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Sandhill Crane

Frank Castiglione - Thursday, July 16, 2009 - 1:20pm
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Hey Dino, here's a crane I made that might give you some ideas for an armature.
Frank
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Thank you for the example

hautsteel - Thursday, July 16, 2009 - 3:30pm

Thank you for the example Frank!
I think I am gravitating toward creating the body from clay/wax or some unknown (to me - duhhh) medium and then forming with metal - eliminating the original medium somewhere during the process.


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Paper Patterns

Frank Castiglione - Thursday, July 16, 2009 - 7:56pm

Hi Dino,
I've been using clay to make a model, then I cover the clay with paper(card stock). The tucks tell me where to shrink.The paper patterns tell me how to cut the metal pieces. This is nothing new but it might be to you.
Frank


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Hi Frank, Hey! That is a

hautsteel - Friday, July 17, 2009 - 8:45am

Hi Frank,
Hey! That is a great suggestion! Are you doing most of your shrinking and forming on a panel beater's bag?
Dino


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Stump

Frank Castiglione - Friday, July 17, 2009 - 9:04am

Hi Dino,
I do use a bag(old leather purse)occasionally.However it seems that most of the pieces are too small, so I use a variety of stumps with a depression carved out.Most of my dollies are home made.
Frank


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beating the old bag

visitor - Friday, July 17, 2009 - 9:49pm

you guys need to clean it up .that does'nt sound good "beating the old bag "c'mon


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