The second of two objects done at the same time. Hairdryer heating coil, headphone speaker, cat toy, assorted screw caps, compact fluorescent bulb base, disposable eyedroppers, masonry wall anchor, power line insulator, laser printer ink bottle, flush valve nut.
Near our house, a Chola Cuencana statue. Also farm friends, hard to discern except the just-milked cow. Chola, as used in Ecuador, refers to an acculturating indigenous woman, but not, say, someone living in Amazonia.
Charlotte preparing for her role in the upcoming feline production of The Handmaid's Tail.
Inspired by stylized dolphin images in the heraldry of the heir-apparent to the French throne. Or as someone said, a fishing lure for Hieronymus Bosch. Soda bottle, turkey bones, disposable wooden dinner knives, snow-cone cup, drawer-pull escutcheons, rubberband.
Took less than a week. At the start all I had decided was to feature the translucent cobalt blue bottle. Other bits include clothespins, Vitamin C fizzy-pill tubes, Waffle House single-serve cream container, Epson ink-refill nozzles, valve from laundry detergent jug, compact fluorescent bulb bases, gypboard screws, windshield and pilot from the junkbox. Ended up with a Flash Gordon/ Buck Rogers vibe which was the result of the ingredients more than any design intent.
A couple of weeks, just a few parts. Every project generates ideas that don't get used. They accumulate in my head and on my legal pad until I play catch-up. Cranberry juice bottle, laundry detergent spigot, skewers, styrofoam take-out containers, disposable medical vials. Loosely based on the V-22 Osprey.
"A lighter is a type of flat-bottomed barge used to transfer goods and passengers to and from moored ships. Lighters were traditionally moved and steered using long oars called "sweeps."
The name itself is of uncertain origin, but is believed to possibly derive from an old Dutch or German word, lichten (to lighten or unload). In Dutch and German, the words lichter or Leichter are still used for smaller ships that take over goods from larger ships."
-Wiki, edited
My recent Space Freighter model used cat-food and tuna tin-cans as round cargo modules, not unlike the steel boxes in current use on container ships. Due to changes in our pets' diet, the big cans were soon replaced by small ones. This got me thinking about small ships that might operate on the edge of the atmosphere to unload bigger space-only vessels. Plus I had some discarded ideas that might work better in a more nimble context.
Parts list: Catfood tins, old lightbulbs, light sockets, power-pole insulator, bamboo skewers, Mylar sheet, Port-bottle stoppers, cocktail toothpicks, whiteboard framing, shower curtain rings, zipties, and yet another waving figure from Tamiya's 1/48 Zero/ Rufe kits.
Partly inspired by container ships, and lake freighters; and having a lot of small cans in the house lately.
Polikarpov I-16, 1/32 scale Soviet WW2 fighter. Love the baby-mammal proportions. I usually do at least a 2-color camouflage on warplanes, but I liked the simple contrast of green against red. As usual, the engine exhausts that came with the kit looked too puny. I replaced them with some bigger plastic tubing that gives me a more persuasive, if less accurate, fire-belching monster-motor vibe. Handpainted with craftstore acrylics, finished with finger-applied dry pastels.
Slogans often painted on Russian tanks and planes by factory workers as follows:
Бей фашистскую гадину! Bey fashistskuyu gadinu! Strike the fascist viper!
За Родину! Za Rodinu! For [the] Motherland!
