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Wooly mammoth skull

admin — Wed, 18 May 2016 19:55:52 +0000

This was my winter holiday project that I made for Tampere Vapriikki museum exhibition Ice Age Giants. The plan was to make natural size wooly mammoth skull with tusks. Some of the skeletons that have been deep in acidic bogs have this kind of nice deep brown color.

Inner structure is made of steel tubing. It was tricky to invent very light, but strong structure that could hold force caused by long tusks.
All bones are made of insulation foam, polyurethane foam and plastic padding. Surfaces have 2 layers of epoxy resin colored with pigment powders. I used 1,5l resin and 6 pieces of insulation foam sheets. Rough shapes were cut with Japanese saw. Other shaping was done with different sanders and hot wire cutter.
This project produced huge amounts of static plastic dust, that could be found everywhere next weeks.

Skulls weight is altogether 15kg.

http://vapriikki.fi/nayttelyt/jaakauden-jattilaiset/

Glow worm diorama

admin — Sun, 29 Mar 2015 10:29:44 +0000

This is small Glow worm diorama made for Vapriikki natural history museum. Materials are Luna- and sukerukun clay and PP100 plastic padding.
These Glow worm models have gloving tritium ampull inside.

Old growth forest room to natural history museum in Tampere

admin — Sun, 29 Mar 2015 10:17:32 +0000

My winter project was nearly 50 m2 size painting to new natural history museum in Tampere. Painting has 2 parts: Sky is painted with paints that glow in UV-light. Trees and ground are painted on plywood. If you want to get proper idea, you should visit this museum!

Paint mixing tests.

Trees show glow from sunset. Painting work had to be done with very little light.