Completed: Gern's new dio - and how they can so easily get out of control!

[Gern]

Funnily enough Tony, I was thinking about this one the other day. I'll have some skeletons left over and I already have lots of foam - I only need to find figures for Jason and his crew. Hmmmmm.


Just noticed on your pic. - all the skeletons are left handed! Wonder why?

 

[Stevekir]

I love the postures of the skeletons. Very dynamic and not at all stiff and rigid.


For many years I have wanted a full sized (or no smaller than half sized) human skeleton around the house but, you guessed it, her indoors has an it-or-me attitude, and she cooks much better than a skeleton would. I would love to have some friends home to an evening meal and have boney joining us. But I don't think I have any friends who could handle that. An alternative would be a snake's skeleton, all those ribs, but she would be out the door in seconds. WARNING Snake skeleton below:


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[Gern]

OK. So maybe a skeleton can't cook - but it can't answer back either so you'd be guaranteed to win all the arguments!

 

[Gern]

Funnily enough Tony, I was thinking about this one the other day. I'll have some skeletons left over and I already have lots of foam - I only need to find figures for Jason and his crew. Hmmmmm.
Just noticed on your pic. - all the skeletons are left handed! Wonder why?

.... and so is Jason!

 

[Gern]

OK. Got the skeleton figures done.


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Some of the poses may look a little weird. The positions of the legs are fixed with the skeletons standing and fighting. I need them lying down so I've had to pose them with their legs resting on various objects - like the one that's fallen across the table. They look OK once in position. (I also resisted the temptation to chop off limbs here and there - just the one guy who lost his head).


Some accessories to dot about along with the main doors.


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Finally got the dark grey finished. I'll be adding lighter greys and drybrushing.


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[Snowman]

Outrageous!!:eek:


That is one cooool dio!!

 

[Polux]

You are nailing it. Dave!!


Brilliant

 

[dave]

I love the postures of the skeletons. Very dynamic and not at all stiff and rigid.
For many years I have wanted a full sized (or no smaller than half sized) human skeleton around the house but, you guessed it, her indoors has an it-or-me attitude, and she cooks much better than a skeleton would. I would love to have some friends home to an evening meal and have boney joining us. But I don't think I have any friends who could handle that.


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During my student days I always wanted a human skeleton to stand in the corner and use as a hat and scarf stand. But I think that was down to too many episodes of Rising Damp.

 

[CharleyGnarlyP290]

Wow, Chamber of Mazarbul... I like it!


I am re-reading the LOTR right now as a matter of fact. Those figures look great, and the skeletons are really going to work nice.


And its funny; when the first photo of the skeleton box was posted, the first thing that popped to mind was Jason and the Argonauts. A great flick to be sure.

 

[dougie]

Great work, this is going to be ace

 

[monica]

looking great,very nice work with the bits and bob,s ,and skeleton,


are they meant to be the dead dwarfs or ores,

 

[Gern]

Thanks for the nice comments folks.


Dave: Here you go: http://www.bing.com/search?q=Skeleton+for+Sale&FORM=R5FD6


Brett: I'm already looking for figures to represent Jason & his crew. If I find any, that will go on my 'to do' list!


Moni: A skeleton is a skeleton is a skeleton ...... from the size I'd have to say they're more likely to be orcs, but as they're the only ones I've got, they'll have to do for both.

 

[Bigfoot57]

Now there's an idea might just have to try that sometime in the future

 

[Gern]

Now there's an idea might just have to try that sometime in the future

Which one? The dio or a full-size skeleton? :D

 

[Bigfoot57]

Be the dio haven't got room for a full sized skeleton plus the fact it would freak me out at nights imagine waking up and seeing one of those life size

 

[Gern]

Be the dio haven't got room for a full sized skeleton plus the fact it would freak me out at nights imagine waking up and seeing one of those life size

Got to agree there Colin. I live on my own so if I got one I'd probably end up talking to it, making meals for it or even calling it 'Wilson' .....

 

[spanner570]

Putting your excellent dio. to one side for a minute, what on earth were you doing up and about at 3:12 AM?

 

[Gern]

Working on the bit of my dio I nearly forgot to do (pics soon) - what else?


PS My body clock seems to have a natural 27 hour cycle, so without having set times imposed on me by external events, such as work, I find myself getting up and going to bed at some really strange times. C'est la vie!

 

[Gern]

So now comes the clever bit.


Have a look at these two images from the film;


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Notice there is a line of relief carving in sort of diamond shapes that runs all round the chamber.


The guy who did the original build that mine is based on ( http://www.one-ring.co.uk/kb.php?a=42) worked out a nice way to represent these carvings. I take absolutely no credit for this - it was all his idea.


He used some pinking shears to cut lines of diamond shapes from thin card which he then stuck to the walls and columns around his chamber. I couldn't do that as the only set of pinking shears I was able to get hold of are rather old and battered.


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That gap between the blades is best part of 1mm wide - which is wider than the thickness of the card I'm using. And besides which, as I've already mentioned I can't cut straight, so I couldn't get the diagonal cuts to line up to produce diamonds. Most of the time I ended up with zig-zag shapes.


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Of course, if I wanted zig-zags, I'd end up with diamonds!


However, I marked out and cut two strips of triangles. I can now match these together to form the diamond shapes I need once I've straightened out the pieces.


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The gap will be closed up and hidden with either filler or paint when I get them fixed in place.


I've done these so far - which is about half what I need


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Before anyone asks. No, I won't be doing the Runic inscriptions which cover the rest of the walls. It's only going to be a history about Moria and Dwarfs (Dwarves?). If anyone wants the details - read the books!!!

 

[Gern]

I forgot to mention. I found and ordered some figures for Jason & The Argonauts so it looks like that will be my next dio. I'll do a brief in-box review when I get them.


I also looked at a video clip from the film and Jason and the skeletons are all right-handed. I guess someone got a transparency from the original film for Tony's picture and filmed it from the wrong side.