Stop-motion Animation

Tonight I made a short animation, here you are:

Airship project #6

Some more boarding done

I also started to prepare an (experimental) structure for the actual balloon.
It should be Zeppelin-shaped and as light as possible, so I decided to try a technique I recently heard of:

My mother had seen some dude, who made sculptures by rolling tiny, tight tubes of newspaper and then attaching them to each other with thread and glue.
This technique allows lightweight structures that still have strength to support considerable linear stress, and can be constructed in same way as traditional Finnish christmas decoration, straw-made "himmeli" (see photo). Besides, material suits a zero-budget project like this...

I did a few tubes to try it out. These are relatively thick and have many layers in them. Still, each piece required a piece of newspaper that was roughly the final length (a bit shorter actually) and about 7 centimeters wide. Add a couple of drops of paper glue and you can think how light these are compared to their strength:

That's one page of Helsingin Sanomat.

I also drew a sketch to plan on the cross-section for the balloon so I could make a test "slice" of the structure:

This has 16 surfaces for the covering,  I think that's close enough to round.
Haven't tried it yet, stay tuned.

This paper structure - if it seems to work - will take lots of time to complete but I'm quite excited.

Airship project #5

Today I reached a couple of remarkable stages: I started boarding the sides an made the main deck.
Here you go:

First board glued. I'm a bit proud of those wire holders, invented them myself.

Fitting a paper model of the deck

Fitting the actual deck. It's made of same stuff as the sides.
I know it'd be  HUGE if one was to think in realistic scale..
well I'm not, this is a fantasy project.
Besides I'm associating this more with old sailors' time-killing activities
than precise modelmaking.

Couple of other views of the deck.
It's starting to look like a ship, little by little :)

Finally I glued second boards to each side.
The front side's curve is a bitch to bend so it'll need heavy adjusting later.

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).