Leadership Lesson #427: If a large project does not progress quickly it will become demoralizing.
This was the 5th weekend working in the garage. After some technical setbacks in the last few weeks, I finally made real progress on the carousel. I rebuilt the center column to be much lighter, and re-skinned it with 1/8′ luan. The fit and finish looks professional now. I also rebuilt the round sections to break down for storage and added some guides and stops to make the pieces interlocking. This will will make assembly much faster! I also redid the support frame to make it much stronger.
Zac and I roughed out a form for the carousel creatures in PVC. The big tube in the center is so that the creatures can be slipped onto the poles on carousel, but easily taken off for storage. Which end is which? I don’t know yet.
I bought a coyote skull to use as the basis of the head for some of the creatures. I am going to make a mold of it and make 7-10 copies. So I started filling the voids with clay, and for a better look I completed the orbital (eyes). The actual eyes aren’t closed circles like a human skull. You can see the actual skull on the left side of the pic, and the fake eye socket on the right. The fake eye socket looks more skull like to me.
I have been scribbling some ideas for carousel creatures during the week so far.
This I can’t wait to see. The concept drawings are great!