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Old 05-31-2009, 12:41 PM   #157
yvanleterrible
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Congratulations to every one! We have many talented people on board. I wish though that we could sample some of the programming that many members of MR do because as I've often seen, we do have crafty people in these domains also. Peverel's robots are amazing, imagine the programming in that!

I'm afraid also that some people around here, who to me are special, did not show their works. Zelda is a graphic artist, Vivaldi Rules draws and Montsnmags does photography. I've seen bits of their work and there definitely is an artistic eye behind it. It would please me very much to see some of it.

Some of you know that I've found work as a plug maker for concrete molds. Here is a picture of a styrofoam and epoxy carving of a renaissance classic. This is the reason I don't write much these days.
I've set a Troll in the picture to give an idea of size, roughly 12 inches(30cm) high by 48(122cm) inches long. Just kidding! It's 45 inches high(115cm) by 142inches long (361cm). It's by far the biggest carving I have attempted so far. For many practical reasons I carved it out of extruded styrofoam, the type without lttle balls. I veneer it after with a type of epoxy plasticine called Apoxie to give it a hard surface. Then I'll refine the shapes with traditional wood carving tools.

For those who want to know, carving foam is the pits. It finds its way everywhere. I clean myself with blasts of compressed air only to see it come back on me because of the static buildups. The house is filled with it eventhough the carving takes place in my shop/garage.

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