Previous Projects

I thought I'd put together a few of the projects I've done before I started this blog. Some maybe fairly recent, others not.

Handmade Christmas presents 2010

Vinnie the Vulture

Dragon Sculpture

VW Beetle

Animatronic Elephant
 


Handmade Christmas presents 2010

These are some things I made for a few friends for Christmas.

Scrap yard warrior


Car parts, desk lamp

Alien UFO reading lamp



Vinnie the Vulture



Eye Eye!



Dragon Sculpture

This is probably one of the first complete sculptures I did! It was part of my GCSE Art coursework, so I would have been about 15 or 16. Welding is shoddy and metalwork skills were fairly limited back then, but I still like the final piece.





VW Beetle

My beloved Beetle, sadly not in my possession any more, but still worthy of this archive, hope you agree?




Animatronic Elephant

The elephant was a project I did at university. I was part of the design team for a Theatre show called 'The Circus of Science'. I was initially responsible for the puppetry, which happened to be a 7 ft high robotic elephant / flying machine. The design included a fully drivable steel structure with pneumatic systems to control the elephant features such as eyes, ears and trunk. I learned a lot about mechanical systems in particular pneumatics whilst completing this project.

Head and trunk build

Front

Side

Controls for driving and elephant operation

On set