Bride of Frankenstein

[brewdexta]

I have a commission to make an "armature" for a figure for an arts trail. The figure is a 4:3 scale woman waving from behind a large hedge, she has one arm on the hedge. The figure will be stuffed with plants so no need for any facial features. She has to have large "balconettes" to stuff with plants, evidently these are large upper decker flopper stoppers as we called them at school. Its only from the waist up thankfully.

This was my first attempt at anything arty in metal, and also my first attempt at doing any human figures other than cartoon doodles at school so a bit of a challenge. Also as its going to be stuffed with plants its not really that representative of the human form.

I'm not going to be charging much, its for a friend and it was agreed over a bottle of wine, so I have used what materials were to hand, mainly some 10mm rebar and some welding rod but I did find some smooth 10mm rod and a bit of thinner stuff.

Remind me not to use rebar and thin welding rods again, a complete pig to mig, the combination of rusty rebar that is difficult to derust and different size of metal meant loads of bird crap welds.

Here it is folks, just need to rig up the kite and wait for a storm

She has a flat head as there's a sun hat to go on. I have made the rings for this, just need to weld it up then fill in the rest of the body with 50mm welding rod mesh and off she goes to London in the back of the car Tuesday morning.

Cheers
Andy

 

[brightspark]

what size ti,,s er i mean brA cupsize is that

 

[brewdexta]

what size ti,,s er i mean brA cupsize is that

As rolls royce say, sufficient plus 50%

 

[brewdexta]

When I showed it to the kids the eldest (8) said that her tutor at the ukelele festival had bigger boobies

 

[brightspark]

When I showed it to the kids the eldest (8) said that her tutor at the ukelele festival had bigger boobies

kids never lie where did u say the lessons were held

 

[CRB]

Chunko beware.

Another skill you did not know you had. That is nice, and massive cupholders.

 

[gordon stephenson]

If you had based your "balconets" on my missus, you would have run out of steel. (and the rest of her is only slim" I think when they were dishing them out she swapped her brains for a bigger portion)
Nice armature by the way, Top job. (Chunko will be tearing his beard out)

 

[brewdexta]

Thanks guys, but I don't think I will be challenging Chunkolini any time soon There must be about 50% superfluous steel in there and quite a lot of hours, hats off to him making a living out of art, its hard work. I must admit I'm quite chuffed the way it turned out as as I'm not known to have an artistic bone in my body. I reckon I could do it in half the time next time.

Here's some pics of it in development, with a close up of the bazookas first . Rolled on a metalcraft ring roller. Rings for the arms wrapped out a piece of drainpipe, rings for the head formed around the air cleaner off the Dexta.

 

[chunkolini]

That's great, I have pondered making things like this, will she be filled with compost or whatever.

 

[pedrobedro]

That's great, I have pondered making things like this, will she be filled with compost or whatever.

Is that the polite way of saying "full of manure" now as in "man you are so full of compost"

 

[brewdexta]

That's great, I have pondered making things like this, will she be filled with compost or whatever.

I believe so. The lady who commissioned it used to make those huge costumes for the Notting Hill Carnival and is a keen gardener so I am assuming she is knows what she is doing She gave me a sketch and a brief including minimum mesh size and where there needs to be access to stuff it with fleece and compost etc.

The hands were supposed to be thumbs then paddles for fingers so they could be stuffed with plants but I forgot that part of the conversation and it wasn't in my notes however she has seen the pictures and can work with the fingers OK.

I tried to put a bit of movement into it, the left boob is bit higher than the right as she is raising her arm however if she is wearing underwired corsetry then I guess it wouldn't move much externally, just the contents would jiggle about a bit. I did consider searching google images for "large breasted woman with arm up" however I think I may have got more than I bargained for

The arms are a bit thinner than scale to allow the plants to fill them out a bit so she doesn't end up with bingo wings however there needs to be enough mass to take on water or it will dry out quickly.

 

[octo0072000]

looks brill brews name is now changed to Chunko2

 

[brewdexta]

Finished it at lunch time, body filled in with mesh, floppy sun hat and a coat of etch primer. Now to see if it will fit in the back of the Disco.......

 

[brewdexta]

I delivered it at 8 this morning, this meant getting up at 2:30 to drive down then straight into work for 9. It was worth it though, she is over the moon with it, that makes it all worth while . I'll post some pics in a few weeks when its planted up and waving to the neighbours.

 

[octo0072000]

Brew how many hours do you reckon to make it ball park figure

 

[brewdexta]

as i did it dribs and drabs its difficult to pin down but around 30 including head scratching. Second time around with some decent steel and the design simplified that could come down to two days.

 

[gerrymoore]

Brilliant...I know from experience it's not easy!!

 

[brewdexta]

Thanks guys, I decided to spend the cash on a new lid, Lincoln Viking mojo with the free goodies heading my way for £169. It was a spur of the moment thing, I didn't realise jim davey sold them otherwise I would have bought it from him

The old lid was a 30 quid jobbie and was a pain in the **** to get it right on your head so you could see through the little slot, it was more like jousting than welding. Ideal for when you need a mate to help you hold stuff while your welding and a good spare.

By the end I was just getting the hang of welding thin rod together without blowing it apart so good practice.

 

[Wendelspanswick]

Thanks guys, I decided to spend the cash on a new lid, Lincoln Viking mojo with the free goodies heading my way for £169. It was a spur of the moment thing, I didn't realise jim davey sold them otherwise I would have bought it from him

The old lid was a 30 quid jobbie and was a pain in the **** to get it right on your head so you could see through the little slot, it was more like jousting than welding. Ideal for when you need a mate to help you hold stuff while your welding and a good spare.

By the end I was just getting the hang of welding thin rod together without blowing it apart so good practice.

I bought one and it's brilliant, although the Mother In Law says I look like a LA gang member with my free Lincoln welding cap on!

 

[octo0072000]

as i did it dribs and drabs its difficult to pin down but around 30 including head scratching. Second time around with some decent steel and the design simplified that could come down to two days.

thanks for that