I’ve been getting the last bits of materials for the sculpture, slowly but surely. They are almost all in process and should be here soon. The deadline for me to deliver it is next Friday and it will be a close call for me to make it. I did find out that there is a small grace period so I don’t have to be quite so frantic.
Since the last entry I have put up the main structure of the sculpture and added some of the frills. The body and headdress pieces are much easier to work on laying flat in the shop than on the structure so I will try to get them as complete as possible before I weld them on. The biggest challenge is going to be putting on all the aluminum and brass accent pieces. They can’t be welded so I have to drill and tap holes for them so they can be attached with screws. Hundreds of them.
I made lots of progress over the weekend. I got all the steel welded together and ground smoothe for one side for the face, body and headdress. I also got all the steel welded and ground for the headdress on the other side. Monday I hope to get all the rest of the parts completed.
I will leave them unattached for now so I can more easily drill the holes for the accents.
Here is how it looked at the end of the day on Sunday.
It’s very Impressive!
Quite impressive! But it is massive.
How are you going to take it to whereever it needs to go?
Beautiful, but I too wonder how much it weighs!