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Other Stuff => Workbench => "Build Something" Archive => Topic started by: Tarnegol on February 26, 2024, 08:06:14 PM
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I couldn't face another Biblical build, so I'm going to have a go at something to reawaken my 'resting' Paleo Diet project. I'm not not entirely sure of the final form, but I intend that it should include a shelter (perhaps a hollow tree trunk), water (either a pond or a stream), medicinal plants, skulls and at least one standing stone. As always I shall include a bird, in this case a rather nice 3d printed hoopoe, which I shall ruin with paint!
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Ah! Going for an Oldie but a goodie! :D
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Sounds really intriguing :)
Don't forget the bones and a rock for them to paint hands and sacred animals on ;)
Best of luck!
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Here we go:
The first few bits; a plywood hexagon base, a piece of polycarbonate for the water, a 3d printed mammoth skull, some interesting stones and some laser cut herbal medicine...
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This already looks cool as a pile of components! 8) 8)
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What a good horde of materials to start with.
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So, the first bit of making. A 3mm thick, 300mm diameter plywood hexagon with a layer of 3mm mdf to allow the formation of a 'pond'.
A bit of glue and filler, and most obviously and importantly a stone circle. All Presceli Bluestone with the exception of the single white stone on the right of the picture which is ulexite, 'coz I wanted a white stone and was unable to find a suitable bit of quartzite!
And the answer, in this case, to the 'What music...' thread elsewhere is Wishbone Ash, Argus.
Bonus points for identifying the original of the 'pond' shape...
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Absolutely clueless on the origin of the pond shape I'm afraid, but it's looking very promising already!
Any particular reason for the white stone? Some intrigueing piece of fluff perhaps?
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Any particular reason for the white stone? Some intrigueing piece of fluff perhaps?
There is a stone circle in Cornwall, Boscawen un, which has 20 odd granite stones and a single one of quartzite. It has prodded my curiosity for years, but have yet to invent the fluff!
As for the pond shape a fellow Wiltshireman or reader of Michael Dames may get it...
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Is it the Summoning Dark?
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Herewith the next stage - the base has been thickened, due to warping, and the pond deepened. (Incidently, the pond shape is nicked from the one that forms around Silbury Hill during the winter.) Eventually the skulls of the Honoured Dead will hang from the mammoth's tusks and the clear cylinder at rear left will be replaced by a hut/shelter, probably a bender in the finest tradition of the Stonehenge Free Festival. I have some squatters waiting to move into the hollow tree.
My apologies for the abominable colour of the background!
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It's just a glorious sunrise/sunset :D
Looking good.
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Nice progress; I like the mammoth skull!
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nice start
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Nice progress; I like the mammoth skull!
Seconded. I used to have that same skull, fear I might have thrown it away at some point, was a wonderful sculpt.
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Very nice stone circle. Having been to Silbury Hill in winter I can see where the pond idea came from.
I might have thrown it away at some point
People...voluntarily.....throw things.....away???? My wife keeps telling me that this is a possibility but I am skeptical about discarding the precious things. lol lol
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Whereas my wife tells me if I don't she will...
Thanks all for the kind words.
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Cosmetic sponge hives/honeycombs in the hollow tree. Yes, there will be bees!
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Using sponges for this purpose is an inspired idea! Looks both great and not a little menacing...
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This is such an interesting build. Looking forward to the end result.
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Nice weather today, so hopefully a productive day ahead.
The latest addition is the shelter, shown here.
Hopefully I'll complete the dirt and undercoat on the base over the next day or three, after which I'll have to operate in secret due to details and painting thereof.
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That is a really nice shelter.
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That is a really nice shelter.
Thanks, but you can't see the hole at the back end! I'm going to have to send out the hunters for a suitable hide.
...and an extra one for a door...
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The shelter looks brilliant but I was going through the process in my head, that I would go through to build it and is seems it would be fiddly as anything to make.
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It was! Find two appropriately sized Y shaped twigs (from a larger branch found on the ground whilst walking the dogs at the local cemetery).
Drill holes in the base, glue suitably Ys into holes, and come back a couple of hours later.
Add ridge pole and A frames, as well as adding a single angled pole at the back to form a bell-end. (Careful!) Leave to dry.
Add poles on the sidea and back, parallel to the ground. Hold in place with crocodile clips. Again leave to dry.
The aforementioned poles are sold as model rail loads, but appear to be textured bamboo skewers.
Add lashings from off white thread; for looks not structure.
Thatch with model rail reeds. Use spray PVA type glue, hold in place with cardboard, insulated from the sticky stuff with silicon baking paper and more clips.
Add more thatch as required and also 'rope' to make it look as if it's not glued together and 'logs' to cover up the mess caused by glue and gravity.
I shall add a needle-felted aurochs hide door.
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It absolutely looks the part though!
Not unlike the huts me and my mates used to build in the woods when I was a wee lad...
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It absolutely looks the part though!
Not unlike the huts me and my mates used to build in the woods when I was a wee lad...
Thank you, and yes, I channelled the 12 year old Boy Scout I used to be!
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Here we are then - the last picture before painting. It's fair to say there won't be a lot of painting. I have the skulls and bones, birds, bees, a few toadstools and the hidden elemental spirits to add, along with a hemp plant, obviously for making rope rather than any other purpose... (Thats what the fly agaric are for!)
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That is truly lovely and will look amazing on the table
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That's superb!
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Thank you, I'm very happy with it, and will be even more so when the details are there.
I filled the pond after taking the picture, so a couple of days setting/drying then finish the bits.
Despite being happy with it I didn't enjoy making it as much as I do buildings - it came to be a bit of a slog, and I'm glad it's (mostly) finished!
Now to paint a hoopoe...
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Very nice build. Looks almost finished even without the paint.
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That which you can see is pretty much finished, and requires no paint. However there are multiple details to be added that do require paint. Nevertheless I confess to feeling a bit of a fraud/cheat by using so much natural material which remains in its original forn and a bit of already coloured static grass!
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Finished!
Pictures tomorrow, as sun is promised, then cutting, pasting and retaking pictures because I failed to notice the out of focus bits.
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The sun arrived as threatened. Pictures taken, pruned, grafted and sent!
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The sun arrived as threatened. Pictures taken, pruned, grafted and sent!
Got your email, but the picture did not arrive sadly