By Unorthodox, on May 7th, 2012
Been working dirt a lot lately.
Talia has thuroughly enjoyed her role as “the flower boss” and our little shopping trip together so she could pick out our flowers was quite fun. She’s always thrilled to see them blooming, and getting new ones.
Her “Magic” flowers, that open with the sun and close at night are the favorites, I think.
And, we finally have an official garden.
Renting a sod cutter and clearing out most of the grass there made for a full day with Kyle. Mostly making room for corn and pumpkins, of course. We need to clean out the grass along the fenceline by hand, as I want to keep my raven grass along there, and there were some old bush stumps that need to be dug out, couldn’t just run the sod cutter through there.
All the dirt didn’t stop me from getting the kids out to play, though.
The train was especially fun since the tigers were restless on a rather chilly Saturday morning.
And the Lion was letting them know who was boss. Not often you get to see one ‘talking’.
Of course we had to hit the terror ride as well. Don’t think I’ve ever noticed that figure lurking off to the right cubby here. There’s stuff coming out the door and windows that distract from it. Lots of little treasures like that on this ride.
The best part was that it broke down and lost some power while we were on it. Alec and I stuck in the dark surrounded by skeletons, with nothing but the scary music playing was priceless. If I ever get to build a dark ride, I would include a long pitch black stretch. Nothing scares people more than their own imagination.
By Unorthodox, on April 29th, 2012
May not be the most transformative process, and I’m not exactly sure it really pictures well, but we’ve started sanding Trevor, and it’s really coming ‘alive’ when seen in person. All the little lumps smothing out, it’s just looking “right”.
Also got a little blast from the past this weekend, as wind picked up and rolled out the carcasses of our pumpkins from last year. I really don’t know why some of them retained their shape in the compost pit, most just flattened out as they rotted. A few, well, they became these shells…which made me think the the body snatcher pods had landed.
This one still had Talia’s name scar in it.
And, we’ve built a couple more pleurant for the tomb.
Still trying to figure out a little somethin’ to do for Walpurgisnacht tomorrow….
By Unorthodox, on April 16th, 2012
I konw it’s been a while, but I’ve been up to my elbows in clay for nearly a week, it seems. Kinda hard to break away, get pics, and post.
Its started as “we’ll just touch up some areas here and there”…but Trevor has consumed me to the point where it became a full on transformation. I apologize to anyone in the Ogden/Layton Utah area attempting to find DAS clay. I’ve systematically cleaned out all hobby stores selling it at a reasonable price. Even then I had to resort to some of the terra cotta color.
(Lilly there inspecting the work.)
Toeses.
Start of the left side. I finished most the left leg as well, but failed to get a pic of it.
The sculpt is about 80% done I have a bit of the left leg left to finish, and then there’s a little sanding and cleanup work to do. I can’t wait to get him all painted up…
By Unorthodox, on April 2nd, 2012
Trevor the transi got a lot of work over the weekend.
Is there anything more fun than messing with actual CLAY? I needed the fingers finished so we could do the next major step…
With them finished…it was time for that whole shroud business these transi were famous for.
Views of the right side.
Moving around to the left.
A good shot of how the tomb as a whole is coming along.
One might be tempted to say we just need to add some toes and the lid is ready for painting, but there is still quite a bit of detailing work to be done to Trevor now that the basic elements are all in place.
By Unorthodox, on March 26th, 2012
Time to put Trevor together.
Wrists/hands and feet/ankles were all cast from my son’s respective limbs. I’ll need to do some sculpting of toes/fingers.
All joints were held together with just more foam. Even made a little pillow for him to lay on to get the right angle on the body. That part will eventually be covered with monster mud.
More great stuff for the knees, and hooking the feet on.
Thighs were made by draping the bottom half with plaster wrap, then filling with more foam, and sculpting it and fitting the top half with plaster.
After six hours and running out of plaster wrap, however, it was time to take a break from Trevor.
With any luck we’ll have him finished up next weekend, and MIGHT even get to getting the monster mud. Lid is definitely nearing completion. that said, something about Trevor now having arms and legs makes him especially creepy to me.
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