Pault17 Posted May 18, 2022 Share Posted May 18, 2022 Play on a fishing theme. The simple one was my first. The less simple was next, then, and then. The skeletons are mild scrap and the heads n tails are sheet stainless (scrap, again) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted May 19, 2022 Share Posted May 19, 2022 Love em Pault. A very marketable item to the right crowd. Keep making them and have some at hand when more people want to buy them. I like the progression of detail as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted May 19, 2022 Share Posted May 19, 2022 Those are all awesome. Each one has it's own unique features. I love fish bones.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted May 19, 2022 Share Posted May 19, 2022 I love them Pault. I agree with Das it's a very marketable idea. You have me trying to imagine a way to work a skeleton fisherman into the scene. Well done! Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted May 19, 2022 Share Posted May 19, 2022 I just wanted to add, I like the use of rivets. It gives me ideas, ideas. I would probably welded it all together. Also if you ever wanted to build bigger sculptures like that, say for coat hooks or whatever, planter/cultivator disks have a built in curvature for heads and tails. Not trying to hijack your topic with a picture of my own or anything but I started a prehistoric phirana and here is the head made out of a disk showing the curvature. Keep in mind, it's a start. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted May 19, 2022 Share Posted May 19, 2022 I love your fishy sculptures Scott, all that one needs is a leg bone or maybe skeleton foot in it's mouth. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted May 19, 2022 Share Posted May 19, 2022 Thanks Jerry. When I get set up, I am going to replace those ugly plasma cut teeth with some forged, curved, tapered razor teeth. No more about it though, I was just suggesting a idea to Pault17. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted May 19, 2022 Share Posted May 19, 2022 Next step is Dinosaur skeletons! (Use the claws to hold keys...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted May 19, 2022 Share Posted May 19, 2022 I see it in my minds eye. Velociraptor claw sticking out of the wall, claws outstreched. Hello scratched up face, goodbye eyeball. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anachronist58 Posted May 19, 2022 Share Posted May 19, 2022 Errr, yeah, Scott. Best hung above eye level, methinks! Pault, love yer fishy hooks... Robert Taylor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted May 20, 2022 Share Posted May 20, 2022 A skeletal pterosaur hanging from the ceiling with reflective mylar wings and LED lights in the ribs shining on the winds for room light. Hmmm? I wonder what holographic mylars cost, that way the LEDs could cycle along the ribs and the reflected light change. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted May 20, 2022 Share Posted May 20, 2022 Right, Robert. That would make quite a conversation piece. Multi colored LEDs? Pterosaureses wing span ranged from 12" to 30' according to wikipedia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted May 20, 2022 Share Posted May 20, 2022 Nothing wrong in building your room to fit your furnishings! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted May 20, 2022 Share Posted May 20, 2022 Heck nothing wrong with living in your furnishings. . . Well maybe not much wrong a lot depends on the weather. Hmmm, a pterosaur that weather vanes and the wings flap slowly in the wind could generate power for it's own light show and your appliances. Ooh ooh, it would have to feather in a strong wind of course but how about it folds it's wings down to the ground in the process. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted May 21, 2022 Share Posted May 21, 2022 I would add some lightning rods and maybe a wheather station with one of those windspeed spinner indicators so it knows when to feather and fold. This reminds me of a tale I told on here years ago. Good memories on IFI. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted May 21, 2022 Share Posted May 21, 2022 A little animation and the velociraptor could drop your keys into your hand when commanded to... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted May 21, 2022 Share Posted May 21, 2022 Taking them from you might be a little nervous making though. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted May 21, 2022 Share Posted May 21, 2022 Remember how they gave the after dinner mint to the fat glutton right before he exploded on Monty Python? Use a 16' 2x4 to give them back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted May 21, 2022 Share Posted May 21, 2022 I'm having trouble picturing driving with that key fob in the cab. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted May 21, 2022 Share Posted May 21, 2022 I was thinking of leaning it on the house till you come home (board with a hook on the end?).... but.... could you put some hinges on it? A collapsable key fob? Still kind of bulky.... I suppose now we are just being silly and unrealistic, but it's fun and exercises the imagination. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted May 21, 2022 Share Posted May 21, 2022 Silly's good, I LIKE silly. Hard as that may be to believe. I suppose we could hinge it like a folding door. How about a telescoping want? Something flashy, chromed that auto extended and retracted, perhaps using compressed air. Recharge it in the cigarette lighter or a wall plug charger. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted May 21, 2022 Share Posted May 21, 2022 You know, these day's anything is possible and people that think like we all do are getting rich beyond their wildest dreams. Maybe there are spies on here stealing ideas to line their own pockets.... Your telescopic contraption may be the next big thing. I guess you just need hard work and a spokesman that call's Liberty Mutual libbberty bibberty. Or lucky star. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted May 21, 2022 Share Posted May 21, 2022 I'm getting so rich enough to buy something without Deb asking what and why is beyond my wildest dreams. Of course it WOULD be nice to have a larger RV, not worry about filling the tank or paying the driver, house maid and wash wax lad. An old acquaintance used say if he were rich he'd have an A-10 on floats. That'd be worth learning to fly. You can see similar extending wands in many magic acts, probably get one at a costume/magic shop. That's where my idea came from, they even come with alligator clip ends. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted May 21, 2022 Share Posted May 21, 2022 I treasure your ideas. Does it matter where they come from? I had a dream last night about that anchor and chain and a sculpture of the Flying Dutchman that's been in the back of my mind. That's an idea. Maybe I can work alligator clips into it. I think if I were rich I would make as many people happy as I could. It doesn't buy true happiness, that's up to you. But it can keep the creditors off your back till you figure it all out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted May 21, 2022 Share Posted May 21, 2022 One of the things I love about Iforge is it's a place I can let the voices speak and only once in a while get in trouble for it. That some of the gang can use some of my ideas is great. These things feed on each other in my mind like a pun thread, it's the same process in here anyway. We seem to have a feedback loop going and I'm loving it. Alligator clips sparks a vision of The Dobby bowsprit dangling a caricature politician from it's talon over a congregation of hungry alligator clips. (I looked it up just now, a group of alligators is called a congregation.) Of course they could be after Capt. Hook. Hmmm, I see . . . things! I don't know what or how much I'd do for folks, I've seen the results of giving people too much my whole life. Unfortunately it's painful to be able to help and not do it. Building a business, provide training and jobs and take all the heat from the gimme crowd hardly seems relaxing or peaceful. Then again peace and relaxation is so narrow an existence. I doubt that'll ever be a problem for me but I wouldn't mind taking a shot at it. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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