The QBP
art wall, log of production phase.
Everything but the bike covered and loaded into the truck.
Big tree covered.
Road sections assembled and patinaed
The biker in progress. . .
Copper channel frame
coppertop
The truck is filling up.
Tree, bicycle, patina road, a couple "form to fit the wall" changes, finish loading, and move to the site.
Where are we?
Red is copper clad
Blue is stuff getting ready to be clad.
The final tree frame against the wall, two of the last three road sections getting their surfaces cut to size.
The finished buildings and trees being packed into the truck for the trip to QBP.
Where are we?
Red is copper clad
Blue is stuff getting ready to be clad.
The mounting holes are drilled, the anchors are epoxied in place, and
the big jig has been taken down.
We are texturing the road surface panels and covering the frames for
"The City"
The jig came down in one long day just before the weather turned nasty.
A lot of time has been devoted to digging ourselves out.
jig parts buried in snow.
We have, however been working inside.
The largest buildings are almost finished.
detail of what we did for Andy's fan section.
We have been texturing the road surface panels and putting the patterns into the sheets for the last two buildings.
The earliest stuff is Here
The middle stuff is Here
In early February, we arrived and started hanging the big
jig.
One day of hanging stuff, and the next day everything ground to a halt
when one of our trio who had been walking around tightening bolts, sat
down in his truck to warm his hands, had a heart attack and died.
Richard Maslowski, one of the driving forces in our effort,
dead
at 56. His indomitable spirit shall be greatly missed.
We finished hanging the jig before Frostbike, but with funeral, wake
and shock recovery, little else got done.
Now, we are past the hurry deadline, and on 40 hour weeks
instead
of 80 and more, but steadily pecking away at the project.
Here are some shots of stuff on the 21st of Feb.
The jig is up and Mason Cutters has been drilling holes for several
days.
as yet unclad frames for "the city" buildings
In order to make clean straight lines for the buildings I built a
rolling table for the pullmax.
By clamping the sheets to the table and running them through forming
dies, we are able to form long straight patterns.
Here is a picture of the smallest pine tree, and the smallest set of
buildings for the West wall.
The second building on that wall is on the horses in the foreground
.
The tall building from the west wall is still unclad. It is
one of the frames in the top picture.
All the frames are done, all the pines are covered, and three out of
the four deciduous trees are covered.
four building sections and four road sections, one tree, and the
bicyclist remain.
Where are we?
Red is copper clad
Blue is stuff getting ready to be clad.
The mounting holes are being drilled, several mounts are being "tuned"
to fit the actual wall better and the panels are rapidly being covered.
Soon, . . . soon . . .