chunkolini
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I always like to have a personal project on the go. Something to tinker with when I feel like it.
My son hassled his folks for a pet Chameleon, grudgingy helped him buy it, and the lamps, and the thermostat, and the heat rock, and make the house for it, and buy the sodding bloody crickets that escae and are aover the house. Te he he the airing cupboard in His room, they love warm places. They are also noisy so and so's.
Anyway I found myself fascinated by it, then found a website by an American scientist who prep's skeletons for display.
http://asm.wku.edu/faculty/huskey/
I got in touch with the guy, he uses beetles and bugs to create the skellybob then glues it back together. Awsome stuff.
Anyways, I figured I would have a go.
I think I am getting there, I have had to take a few liberties with him but seems ok
Drilled a line of holes in a piece of strip, smaller towards the tail, cut themout with a cutting disc, the rounded them with a die grinder. Then spot welded the ribs on made of 3mm gas rods. Hands covered in tiny spatter burns. I will probably grind the welds back and braze over them for a nicer look. Wiht this kind of nionsense I find it best not to keep tally of how long it takes.
I currently have a few biggish jobs on the go and it is nice to go and fiddle about in between times, as long as the fiddly thing does not take over.
To be continued.
(heventually)
Chunko'.
My son hassled his folks for a pet Chameleon, grudgingy helped him buy it, and the lamps, and the thermostat, and the heat rock, and make the house for it, and buy the sodding bloody crickets that escae and are aover the house. Te he he the airing cupboard in His room, they love warm places. They are also noisy so and so's.
Anyway I found myself fascinated by it, then found a website by an American scientist who prep's skeletons for display.
http://asm.wku.edu/faculty/huskey/
I got in touch with the guy, he uses beetles and bugs to create the skellybob then glues it back together. Awsome stuff.
Anyways, I figured I would have a go.
I think I am getting there, I have had to take a few liberties with him but seems ok
Drilled a line of holes in a piece of strip, smaller towards the tail, cut themout with a cutting disc, the rounded them with a die grinder. Then spot welded the ribs on made of 3mm gas rods. Hands covered in tiny spatter burns. I will probably grind the welds back and braze over them for a nicer look. Wiht this kind of nionsense I find it best not to keep tally of how long it takes.
I currently have a few biggish jobs on the go and it is nice to go and fiddle about in between times, as long as the fiddly thing does not take over.
To be continued.
(heventually)
Chunko'.
