When life throws you lemons. ....

BUILD A FLASH GORDON/DAN DARE ROCKET BOBSLEIGH THINGY!
I have been building some airfix kits of late and it is amazing how many parts I seem to have left over at the end.
After some momentary consideration they flew together into a possible maquette for later development.
I give you the retro futuristic jet sled. .?

MLC-3's big brother

Nearly there with the toy conversion, I have been itching to unveil her. ..name not quite solidly chosen. ..a rebel refuelling and maintenance tug for towing and topping up the fleet's x-wings and the like.

Cheap thrills

I have wanted one of these for an age, mostly for fun but also to teach simple programming to my children. Found it in a local charity shop complete and unmade. ..no instructions.  £2 you say?  SOLD!
Always up for a challenge, but equally happy to throw the whole lot in my greeblies box if it didn't work, you tube helped me out with the instructions and my archaic computer is the only thing that is still compatible with the software! Score one fully functional robot arm! !

Hybrid project

A recent couple of visits to my local charity shops have come up trumps with a couple of broken toys.

My plan is to hybridise these with a few other greeblies and parts to create a star wars toy aircraft tug as a re-imagined version of the only vehicle I owned from the original range. ..the good old mobile laser cannon ...MLC-3

Some progress shots to follow soon. ...

Last one before Christmas

This was a tricky one, not only having one unwilling participant - which did create one of the more interesting hand casts I've done, although a lot of work - this project involved a lot of misinformation and secrecy and smokescreening after one of the children let the cat out of the bag! All part of the job!!!
Collected on Christmas Eve, this beautiful piece was mounted on a gorgeous piece of yew (which I didn't want to part with) and the casts were fixed with polished lengths of rebar - from a family member, just to add that small personal touch.
Rebar - great for concrete reinforcement, not great as an artistic medium - it is very tough!!!
Thankfully, the recipient of this surprise loved every detail about it, job well done.

Full circle

I keep seeing those posts of "what my parents think I do", "what I really do" etc. Turns out I had a real life instance of "what my neighbour thinks I do".

Can you do this Red Arrow model for me? I need it as a cake decoration.

Erm not really what I do....ok.... When for?

Lunchtime tomorrow.

Urgh

It is still the same kit that I made (badly) as a child.... and ironically the first model I made with my son.. But I do feel somewhat vindicated as it is a truly terrible kit and would not fit together anyway!

Late night. .. built in the semi darkness of the kitchen after the children had gone to bed. ...meh!

Life casting in volume

Since taking some casts of my newborn's hands and feet, I seem to have generated a casting frenzy. Including my daughter demanding it as an activity for her birthday party. ...6 year olds hyped up on party food? Let's just say it was educational. It has however led to some other, more practical projects. The first of which went out today.