For the mercy seat, I needed to create a 3- level tier base.
Sheet metal was used to create the connecting slopes.
Nearly finished lid understructure.
Finished group of 5 leaf details.
Cris sculpting a section of lotus leaves.
Finished lid understructure!!!! That's alot of aluminum!
I cloned sections of sculpted leaves by molding groups (top leaves and bottom leaves are different)
Roughing together the trunk.
Yeoch!! Nearly 300 leaves hand-placed across the lid!!!!!
Continuing the placement.
Lathed parts for the feet and top-post details.
Cast duplicates of the feet and ribbed post-finials.
Sculpted story panels for the sides.
Story panel resin reproductions.
Story panel molds.
Engineering the sides of the trunk to allow side panel installation.
I missed TONS of steps (trim details, gallery figures etc.) so this pic skips ahead MANY steps.
Gold Plated components.
FINAL assembly sessions begin!!
FINISHED ARK. CLICK the ark gallery for photos.
The result after molding the fabricated parts:
Roughing-in the Lotus leave sculpture.
To cap the corners, a separate leaf scupture was created, molded, duplicated, then vacuformed, then curved to fit the corners.
Molding the new sculptures with RTV
Scratch Building
the Ark of the
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Building a 1:2 scale STARGATE!!
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updated 5.08
Hi nance!