basementdweller
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Thank you for sharing 
Very inspiring stuff.
Very inspiring stuff.
5th Element: Mr. Kim's Boat 1/35
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Utterly fantastic. I cannot wait for pictures of the finished and completed piece !!!
joeydee
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Thanks a lot
Some words about the bamboo:
The rooftops are made from paper, cut a zillion times, then added some wire.
I did a lot of experiments here, with different papers and foils. I ended up with a simple 80g paper. It tends to tear easily when it gets wet by painting, but gives a nice irregular structure.
Bamboo sticks: wire insulation, cut in pieces, shifted on a thinner wire, then carefully heated and pushed together.
Plastic tubes of any sort work as well. I used insulation with diameters of 1 and 1.5 mm from phone cables.
Paintet with light brown acrylics and weathered with wood stain oak medium.
Best use is guitar strings for straight lines, brass or any other wire for bows, and copper wire for power supply to the lanterns. As you can see, I didn't have enough guitar strings at stock but I was able to change some of the wires afterwards.
Glued with cyanoacrylate, depending on the material.
In this case, first a thin silver wire was pushed through the shaft, then an enameled copper wire.
Some words about the bamboo:
The rooftops are made from paper, cut a zillion times, then added some wire.
I did a lot of experiments here, with different papers and foils. I ended up with a simple 80g paper. It tends to tear easily when it gets wet by painting, but gives a nice irregular structure.
Bamboo sticks: wire insulation, cut in pieces, shifted on a thinner wire, then carefully heated and pushed together.
Plastic tubes of any sort work as well. I used insulation with diameters of 1 and 1.5 mm from phone cables.
Paintet with light brown acrylics and weathered with wood stain oak medium.
Best use is guitar strings for straight lines, brass or any other wire for bows, and copper wire for power supply to the lanterns. As you can see, I didn't have enough guitar strings at stock
but I was able to change some of the wires afterwards.Glued with cyanoacrylate, depending on the material.
In this case, first a thin silver wire was pushed through the shaft, then an enameled copper wire.
Ratpackapunch
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Mr. Kim would be proud of this boat
FordPrefect
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Great Stuff !
Just watched the movie and some of the behind the scenes yesterday - love the boat scene. I always wonder if this was in any way a salute to the Bladerunner noodle scene?
thanks for sharing !
Just watched the movie and some of the behind the scenes yesterday - love the boat scene. I always wonder if this was in any way a salute to the Bladerunner noodle scene?
thanks for sharing !
FordPrefect
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Just re watched the movie last week and was pleased to see such a project this week.
Great job it just POPS ! You captured Mr Kim's boat perfectly.
Great job it just POPS ! You captured Mr Kim's boat perfectly.
joeydee
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Thanks again @all
Here's some of my work: http://www.therpf.com/showthread.php?t=120&page=13&p=3999998&viewfull=1#post3999998
Not much finished yet, I (re)started modeling back in 2014. More projects are work in progress.
soon
Here's some of my work: http://www.therpf.com/showthread.php?t=120&page=13&p=3999998&viewfull=1#post3999998
Not much finished yet, I (re)started modeling back in 2014. More projects are work in progress.
