Still Shots

Making The Wagon's Mice Cages

Horses assemble!

Mice Wagon

I have begun to plan the wagon since I will have the horse soon. I have laid it out in illustrator to get the scale, and set up a file to laser cut the wheels in wood. The entire wagon may be laser cut, it also helps that I have a key to the room 24/7 ha! So that will be progressing very soon, hopefully it should be ready for finishing by Monday... goodbye weekend!

Here I have all of the parts color coded. The blue and green are 2 types of springs, I think the green one will be more structurally sound. The overall scale is 12" x 8" about.

These are the wheels in cross sections, once cut I'll laminate them together, the star is representing the spokes, but instead of cutting that out, I saw skinny square mahogany dowels that would look great, strong too.

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Making a Horse

Watch me make a horse from start to finish! See how I do it, how I mess up, and the work that goes behind one of these puppets. sorry the quality is crap.. i don't know why uploading it makes the resolution so bad..

From here I realized that it isn't strong enough to stand on its own without moving. It ended up being structurally weak even though I was able to get the movement of the joints right. So to salvage the hours I spent working on this, I reinforced it with tubes and pipe cleaners to make a brace for the legs. It ended up working perfectly and I am able to move onto the head...

There was a lot of tightening involved with the shoulders and the joints. It is partly due to the materials, paper isn't the best but I was more focused on the price of the materials. 

(I have spent a ton on the skeletons of the people, resin and leather isn't cheap, and there are masses of materials still to buy. It is a subdominant feature in the scene, but still, I would love it to be as good as possible.) 

So tons of pipe cleaners and hot glue are required.

[More videos to come]

Horse

There are some great videos to be posted on how the horse is made, until then, here is a photo of what has been done up to now.