Cardboard houses

A few pictures of the two "buildings" made for the schools version of the ginormous turnip, all the buildings were made using some fantastic 3ply card we have our injection moulding plastic delivered in at work. The  card is fantastic, as strong as hardboard but much easier to cut. 

the roof is much thinner and was givn a few coats of paint to help it look suitably wobbly and rough.

Between the houses is Seth in his dog costume. I made the head and my wife the body suit/gloves and feet.

The turnip house, made in two pieces as everything had to fit in the back of our car.

Beach buggy tot rod rebuild

Its been a while since I have posted but that's not to say I haven't been busy, In the last few weeks I have rebuilt the buggy and built two houses for number one son's school assembly. The houses and a fence were for a production of the ginormous turnip, for which they needed a tumbledown cottage and a turnip house along with a length of fence. The same weekend the school held a summer fayre, for which I had foolishly offered the buggy as an attraction. It was a long way from being ready to use, so in the last two weeks I have welded the chassis, painted all the steel, added chrome bumper cages front and back, made and upholstered the interior panels and seats, painted the wheels and built a pretend engine(which annoyingly didn't fit at the 11th hour!)

We made it to the show and it was a real hit, not sure who much we made yet but I had over £50 in my bucket including the float so a reasonable 2h work. :-)

above, on the morning of the show, fitting the wheels.

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My space on the field with my cottage as a backdrop

OFF ROAD!!! :-)

One of the 80's "Love Is Cards"?

It really could have been built to fit in the back of the car, there is an inch to spare in every direction.