quite a lot of old stuff and very seldom do you see a piece that only has superficial scuffs after any amount of aging. At some point someone will drop that crate on a metal grate or it might fall off of a shelf giving one of the corners a proper bash ^^

Ok this is really cool

This was a beautiful build! By the way, your voice sounds a lot like Chris Salomone from Foureyes Furniture. Your signoff really sealed it though. You have a very soothing voice.

Great build!

Those S shaped plastic welder staples are meant to go in sideways, so that the wire passes through the seam more than once. You can get smaller straight staples for the orientation you used.

Fantastic build! The only thing I would think that would add to it, would be some sort of sound then the box opens, like it is unsealing or the pressure was turned off.

Im not even a fan of starwars but damn thats a starwars prop if ive ever seen one

I think that the way the stencil quad blurry outlines makes it look more industrial like it is Made on mass or however you say that!

Thank you , great job

I barely comment on videos but dude, job well done!

I do think the overspray on the stenciling is good, it makes the box feel mass-manufactured, like someone just slapped the stencil on and sprayed it in because they need to make another 50 of these by the end of the day.

Amazing stuff as always, the leather technique looks really cool

Amazing work! Thanks for sharing.

Fantastic build and just beautiful work!. As an fyi, I think the tape you used to allow lock pieces to spin freely was a drawer glide (or slide) tape.

So amazing! Wonderful! 🏆😊

So, I think the black stenciling on the side was another happy accident. Briefly, I worked in a US military ammunition factory, and we had stencils we would use with "French's Mustard Yellow" paint (yes, we called it mustard). If you were behind schedule and sloppy with the stencil, overspray getting under the stencil was unavoidable. This makes your effort completely believable.

There’s an Etsy store that sells metal Scomp Link “skeleton keys”, but I don’t know if they actually fit the specific Scomp Interface model you found.

Wow, I cannot believe how many lessons I got from this one video, awesome work! Would you ever consider printing a soft material for the interior leather section?

instead of just electrical tape, on the back of the led leads, you should coat something like that in silicon or epoxy. or maybe hot glue. sort of like potting the electronics so they'll never work loose.

Poggers video my guy

I know it's counterproductive, but I wish more connectors were unnecessarily complex like this. Like, USB is a neat protocol, but I love the haptic feedback of, like, a nice M12 or GX16 connector that people sometimes use on custom keyboards. Also, I think the imperfections of the overspray on the stencil isn't a bad thing at all. If anything, it conveys the feeling that this was done on a factory line by underpaid Sullustans; not like they'd care much for the quality of the paint job as long as it was legible enough.

thats so cool

Try liquid latex for masking

I would pay money for one of these !

Amazing

Some awesome weathering advice I heard from Adam Savage of myth busters and Industrial Light and Magic (made the OG star wars practical effects) is that you should over do paint weathering just barely and then clean it as best as you can, because that's how real life works.

sick project....but why didnt you use the scomp link in the glamor shot???

2 things, i love the look of the somewhat feathered edges of the stenciled sides. this gives it that utilitarian vibe. and second.. using bloody pastels as pigment powder.. .. you telling me i am using expensive AK powder for my minis and i could use pastel chalk? .. sonova..