Wooden trains from the past!

Hey again.

I was rooting through my picture archives and came across a selection of the model trains we built at the start of the year. I think these were intended to be posted here before but must have slipped the net. Anyway these were the only ones I managed to recover but enjoy.








Sorry that I dont know who made each one, if you are the owner feel free to speak up via the comment box. Hope you're all having a good Christmas and New Year.

Love

Chewie

Faberge Egg's

Hey guys. The Faberge Egg project has ended finally after 5 weeks of hard work by everyone. We had a quick dash round everyones desk after you all left on friday and took some shots and on first glance there are some really cool eggs there.We're going to save highlighting the cool ones until term restarts so we can really leaf through everyones design work and references.

Regardless, we think what John said at the end of friday was really important. For those of you who think they havent learned much over this project just take a look at the skills acquired on it. Moulding in silicone, casting in resin, vac-forming over chemi-wood plugs, intricate paintwork, sculpting in clay, sculpey and other materials as well as turning reference materials into designs and onto physical pieces. We're sure we missed some skills and many people tried completely new things. Its very easy to overlook this sort of skills acquisition but we'd bet that most of you wouldn't have had a clue about this sort of thing when you first arrived!

Anyway, with it all over, heres the slideshow of everyones work (well, at least the ones who had theirs out on deadline!)

Thanks and Merry Christmas

The blogging team.

Architectural Project

Hey guys, so the architectural project ended a week or so ago with some really awesome results. Check out the slideshow at the end of this post to see the results of everyone’s creativity. Heres a small example of a couple of projects that really caught our eye!

The first is the awesome skeletal structure built by Shaun. Made almost entirely from hand cut pieces it’s a great example of how repeated patterns put together can make a striking final piece.

The second is Josh’s brass and copper creation. It really gives us the impression of some form of steampunk device as well as being really well made it’s a nice example of the different finishes you can get with metals.

Next is Andy’s amazing house based on the one from the movie ‘Up’ A really really intricately detailed piece its made using many different materials and really has a lot of charm and personality.

Finally is the the expertly made gallery space from Triss (Hope I spelt that right) This really looks like a professional architectural model and its obvious a lot of effort went into making this model.

We’d love to talk about so many of them but simply don’t have enough space! Anyway, we’d absolutely love to hear all your opinions about the project, what parts worked well, what parts didn’t, where you all went to for materials and just general stuff like did you enjoy it? Please leave a comment on this post with your opinions, don’t worry, this is totally informal and will not come back to you and if you’re that paranoid you can leave a comment anonymously!

Finally here’s the slideshow of all the model projects made.

Love

Your Blogging Team.