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Angry birds are back on Hobikitaras, for any one who missed them last time ...
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Scherfting away: Starling and Wren
Quite recently while I was working on my Ariane 5 and the parts I did weren't that satisfying in their result, I suddenly felt the need to make a bird. I love modeling birds and Johan Scherft's birds are amongst the bestest. Together with the Topp mobile birds.
So I ordered the Starling at Zeist Bouwplaten (Which is of course our friend Diderick A. Den Bakker) and he sent it to me. It is a big piece of paper, A3 and to make the posting a little cheaper he cut the sheet conveniently into three parts. I scanned the bird and printed one out at 120 gram paper. This way I can make a couple of birds together. As usual with Johan Scherft, the starling is a very good model. It was straight forward to build and I just redid the feet because I wanted the bird to sit on a branch. I put floral wire (the stuff used to keep flowers straight, like a Gerbera) into the toes and the leg shaft and now I can bend them. There still was room for a rod inserted in the branch going into the leg part so the bird sits sturdy and snug on its branch. Then, immediately afterwards, I did Scherft's wren model. I wanted to do it a little different here, too because I wanted the bird to sing. So I scratch built a new beak for the bird, using some picture of singing wrens as a template. I coloured the beak with water colour pencil and a little acrylic paint. it all went together smoothly. Its legs hide a small brass tube so the wren can sit on a branch while there is a little rod coming out of the branch going into the leg tube. Last edited by Paper Kosmonaut; 06-20-2015 at 10:15 AM. Reason: I added a letter to complete a word. |
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Very nice.
I like your mods re the feet. Very clever. I always am trying to think of how to perch the birds when I make them, but never thought of this approach. Do not actually think I am brave enough to try it!
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This is a spruce up of the Bird Mobile Merlin. I say spruce up because the original kit I built I had bought 32 years ago when my wife and I were on our honeymoon. Anyhoo, I scanned the original kit before I built it a couple of years ago (when I first bought it, I had know idea about how to go about building it, or even what kind of glue to use). What I did was just auto enhance the scan in corel, then I boosted the gamma a little and got much more vibrant colors. I was kind of disappointed with the first build because the colors were so faded (the original had really yellowed) and the contrasts were very bad. Also I was disappointed with the feet, because the were just doubled up card stock that was supposed to be bent to shape. This is what I came up with....
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That came out nicely. Boosting the colours was very effective.
I have one I bought recently and am working on. It also has very faded colours. May try your trick on a second!
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Very good.
I built that a few years ago. Those Bird Mobile models are nice.
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Somebody was looking for a Kookaburra a while back now ...
Check out Johan's latest offering ... papercraft Johan Scherft It ain't free, but it looks well worth buying.
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Two Common Hawfinch
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Very nice Matt. The Siskin looks good too. Will you be making the templates available anywhere?
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Can't believe I've missed out on this thread for almost three years. I've just finished reading through all 84 pages. You guys just cost me a bunch of money as I had to go by all Johan's recent birds.
@matt Love the work you're doing! Beautiful birds you've picked to model. Thanks to everyone who has contributed to this fantastic thread. Steve
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