Head Maquette, Head Jig
Today I decided I needed an accurate maquette of my horses head before I made it out of metal. Using my technical drawings I cut out the...
Horse painting
I painted this to explore ideas on how the horse might look with different types of plating. I used colour to highlight the different...
Metal body B
I marked off on the steel bar where the ellipses should be and proceeded in the same way as for body A. This time I spot welded with far...
3D Printing wheels
I attended some Rhino lessons in order to be able to draw up wheel chair parts and wheels. I thought I might be able to draw up an...
Horse drawing
I then spent some time working out the proportions of the horse and its head, by layering it over the technical drawing.
Metal Body of Horse and Figure of Odysseus
I cut a metal bar to reinforce the support struts with an angle grinder and ground the edges smooth. I welded the support bars onto the...
Metal horse body A
I made a wooden jig to show where the ellipses needed to sit on the central bar, which I clamped to a surface. I then MIG welded the...
Metal strips
I cut strips of 0.8mm mild steel ready to create the body of the horse. These all needed sanding on the edges as they were razor sharp. ...
Revised Horse Head - cardboard maquette
After looking at more images of horses I revisited the technical drawings and the shape of the head to give a prouder attitude. I made a...
Cardboard head
I made a 1:10 sized card maquette from the technical drawings that I had done of a horses head and began placing pipe cleaners and other...
