Headpiece of the Staff of Ra

"Make the staff six kadams high..."

Here's something from last year that I forgot to post about until after it got put away with the Christmas decorations. It's a pretty simple resin kit that I got off eBay. Being a prop replica, it's 1:1 scale, and it consists of three parts: the headpiece itself and two gems. The work involved gold leafing it (after applying a coat of gold paint just in case), then some light weathering before gluing in the gems. My wife Ilene is a big fan of the movie, so I gave it to her for Christmas, expecting that she would use it as a tree ornament.

"...and take back one kadam to honor the Hebrew God whose ark this is."

 

Goodbye, Rory

This is nothing to do with modeling, but modeling is making, and making is how makers express themselves. When I got up this morning, I had no idea I would be making a coffin for a cat. Rory spent the night outside - the weather was very mild, so we thought nothing of it - but he died unexpectedly during the night. He was eight years old and in the prime of life.

So I made him a coffin, and we buried him in the backyard. There was no way I could just put him in a hole in the ground, so I had to make him a coffin. It was my way of saying goodbye.