Making the Medical Kit

Friday 28^th October

Process: Making the Medical Kit

I started off buying a meter of brown cotton, I the lined my bottles up and measured the length, width and depth. I then made a pattern using my measurements and multiplied it by 3. I also made a pattern for the middle flaps, which was half the width and ⅓ of the length of the whole kit. I then proceeded to pin on the pattern and cut it out. After I put them back to back so the inside was on the outside and started to pin and sew the kit up starting with the middle flaps.

Leaving one bottom seam open I used some spray mount to stick some cotton wool on the inside so it wouldn’t bunch up or move, I then turned the kit out and used some more spray mount to put some cardboard into the middle section of the kit where the bottles will be held. Then I sewed up the last seam with the black ribbon in the centre. I then aged the button by scraping sandpaper over it and sew the button just above the ribbon.   

 I got some regular elastic and dyed it using coffee, and then I marked out where to sew by putting the bottles down and marking it with a pin. I made sure to stretch the elastic around the bottles so that they wouldn’t fall out. After I had pinned it all I sewed the elastic on I did the same for the separate equipment like the scissors and twisters.

To make the white circle and red cross I used the outline of a masking tape roll, and used acrylic paint, to make it smooth I went over the top with some sandpaper. I then made it look older by going over the fabric with sandpaper and a file, and then I got some coffee to stain the fabric and also mixed some silver and black paint and dry brush it across the fabric.

Making the Bandage Packets

Saturday 22^nd October

Process: Making the Bandage Packets

I first got some standard calico that I could make my packets out of, and then got started on my labels. I was going to do the labels on Photoshop, but after thinking about it, I am very new at Photoshop and found I could create the same thing using a normal word document, that way I could do it at university and at home.

I started with writing the labels I had researched out normally on word, and then started playing with the fonts so I found the right ones. The paper one I printed off normally and aged the paper by ripping, burning and coffee staining the paper.

The fabric printed one I used some freezer paper ironed onto the fabric that then goes through my normal printer. I used some Fixative to keep the ink from running. I then aged it using coffee; I then sewed up the packets leaving one side open. Then padded both of the packs with cotton wool and finished sewing up.    

Photoshop

 Friday 23^rd September

INTRODUCTION TO PHOTOSHOP:

Today we had our first Photoshop lesson, we learnt how to fix pictures and get colour balance right in a photograph. We also learnt how to get rid of unwanted things by using the cloning stamp and healing tool.  

Friday 30^th September

In this lesson we learnt about layers. We cut out a necklace from one picture and resized it and placed it onto another picture.

Friday 7^th October

In today’s lesson we learnt how to do different filters and placing.

Friday 14^th October

Today we took pictures on Photoboof and distorted them. We then learnt how to take that image and place it onto another image.

Friday 21^st October

In our last lesson of Photoshop we recapped everything we had done and had a play.

Bottles, pills and labels

Friday 21^st October

Process: Bottles, pills and labels

I got the old bottles when my boyfriend and I bought them from a car boot sale, when he thought they would be perfect for my project. I also bought some of my bottles I made the bottles look older by scratching down the caped ones with sandpaper, the others already had corks. To get the grubby grimy look I got some sand and mud, and wetted the inside of the bottles and shook the mud and sand around inside.

In one of the bottles are some pills that I made out of Giotto Plastiroc, which is clay that dries in the air. I used a pen lid to get the roundness of the pills and a ruler to make the indent on the top. I waited for them to dry, and then painted them white, giving them 2-3 coats of paint. After they had dried I then added them to the bottle.

For the labels I researched some old medicine bottles and their labels and made a replica of the Sloans label then proceeded to come up with my own label.

Sloans: to make this I opened a word document and using text boxes to organise where the text was placed I wrote what was on the bottle, and then fiddled around with the text fonts and sizes. To make the red line with white lettering I made the text box red and the writing white. And the lines on the sides I used the shape tool.

Dr Hunts: is my own design and creation, after making the Sloans label I decided that I wanted to make my own. I used my boyfriends as my model.  As he had said jokily “why don’t you make one for me? It can be called Dr Hunts Hemp Tincture”, so I did. I got a picture of him as well to use as the logo which I inserted into a circle shape which made the picture circle.

Lastly I ripped them a little and then stuck them onto the bottles I then aged them using some coffee. Job done, some old looking bottles, pills and labels.     

Making Bread and Cheese

Tuesday 18^th October

Unit: PROPERTIES &TRANSFORMATION

Demonstration: Making Bread and Cheese

First of all I got a block of polystyrene and drew my outline on the top.

 I used a snap off knife to then cut out a rough outline. I then got the straight file to get the basic round shape of the bread, and then I used the sand paper to smooth the edges.

 After doing that I used the round file to make the groves of the bread, then using the sandpaper I smoothed the harsh edges of the groves.

 After making sure my work area is cleaned off I laid down some newspaper and got some watered down PVA and cut up squares of muslin.

I painted the PVA and put the squares of muslin over the bread to make it firmer and give it a better finish. After it being dry it was time to paint, I started with a very light brown and dry brushed the darker brown over the top, mixed some whit in with the dark brown on the very top and let it dry. When it had dried I put a little PVA on the bread I sprinkled a little talcum powder on the top to make it look like flour.       

Then I did the same process to make the cheese.

Seminar

Monday 17^th October

Unit: PROPERTIES &TRANSFORMATION

Seminar:

Today’s seminar was to talk about the props we had started to make and whether we needed help with any of it. We talked more of what to make the props out of as well.

Materials

Tuesday 11^th October

Unit: PROPERTIES &TRANSFORMATION

Demonstration:

Today Andy spoke and showed us about the different materials we could think about making our props with. He spoke about the different polystyrenes, how you could carve them and create loads of different types of objects, from fruit and vegetables to an iron.    

Chavant is a type of oil based clay that won’t dry out or crack. It comes in three types; hard, medium and soft. Plasterleen is very similar to Chavant just cheaper. Super Sculpey is like clay that can be used for detail work. Plaster which Andy made the helmet mould out of, and different types of wood.

Seminar

Monday 10^th October

Unit: PROPERTIES &TRANSFORMATION

Seminar:

In today’s seminar we talked about what things we could possibly make our props out of, bought in things which we adapted in some way, or things that were made from scratch. Andy also asked us if we had and questions and if we had ideas about what we would like to make. But like most seminars everyone was silent.

Imperial War Museum

Saturday 8^th October

Vist: Imperial War Museum.

Today I went to the Imperial War Museum with Laura; I found it very interesting and helpful. The trench experience was brilliant but horrid at the same time, I was like being there, and the smell was hideous. It also gave a good sense of what the soldiers would of had with them like cigarettes, matches, food etc...

The museum was very good and informative but I found that I didn’t show anything of home life. But I did get a lot of pictures to go into my research. After my visit I have decided that i would like to look at medical more than anything else.

Moulding and Casting

Tuesday 4^th October

Unit: PROPERTIES &TRANSFORMATION

Demonstration: Moulding and Casting

Today we learnt how to make a mould and cast an object. To make a mould you need a 3D object and put a dowel on the end to make a clean mould and can also create a pouring hole. Andy glued the dowel onto thermo plastic:

·         5.10mm higher then, the highest point of the object.

Diagram of the box with
the object inside.

He then cut 4 walls using the thermo plastic (the box can be made of anything though). Using the plastic weld he bonded the walls to the base, then welded wall to wall, base to base etc... Check for gaps, and fill in with a hot glue gun.

Next he mixed up the mould rubber and hardener (10 to 1). The hardener is a green colour so you can tell when it’s mixed up. When mixing it will bring air into the mixture, which you can get rid of by putting it into the vacuum degassing machine. While in the machine you must wait until the dial go’s all the way to the left, you must also let the air back in slowly, roll the mixture till all the surface bubbles are gone. After he poured the mixture on the side of the box, not onto the object because this could cause bubbles. He gave it a wobble to make sure it was level, and wait for 4 hours (using fast cast) or 24 hours (slow cast).

Then he made up the cast mixture using A & B resin (1 to 1), shaking both bottles first and checked for the right pigment. For this cast he made up 100g (50g to 50g) and mixed them up well. He poured it into the mould about half way and gave it a shake to let the air escape, then continued to fill it to the top.

For a flat mould (like a medal) he poured a little casting mix onto it and pushed it into the nooks and crannies. After he filled the rest up and put some tape covered plastic on top and weighed it down with something, then wait for it to dry, clean up and paint.   

Health and Safety & Risk Assessment

Monday 3^rd October

Unit: PROPERTIES &TRANSFORMATION

Lecture: Health and Safety & Risk Assessment

Today we had a talk about health and safety in our work environment. This mainly told us to wear protective clothing while doing different things, e.g. goggles while in the woodwork room, masks while fibre glassing and boiler suits while painting etc... we also learnt how to work safely, like not to let wires drag on the floor etc...

Research

World War One - Timeline

Date	Summary	Detailed Information
28 June 1914	Assassination of Franz Ferdinand	The Balkan states of Bosnia and Herzegovina had been annexed from Turkey and taken into the Austro-Hungarian Empire. This was strongly resented by many Serbs and Croats and a nationalist group, The Black Hand, was formed. Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, and his wife, had decided to inspect Austro-Hungarian troops in Bosnia. The date chosen for the inspection was a national day in Bosnia. The Black Hand supplied a group of students with weapons for an assassination attempt to mark the occasion. A Serbian nationalist student, Gavrilo Princip, assassinated the Austrian Archduke Ferdinand and his wife, when their open car stopped at a corner on its way out of the town.
28 July 1914	Austria declared war on Serbia	The Austrian government blamed the Serbian government for the assassination of Franz Ferdinand and his wife and declared war on Serbia. Although Russia was allied with Serbia, Germany did not believe that she would mobilise and offered to support Austria if necessary. However, Russia did mobilise and, through their alliance with France, called on the French to mobilise.
1 Aug 1914	Germany declared war on Russia	Germany declared war on Russia.
3 Aug 1914	Germany declared war on France	Germany declared war on France. German troops poured into Belgium as directed under the Schleiffen Plan, drawn up in 1905. The British foreign secretary, Sir Edward Grey, sent an ultimatum to Germany demanding their withdrawal from the neutral Belgium.
4 Aug 1914	British declaration of war	Germany did not withdraw from Belgium and Britain declared war on Germany.
Aug 1914	Battle of Tannenberg	The Russian army marched into Prussia. However, because of the differences in railway gauge between Russia and Prussia it was difficult for the Russians to get supplies through to their men. The Germans, on the other hand, used their railway system to surround the Russian Second army at Tannenberg before its commander could realise what was happening. The ensuing battle was a heavy defeat for the Russians with thousands of men killed and 125,000 taken prisoner. Although the Germans won the battle, 13,000 men were killed.
13 Aug 1914	Japan declared war on Germany	Japan declared war on Germany through her alliance with Great Britain, signed in 1902
Sept 1914	Battle of Masurian Lakes	Having defeated the Russian Second army, the Germans turned their attention to the Russian First army at Masurian Lakes. Although the Germans were unable to defeat the army completely, over 100,000 Russians were taken prisoner.
29 Oct 1914	Turkey	Turkey entered the war on the side of the central powers and gave help to a German naval bombardment of Russia.
2 Nov 1914	Russia declared war on Turkey	Because of the help given by Turkey to the German attack of Russia, Russia declared war on Turkey.
5 Nov 1914	Britain and France declared war on Turkey	Britain and France, Russia's allies, declared war on Turkey, because of the help given to the German attack on Russia.
late 1914	Early stages of the war	The German advance through Belgium to France did not go as smoothly as the Germans had hoped. The Belgians put up a good fight destroying railway lines to slow the transport of German supplies. Despite a French counter-attack that saw the deaths of many Frenchmen on the battlefields at Ardennes, the Germans continued to march into France. They were eventually halted by the allies at the river Marne. British troops had advanced from the northern coast of France to the Belgian town of Mons. Although they initially held off the Germans, they were soon forced to retreat. The British lost a huge number of men at the first battle of Ypres. By Christmas, all hopes that the war would be over had gone and the holiday saw men of both sides digging themselves into the trenches of the Western Front.
Dec 1914	Zeppelins	The first Zeppelins appeared over the English coast.
7 May 1915	Lusitania sunk	There outraged protests from the United States at the German U-boat campaign, when the Lusitania, which had many American passengers aboard, was sank. The Germans moderated their U-boat campaign.
23 May 1915	Italy	Italy entered the war on the side of the Allies.
2 Apr 1915	Second Battle of Ypres	Poison gas was used for the first time during this battle. The gas, fired by the Germans claimed many British casualties.
Feb 1915	Zeppelin bombing	Zeppelin airships dropped bombs on Yarmouth.
Feb 1915	Dardenelles	The Russians appealed for help from Britain and France to beat off an attack by the Turkish. The British navy responded by attacking Turkish forts in the Dardenelles.
Apr - Aug 1915	Dardenelles/ Gallipoli	Despite the loss of several ships to mines, the British successfully landed a number of marines in the Gallipoli region of the Dardenelles. Unfortunately the success was not followed up and the mission was a failure.
after Feb 1915	Winston Churchill resigns	Winston Churchill, critical of the Dardenelles campaign, resigned his post as First Lord of the Admiralty. He rejoined the army as a battalion commander.
April 1915	Zeppelins	The use of airships by the Germans increased. Zeppelins began attacking London. They were also used for naval reconnaissance, to attack London and smaller balloons were used for reconnaissance along the Western Front. They were only stopped when the introduction of aeroplanes shot them down.
early 1916	Winston Churchill	Winston Churchill served in Belgium as lieutenant colonel of the Royal Scots Fusiliers.
April 1916	Romania enter the war	Romania joined the war on the side of the Allies. But within a few months was occupied by Germans and Austrians.
31 May 1916	Battle of Jutland	This was the only truly large-scale naval battle of the war. German forces, confined to port by a British naval blockade, came out in the hope of splitting the British fleet and destroying it ship by ship. However, the British admiral, Beatty, aware that the German tactics were the same as those used by Nelson at Trafalgar, sent a smaller force to lure the German's into the range of Admiral Jellicoe's main fleet. Although Beatty's idea worked, the exchange of fire was brief and the German's withdrew.
1 June 1916	Battle of Jutland	The British and German naval forces met again but the battle was inconclusive. The German ships did a great deal of damage to British ships before once again withdrawing and the British Admiral Jellicoe decided not to give chase. Although British losses were heavier than the German, the battle had alarmed both the Kaiser and the German Admiral Scheer and they decided to keep their fleet consigned to harbour for the remainder of the war.
28 Nov 1916	First Aeroplane raid	The first German air raid on London took place. The Germans hoped that by making raids on London and the South East, the British Air Force would be forced into protecting the home front rather than attacking the German air force.
Dec 1916	Lloyd George Prime Minister	Lloyd George became Prime Minister of the war time coalition. His war cabinet, unlike that of his predecessor, met every day. However, there was considerable disagreement among the members of the Cabinet, especially between Lloyd George and his war secretary, Sir Douglas Haig. Lloyd George suspected Haig of squandering life needlessly and was suspicious of his demands for more men and freedom of action in the field.
21 Feb - Nov 1916	Battle of Verdun	The Germans mounted an attack on the French at Verdun designed to 'bleed the French dry'. Although the fighting continued for nine months, the battle was inconclusive. Casualties were enormous on both sides with the Germans losing 430,000 men and the French 540,000.
1 July - Nov 1916	Battle of the Somme	The battle was preceded by a weeklong artillery bombardment of the German line which was supposed to destroy the barbed wire defences placed along the German line but only actually succeeded in making no man’s land a mess of mud and craters. The five month long battle saw the deaths of 420,000 British soldiers (60,000 on the first day), 200,000 French soldiers and 500,000 German soldiers all for a total land gain of just 25 miles.
1917	New war commander	Lloyd George, who had never trusted his war minister's ability to direct the war, persuaded the Cabinet to appoint the French General Nivelle as supreme war commander over Haig's head. Haig was assured that the appointment was for one operation only and that if he felt the British army was being misused by the Frenchman he could appeal to the British government.
July - Nov 1917	W.front Passchendale	The operation commanded by the French General, Nivelle, went wrong and caused the loss of many French soldiers. Haig protested to the British government and advocated trying his own scheme for a breakthrough. At the resulting battle of Passchendale, Haig broke his promise to call off the battle if the first stage failed because he did not want to lose face with the government.
1917	Churchill Minister of Munitions	Following the heavy defeat at Passchendale, Lloyd George decided that he wanted Churchill in the Cabinet. Churchill was duly appointed Minister of Munitions.
1917	Reinforcements sent to Italy	The Italians had lost many men trying to hold the line between Italy and the Central Powers. British and French reinforcements were sent to hold the line.
early 1917	German U-boat campaign	In Germany, orders were given to step up the U-boat campaign. All allied or neutral ships were to be sunk on sight and in one month almost a million tons of shipping was sunk. Neutral countries became reluctant to ship goods to Britain and Lloyd George ordered all ships carrying provisions to Britain to be given a convoy.
6 April 1917	USA declares war on Germany	The United States of America declared war on Germany in response to the sinking, by German U boats, of US ships.
Nov 1917	W. Front Cambrai	The British took a large force of tanks across the barbed wire and machine gun posts at Cambrai.
Dec 1917	Treaty of Brest-Litovsk	Following the successful revolution by the Bolsheviks, the Russians signed an Armistice with Germany at Brest-Litovsk. The terms of the treaty were harsh: Russia had to surrender Poland, the Ukraine and other regions. They had to stop all Socialist propaganda directed at Germany and pay 300 million roubles for the repatriation of Russian prisoners.
April 1918	RAF formed	The Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service were merged to form the Royal Air Force.
8 - 11 Aug 1918	Battle of Amiens	The British general, Haig, ordered the attack of the German sector at Amiens. At the same time the news came through that the allies had broken through from Salonika and forced Bulgaria to sue for peace.
mid Oct 1918	Allies recover France and Belgium	The allies had taken almost all of German-occupied France and part of Belgium.
30 Oct 1918	Armistice with Turkey	The allies had successfully pushed the Turkish army back and the Turks were forced to ask for an armistice. The terms of the armistice treaty allowed the ally’s access to the Dardenelles.
early Nov 1918	Hindenburg line collapsed	By the beginning of November the allies had pushed the Germans back beyond the Hindenburg line.
9 Nov 1918	Kaiser abdicated	Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated.
11 Nov 1918	Armistice signed	At 11 am, in the French town of Redonthes, the Armistice was signed bringing the war to an end.

  http://www.historyonthenet.com/WW1/WW1_timeline.htm