Saturday, April 19, 2025

Slide of the Month Extra: Chicken Jockey!






April 2025

Time to make: 3 hours

Finishing: 2 hour

Original design:  Bill Macfarlane

3D file: Peter Farell - Chicken Jockey : Minecraft the Movie









Chicken Jockey! (...and the crowd goes wild!)

I couldn't resist making this slide after seeing this phenomenon and after all it's just fun. While I really wasn't interested Minecraft, my son played it right up into college.

Printed on a 3D printer with white PLA filament, based on the file above, I peeled away the base to give me the start of slide. Next i filled void on the bottom chicken's feet with super glue gel and left it to dry. I painted the slide with multi surface hobby paint. Lastly t drilled a couple of holes in the back for a coat hanger loop. Neat slide!

Saturday, April 12, 2025

Slide of the Month Extra: Angry




 


April 2025

Time to make: 1 hours

Finishing: 1 hour

Original design:  Bill Macfarlane








It's April and as the snow disappears I find black walnut shells left by the squirrels in my yard. The odd part is I don't have any black walnut trees in or around my yard. I saw this half shell and it looks like an angry creature in the forbidden woods. 

The split in the shell was a natural mouth so I painted it red. I also added a couple beady eyes using a couple of quilting pins. I also filled the back to the shell with some 5 minute epoxy to keep the shells from falling apart and to give me something to mount the ring for the neckerchief 

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Slide of the Month: Untitled


 


April 2025

Time to make: still working it

Finishing: when I get around to it
 
Original design:  Bill Macfarlane








OK, just a few more minutes, hours, days till this one is finished....What was I carving? 

Once again just my odd sense of humor here on the first of April. Somewhat carved from maple. Kind of painted from hobby paints. Labeled using waterslide paper and sealed with a couple of coats of ... well haven't gotten to that step yet.