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Wow, my last updat is half a year ago, then it is definitely time to scrape together the courage and start. Since I just wrote the piece on HOW TO MAKE ORNAMENTS, I wanted to continue with this. Just a change of work to pick up the spirit of working on this ship again.
For over a week now I have been preparing to make the figurehead, the lion. Lots of after-work, photoshop, test pieces and fitting before I can make a start on this. The pictures and drawings in the building plans in Winter's book are downright bad. The pictures below show this as well. Meanwhile, I have started and have cut a block of European Buxus to size to fit the spot. (oversized)
This was a tough job to get to this point. I wanted to do it by hand, but have come to the conclusion that I need my power tools, as the boxwood is quite hard. It has also been waiting in my wood supply drawer for a while. And I also notice that my hands don't always cooperate when strength is needed.
In any case, it looks very cozy again at my workstation. No plastic residue from the 3D printer (also a very fun hobby and it took me some time and money to get that old printer up to date)
The construction plans show roughly the size of the lion, but Winter's drawing and measuring skills leave quite a bit to be desired here and there. But we cannot complain and we are very happy with the book he left us. Without it, there was nothing more. The pictures are very unclear and I must look for better pictures. I know that Peter ( @Olympic1911) has a very large arsenal of better quality photos, but I can't reach him. If anyone has more data on him, I would love to hear about it.
These where the only 3 pictures in the book, the rest look like this one below.
So my first attempt was with the building plans to make something out of that and then transfer it to the wood from scratch.
That turned out to be nothing and I couldn't get the proportions right.
I had also downloaded the image of Willi's (@schifferlbauer ) lion and printed it out to size. But this lion is not a Dutch lion. You can also see it in the picture, a bit more detailed than Winter's. Chapeau Willi you should have adopted Winter's drawing skills.
Photoshop is something I'm good with and so let's go ahead and scan the photos from the book and transform them into something usable.
I can do something with that and will cut it out and stick it on the block to cut out the outside lines. The rest will go from hand with free interpretation. I am enormously looking forward to the job and I don't know if I will succeed. But I have that with every carving I start. The first moment of beginning is the hardest thing to do. Maarten once said in another topic that you have to imagine the object you want to carve in 3D and he is 100% right about that. That's why I always put some sample photos on my PC and I look at them regularly to imprint the shapes and proportions in my mind. That always helps me tremendously to translate this into wood.
I hope you will continue to follow me on this voyage and I can show you how I achieve one thing or another. As mentioned, over time this piece of wood may land in the wastebasket and I may have to start over. We shall see. Thanks for visiting my post.
PS. What is a lion a magnificent animal, in my search for pictures I came across the 2 lions of Tsavo, The Ghost and the Darkness. I seen that movie and it was impressive how dangerous these lions can be.
For over a week now I have been preparing to make the figurehead, the lion. Lots of after-work, photoshop, test pieces and fitting before I can make a start on this. The pictures and drawings in the building plans in Winter's book are downright bad. The pictures below show this as well. Meanwhile, I have started and have cut a block of European Buxus to size to fit the spot. (oversized)
This was a tough job to get to this point. I wanted to do it by hand, but have come to the conclusion that I need my power tools, as the boxwood is quite hard. It has also been waiting in my wood supply drawer for a while. And I also notice that my hands don't always cooperate when strength is needed.
In any case, it looks very cozy again at my workstation. No plastic residue from the 3D printer (also a very fun hobby and it took me some time and money to get that old printer up to date)
The construction plans show roughly the size of the lion, but Winter's drawing and measuring skills leave quite a bit to be desired here and there. But we cannot complain and we are very happy with the book he left us. Without it, there was nothing more. The pictures are very unclear and I must look for better pictures. I know that Peter ( @Olympic1911) has a very large arsenal of better quality photos, but I can't reach him. If anyone has more data on him, I would love to hear about it.
These where the only 3 pictures in the book, the rest look like this one below.
So my first attempt was with the building plans to make something out of that and then transfer it to the wood from scratch.
That turned out to be nothing and I couldn't get the proportions right.
I had also downloaded the image of Willi's (@schifferlbauer ) lion and printed it out to size. But this lion is not a Dutch lion. You can also see it in the picture, a bit more detailed than Winter's. Chapeau Willi you should have adopted Winter's drawing skills.
Photoshop is something I'm good with and so let's go ahead and scan the photos from the book and transform them into something usable.
I can do something with that and will cut it out and stick it on the block to cut out the outside lines. The rest will go from hand with free interpretation. I am enormously looking forward to the job and I don't know if I will succeed. But I have that with every carving I start. The first moment of beginning is the hardest thing to do. Maarten once said in another topic that you have to imagine the object you want to carve in 3D and he is 100% right about that. That's why I always put some sample photos on my PC and I look at them regularly to imprint the shapes and proportions in my mind. That always helps me tremendously to translate this into wood.
I hope you will continue to follow me on this voyage and I can show you how I achieve one thing or another. As mentioned, over time this piece of wood may land in the wastebasket and I may have to start over. We shall see. Thanks for visiting my post.
PS. What is a lion a magnificent animal, in my search for pictures I came across the 2 lions of Tsavo, The Ghost and the Darkness. I seen that movie and it was impressive how dangerous these lions can be.
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