On a Roll

Of sorts.
Boy, once I get started it hard to stop.
So today, I finished up the UFT II.
If you haven't been following along at home, you can see the first UFT here.
I needed to get it done today for I started on Sunday and it was starting to dry out.
The other night I started to get some inspiration for what I wanted to do with this thing. I had a basic idea, but I was missing some pieces.
So today, I added some landing gear:



This was tricky.
As you can see, the pot actually rests on a chuck, a ceramic round thingy, so that I can attach the wheels. I'll fire it that way.
Making the landing gear is risky, for they could fall off or be unable to support the body once fired. I also could have improved them structurally, but that wouldn't be any fun.
I also wanted to make one tire, well, flat, but that would have made the thing asymmetrical and we can't be having a lob sided pot.
So I just patched the tire and inflated it:



I was going to try and make it really roll, but I'll save that for another project. For this one, the wheels are fixed.
Then, I started to get really stupid thinking like "if I fill this up with dry ice and make some holes in the nozzles, it'll look likes it's taking off."
Luckily, I woke up.
I added some portholes to the lid, complete with cracked window:



Just for fun, I added another patch to the spout:



The idea was to create something that looked "well traveled" and sort of derelict.
I put some patches on the handle too, just to add more character, but I'm not real happy with it.
The handle I mean.
Here's one last image, just to give you the overall idea of what's going on:



I assembled the whole shebang on a kiln shelf so it would be easy to load. In fact it's already sitting in the kiln, where I won't be tempted to touch it.
I don't plan on doing anything else to it, I feel like I've sort of got all the teapots out of my system.
At least for now.
Hey! what happened to that other UFT?
Well, after doing this one, I sort of ran out of steam. I put it in plastic thinking that maybe something will come to me.
In a dream perhaps.
A wild dream.
I'll try and fire this stuff up on Thursday.
Hopefully the wheels don't fall off and roll to the bottom of the kiln.