Hallucigenia – Modelling a dream.

[Gorby 17,213]

Ahhh. Now the Sillyput has dried too well and I'm having problems drilling into the little pricks.   

[Col. 7,396]

1 hour ago, Gorby said:

Ahhh. Now the Sillyput has dried too well and I'm having problems drilling into the little pricks.   

Perhaps if you didn't call them nasty names they'd be more cooperative?

[steelpillow 702]

19 minutes ago, Col. said:

Perhaps if you didn't call them nasty names they'd be more cooperative?

Now, now, let's not have any pointed remarks...

[Col. 7,396]

1 hour ago, steelpillow said:

Now, now, let's not have any pointed remarks...

So long as there's no below the belt jabs...  

[Gorby 17,213]

Finally got a chance to use use my Dremel for modelling.  Drilling the holes was easy once I bought in the heavy duty equipment….although it was little too over the top as couple of the little pricks split. Then I just stuck them on the leggy worm with super glue. I still need to blend them into the body.

Now, I'm going to show you a photo on the strict understanding that you don't compare it to the idealised, leggy-blond, size-zero, super-model picture I posted at the start of the thread. I mean, compared to the flaunting, flawless, overdressed/barely-dressed/bizarrely-dressed catwalk creatures, some of us may not even look like part of the same species to an alien.

Known to his mates as 'Stumpy'.

Stumpy had always been 'big-boned'. When it was pointed out to him that bones hadn't yet evolved, he had to admit that he was partial to third-helpings and often dreamed of a future when pies would exist. Although in reality his little legs wouldn't be up to the race to the front of the queue.

He ate to forget, but couldn't remember what he was trying to forget, which as worrying enough to cause him to eat. Perhaps it was his inability to attract a girlfriend, or maybe it was that he didn't know if he really was a he and wasn't sure if it was a girlfriend or boyfriend he/she was supposed to be looking for.

No wonder he didn't get chosen to represent the species in the fossil record, even though he was the spikiest of all his mates in the rock pool….. Perhaps if he got a piercing?

[Mad Steve 20,611]

Kuuuuuuuuuuuwell 

[Col. 7,396]

Nice progress Gorbs. Good to see you getting your monies worth from that tube of superglue as well

[Lost Cosmonauts 4,947]

I’m not sure if it is the influence of this thread butI’ve spent an inordinate amount of time today researching chirotherium footprints and air drying clays 

[RWG686 33,100]

22 minutes ago, Lost Cosmonauts said:

chirotherium footprints

Are you able to get access to Kildonan ?

[Lost Cosmonauts 4,947]

2 hours ago, RWG686 said:

Are you able to get access to Kildonan ?

Yes, and the other ones around the island. Might even be tempted by the giant millipede tracks near Hutton’s Unconformity 

I’ve been idly messing around with possible local souvenir t-shirt designs and mini cast replicas for the shop that hosts the makerspace

Edited March 12 by Lost Cosmonauts

[Lost Cosmonauts 4,947]

I blame @Gorby 100% for my activity of this afternoon

Fossil trace 

Laser cut stamps based on sketch outlines of chirotherium footprints from two different locations around the island 

 

The resulting impressions

 

And a little relief model of the triassic beast itself

 

[Gorby 17,213]

3 minutes ago, Lost Cosmonauts said:

That's brilliant. Love the footprints as well.

[Mad Steve 20,611]

Nice one LC, that's quite impressive sculpting 

[Gorby 17,213]

Managed to get a bit more done on Stumpy. I've blended his spikes into his rolls of fat and added some oddly shaped eyes. I've also bent his body to make him look a bit more interesting.

Why is it that no matter how small the piece of Milliput I cut off, a much larger proportion always goes to waste compared to what I actually use?

 

I've got to think how I'm going to add some tiny claws. I tried it with Milliput and decided that's much too frustrating, so I'm going to have a go at other methods.