My Metallic doodles.

[Tundra]

I figured I'd show these off to add some activity, and provide some amusement.

For around 2 years I was under education to be an industrial metal worker/smith/blacksmith, and I had the chance to make some rather amusing metal doodles.

During our first year (more like within the first 6 months) me, and a few friends went a little overboard, and made a 2 meter tall, pure steel skeleton. It gave us some attention, and since then me, and that group of friends were assigned all the more fun projects.

This palm tree was built to stand in the reception as a small oasis. We also added a lounge chair for it.
As a fun little doodad we added a small monkey that sits on the side of the tree itself. It was made mostly of 2 hollow cylinders for the head, and body. As a result we made flames shoot out It's ass, and vice versa.







I have yet to get some pictures of the finished tree, but we did add huge steel leaves to it, we then painted green.

This face was to be part of a rather large garden gnome.



Unfortunately I quit before I got the chance to finish it, but we did manage to make the "skeleton" for the body, and the pants.
I also made a small scale Scythe for him, mostly by hand.
I've yet to take pictures of the Scythe, but I probably will sometime soon. Along with new pictures of the Skeleton (Named Ed).

[Mr.Black97]

I thought you were making cocaine!

[skullcollector]

Can't wait to see more pics!

[Frost]

Nice! sounds like loads of fun. can't wait to see more pics.

PS. that monkey must have been eating tabasco sauce as its only diet. XD

[slayer77]

Some nice metal doodles there Rath particularly the Gnomes face looking forward to seeing the scythe and other pictures of the doodles you've worked on.

[Tundra]

My usual image host has gone haywire, so thats why the first images aren't showing, and the cause for my sig/avatar change.

But I just switched to someone else, so here is the skeleton.



That's the upper portion of it, showing it off pretty nicely.



Sorry for the poor quality of the face close up.
This is the second version of It's face, made under stress in 30 minutes purely out of welding wire.
The first version we did was supposed to be comprised of lots, and lots of small parts we'd then weld together for the face itself. It was also supposed to have hollowed eye sockets where we'd attach LED lamps for effect. The guy in charge of putting the head together screwed that up royally, so we ended up with a butt ugly head.
This second version was simply sculpted as it was welded, modeled after a skull borrowed from a biology class.



All the bones were made, and sculpted from X Rays we found on Google. We got the measurements from the tallest guy in the team, and then added some more to it.
The arms were made from tubes, and solid steel rods for the for, and under arms respectively. Solid steel pieces were attached to the ends for the realistic look, and then many hours were spend making them round.
We welded more on top of them, and then grinded them down for the shaky, uneven look, and the shiny look.



Both feet were made completely identical by a guy we never really talked to. While It's hard to see on the picture, the detail is quite amazing, and one of the things we're most proud of.
They were made of dozens of tiny pieces, built in pairs so they looked identical, and polished down for the near perfect look. Except we somehow neglected to add proper heels.
Also, some of the names we welded onto his platform are visible.



The hip section. Made from the old fasioned hammer, and anvil method. Heated up, and then hammered into shape.
If i recall, It's 5 MM steel plates.
Probably the most solid pieces, the hips section took a substantial amount of time over 2-3 weeks to polish down. The femurs, which i personally made, were made of 3 or 4 MM hollow steel tubes, with lots of welding added to the top to add that curvy bit. Following that I spent many hours polishing it down to make the shape seem right.



Detail of the hand. A hand was actually the catalyst for this whole project.
I came to the school one morning, and heard we were building a whole skeleton because one of the guys already made a hand.
The Original hand was removed when we revisited the skeleton, along with the whole arm which now sits on the wall with the guy who made it, acting as an ashtray, or coat hanger.
All the hands are made in the same way, lots of tiny pieces welded together, then molded into shape, and then polished up.
4 hands are in existence. The Original, the 2 attached to the Skeleton, and 1 unpolished one given to our teacher who forced us to finish the project. It sits in a glass cabinet flipping passers by off.



Other side of that hand, showing more of his beer mug.
Originally we'd just taken a piece of round wood roughly the same size, and burned "Tuborg" into it. One day that was removed, so we constructed the steel mug, and welded it too his hand. They haven't taken it away yet.



His back, showing his shoulder bones, spine, and the pole keeping him vertical.
The chest area is a remnant of the first version. It was all like that, very edgy, and had a very unpolished look to it. Same with the shoulder plate, which was also made with a blowtorch, hammer, and anvil. Unfortunately it was made by the idiot who made the first face.



Close up of the spine.
Most of the work i did was polishing, and making all the parts.
But the spine was all me apart from putting the pieces together, hence the massive welding lumps in between, the face guy screwed that up too.
The spine is made of around 24 pieces of solid steel. I sawed a solid steel rod into those 24 pieces, and then heated them up greatly, and hammered them into the proper shape. It took me nearly 2 days for all the parts to get the right shape. I nearly burned through a plastic bucket that i used to cool down the pieces.
Following the assembly I then added the smaller rods that go out the back. And when we did the second version I added the smaller pieces to the side.


That is essentially the whole thing. It stands a little over 6 feet tall, on It's platform it's probably more like 7-8 feet.
The only time any of us counted the total number of bones was me during the end of the first version, i stopped counting at 187. It was probably less than 200 with the first one, and between 200, and 220 on the second version.

[Fireblight]

Wow! That looks really cool!

[Tundra]

Oct 28, 2011 1:00:16 GMT -5 Fireblight said:

Wow! That looks really cool!

Thank you.

I'm not sure if I mentioned this earlier or not, but they did remove/demolish the palm tree we made, but my friend did manage to save the monkey.

I haven't figured out If my scythe remains intact since I forgot to ask when I went to take pictures of the skeleton, but I'll try to get around to it eventually.