chunkolini
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it has been a while since I have posted a blow by blow account of a project.
So here we go.
I have been asked to make a giraffe 6ft 6 tall in mild steel strip, using my approach of framing the subject and not over filling it in.
Customer is happy with my crap drawing skills and trusts me. great.
Agreed a price, took a deposit and went on hol's. Did not have a clue how to do it. Sat on a spanish mountain top it imagined itself to me. (new word?)
got back refreshed and busting for action.
First up.
My new blackboard, OHP and a decent image of the net.
I have found a great website that has 3d rendered images of pretty much everything you can think of. These make a great start. Probably cant post due to copyright issues, I might even ask the site owners if they are happy to have their images shared, I think asking is polite. They are for sale as packages, seek and you shall find. This is the one I have used as a starting point, print it off, trace onto an acetate, smart. as well as a bunch of photos and a lot of thinkinging action.
So scale it up with the OHP.
How did I manage without this? it even breaks in half to stop it trying to kill me as I move it.
First stage, make a basic frame for the body.
promising start.
The round bar ribs are a temporary fix to hold it all together, they will get removed as it progresses. (Spare ribs?)
Then have a flappy panic how d I make the fill in panels? make a series of polyhedrons (another first word on the forum for Chunko?) and connect them or make a load of straight lines and connect them?
While I was on holiday last week was reading a book about Antartica and saw a photo of a million year old dried out lake bed. Polyhedrons it had to be.
Hmm, not so sure as it is all tacked together, looks a bit messy.
Today it was hot hot hot, finish all the welds, then go outside and grind them clean, then do it again with a flap wheel. Hideous job in this heat.
People often tell me 'it must be wonderful being an artist' the truth is it is really, but this afternoon was vile.
Confess to being a happy chappie with the results, this is exactly what I had in mind. Looks almost like it was cut from sheet, not a collection of bits stuck together.
two days back this was a collection of ideas.
Occasionally things flow like this, wonderful when it does.
Next up legs. I have some ideas.
Will report back in a day or two.
Chunko'.
So here we go.
I have been asked to make a giraffe 6ft 6 tall in mild steel strip, using my approach of framing the subject and not over filling it in.
Customer is happy with my crap drawing skills and trusts me. great.
Agreed a price, took a deposit and went on hol's. Did not have a clue how to do it. Sat on a spanish mountain top it imagined itself to me. (new word?)
got back refreshed and busting for action.
First up.
My new blackboard, OHP and a decent image of the net.
I have found a great website that has 3d rendered images of pretty much everything you can think of. These make a great start. Probably cant post due to copyright issues, I might even ask the site owners if they are happy to have their images shared, I think asking is polite. They are for sale as packages, seek and you shall find. This is the one I have used as a starting point, print it off, trace onto an acetate, smart. as well as a bunch of photos and a lot of thinkinging action.
So scale it up with the OHP.
How did I manage without this? it even breaks in half to stop it trying to kill me as I move it.
First stage, make a basic frame for the body.
promising start.
The round bar ribs are a temporary fix to hold it all together, they will get removed as it progresses. (Spare ribs?)
Then have a flappy panic how d I make the fill in panels? make a series of polyhedrons (another first word on the forum for Chunko?) and connect them or make a load of straight lines and connect them?
While I was on holiday last week was reading a book about Antartica and saw a photo of a million year old dried out lake bed. Polyhedrons it had to be.
Hmm, not so sure as it is all tacked together, looks a bit messy.
Today it was hot hot hot, finish all the welds, then go outside and grind them clean, then do it again with a flap wheel. Hideous job in this heat.
People often tell me 'it must be wonderful being an artist' the truth is it is really, but this afternoon was vile.
Confess to being a happy chappie with the results, this is exactly what I had in mind. Looks almost like it was cut from sheet, not a collection of bits stuck together.
two days back this was a collection of ideas.
Occasionally things flow like this, wonderful when it does.
Next up legs. I have some ideas.
Will report back in a day or two.
Chunko'.
, that is looking mighty good, am watching this thread, really excited to see this take shape...
