This is a quest to make all the slides featured in the Whittlin Jim's "Slide of the Month" in Boy's Life magazine. (Hopefully without doing lasting damage to my hands or fingers.) Blogging my progress along the way. I completed my task in March of 2017 and now post my own designs along with some other "Slide of the Month" contributors.
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Sunday, March 19, 2017
Milkweed Butterfly
Sometime between 2012 and 2015
Time to carve: .5 hours
Finishing: 2 hour
It's interesting to me that this slide is called the Milkweed Butterfly and not the Monarch. Was this because the larva eat milkweed? Anyway the body was carved from a piece of scrap wood and painted with craft paint. The antenna were made from a couple of bristles from a paint brush which was super glued into some holes drilled into the head. I sealed the body with a couple of coats of poly. The wings were an image I found on the internet and printed on a color laser printer. I cut out the sections of the wings and glued them to some black foam board. Once the wings shapes were cut out, I glued the top segment to the bottom segment then glued the wings to the body. A wooden loop glued to the back finishes up the slide.
When researching the milkweed name for this butterfly, I stumbled across this article
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