Airship project #4

Last night I went to get a mounting table for a circular saw from my family's summer cottage where it was stored (while I was there I took this series of Alchemist's laboratory- photos for my project. More in Facebook)
and made some boards for the sides:

Kids. This is why you should always stand off from
the sawing line. This is about 5 meters behind me.

Today I'll start figuring out how to glue these boards to places. I prepared to this by taping the other side to get a clue how it might work:

It might work like this.
The medieval chick is from fairytale book, I took pictures of them because
there are some kick-ass illustrations. She's there just to fill in the empty square..
don't think too much.

Test tube rack

Something like five years ago I bought five test tubes from local crafts store because, well, test tubes are cool. I've been planning to make a rack for them ever since. Now I found them and finally did it. It still lacks a some sanding and staining, but you get the point:

Airship project #3

Today I got the arcs glued on their places. Next step is to start attaching boards to them.. and that's going to be one hell of a work. I have to start by sawing those boards first, then steaming them and finally fitting and gluing.. fortunately, I have lots of time. Which is why I got to start this project in the first place.

Airship project #2

Starting to trace patterns on a 6mm plywood.
That's an old woodcut plate made by my mother. She didn't need it anymore.

Here you can see better the material

Roughly cut pieces

This is how far I got yesterday (didn't have time to upload photos until now).

Airship project #1

A few weeks ago I went to see this new Three Musketeers movie. It was quite entertaining (no-brainer but entertaining) and left me with an obsession to those Da Vinci's (allegedly) airships (see pic here).

I've been planning and visualising a miniature since then and today I started making 1:1 scale drawings.
It's just the beginning for the structure and heavily based on English an Flemish galleons from 17th century but I'm quite excited.

Our Lady of Serpent Slaying

I don't know if this kind of technique has fancy name of its own, anyway I coated a glass plate with black wall paint and scratched the picture on the fresh paint with a wooden stick (first object I found on the floor).

The whole thing took like five minutes to do, although I have thought this for quite a while.

I might continue with this.
I should get an even-coloured, illuminated background for it so it'd show well.

Self portrait- project #2

Light layer of paint and Y-cut in the chest. 

Here you can see better the lamp it's hanging on