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Title: Big Build Friday, Atat plus star wars
Post by: Graham Lee on June 23, 2016, 02:01:03 PM
We have another big build Friday coming up tomorrow, so big that I'm just about to start now and will be building today,
Friday and Saturday. So it's definitely a big build, hope fully we come out the other side smiling still  :)
Title: Re: Big Build Friday, take two
Post by: Graham Lee on June 23, 2016, 05:36:07 PM
I've only been twisting for 3 hours and I'm a little knackered,
might be the long day yesterday running the basic care & share day.
Title: Re: Big Build Friday, take two
Post by: Graham Lee on June 23, 2016, 05:36:50 PM
A few more, now back to work. No rest for the wicked ;)
Title: Re: Big Build Friday, take two
Post by: Graham Lee on June 24, 2016, 07:40:04 AM
A few more pictures from yesterday.
Title: Re: Big Build Friday, take two
Post by: Graham Lee on June 24, 2016, 07:40:43 AM
These are the legs.
Title: Re: Big Build Friday, take two
Post by: Graham Lee on June 24, 2016, 11:03:18 PM
Done 13 hours of twisting today with David, we had a couple of meal and coffee breaks, and many laughs along the way.
Will post a few more pictures in the morning.

Anyone have an idea to what we are making?
Title: Re: Big Build Friday, take two
Post by: Graham Lee on June 25, 2016, 07:40:09 AM
All coming along, these were from Thursday.
Title: Re: Big Build Friday, take two
Post by: Graham Lee on June 25, 2016, 07:47:18 AM
Going onto Friday morning, normally I twist in the hall and David in the front room.
What I was building was so big we had to change around.

I made the knee look from 260's but changed this later to 160 as it looked out of place.
Title: Re: Big Build Friday, take two
Post by: zozoo on June 25, 2016, 09:40:17 AM
I've got no idea what this will be, looking forward to the end result!
Title: Re: Big Build Friday, take two
Post by: Graham Lee on June 25, 2016, 01:01:45 PM
Quote from: "zozoo"I've got no idea what this will be, looking forward to the end result!
A few more pictures, I will post some more later but still building the next design.

David is a pretty fast weaver, the black design so far took less than an hour.
Title: Re: Big Build Friday, take two
Post by: magirob on June 25, 2016, 02:39:12 PM
I have been watching these come on and I have just realised what it is going to be :D Amazing :D
Title: Re: Big Build Friday, take two
Post by: nippy99 on June 25, 2016, 04:00:50 PM
If it is what I think it is I can't wait to see it!
Title: Re: Big Build Friday, take two
Post by: Graham Lee on June 25, 2016, 10:36:00 PM
Well we finally got finished, another 12 hour day..............I think the word is a little tired.
A few more pictures.
Title: Re: Big Build Friday, take two
Post by: Graham Lee on June 26, 2016, 09:13:44 AM
AND....................................... RELAX,
the van arrived 9am this morning to pick up the balloons and they are on there way to the party.

That was a busy three days, so at a rough guess I reckon this was 46 hours of work
including set up at the venue and travel.

If something is not quite right you do not get time to start again, you have to blend it in and work with it.
Title: Re: Big Build Friday, take two
Post by: Graham Lee on June 26, 2016, 09:14:52 AM
All the legs coming together and the main body section on it's way.
Title: Re: Big Build Friday, take two
Post by: Graham Lee on June 26, 2016, 09:15:44 AM
David happy in his work. It looks like a ship at the moment to me.
Title: Re: Big Build Friday, take two
Post by: Graham Lee on June 27, 2016, 09:31:31 AM
The build coming along, I know Rob guessed it correctly.
Title: Re: Big Build Friday, take two
Post by: Graham Lee on June 27, 2016, 09:32:09 AM
All coming together. We did add an extra row to the top to make the shape more correct to the pictures we were using.
Title: Re: Big Build Friday, take two
Post by: Graham Lee on June 28, 2016, 07:29:35 AM
And here it is, just positioned together to check for proportions etc.
Adding details to the legs and the head.
Title: Re: Big Build Friday, take two
Post by: Graham Lee on June 28, 2016, 07:32:59 AM
We shaped the top of the atat better and then later on added to the feet,
they looked a little small here.
Title: Re: Big Build Friday, take two
Post by: zozoo on June 28, 2016, 08:42:42 AM
Thanks Graham I've been waiting very patiently for you to post more!! How on earth did you get it out???
Title: Re: Big Build Friday, take two
Post by: Graham Lee on June 28, 2016, 11:04:27 AM
Quote from: "zozoo"Thanks Graham I've been waiting very patiently for you to post more!! How on earth did you get it out???
It came apart and was in six sections,
the main body needed a gentle piece of persuading but we just about managed to get it out the front door.
Title: Re: Big Build Friday, Atat plus star wars
Post by: nippy99 on June 28, 2016, 08:10:03 PM
That's brilliant well done.
Title: Re: Big Build Friday, Atat plus star wars
Post by: Graham Lee on June 29, 2016, 08:03:15 AM
These are the pictures we made the atat from.
We made the feet a little larger by adding an extra 350 and 260.
Title: Re: Big Build Friday, Atat plus star wars
Post by: Graham Lee on June 29, 2016, 08:04:32 AM
I made Chewbacca a couple of weeks back so have not taken as many pictures while making this one.

The other Chewbacca pictures are here, star-wars-big-build-t10597.html (http://balloonchat.co.uk/star-wars-big-build-t10597.html)
Title: Re: Big Build Friday, Atat plus star wars
Post by: Graham Lee on July 01, 2016, 10:25:27 PM
The last picture is one of the arms coming together.
Title: Re: Big Build Friday, Atat plus star wars
Post by: Graham Lee on July 01, 2016, 10:26:12 PM
The start of the inner head section.
Title: Re: Big Build Friday, Atat plus star wars
Post by: Graham Lee on July 02, 2016, 08:28:54 AM
The head/hair looks a little Barbie doll at the moment, the arms coming together.
Title: Re: Big Build Friday, Atat plus star wars
Post by: Graham Lee on July 02, 2016, 03:48:17 PM
Coming together.
Title: Re: Big Build Friday, Atat plus star wars
Post by: Graham Lee on July 03, 2016, 08:51:19 AM
All coming together.
Title: Re: Big Build Friday, Atat plus star wars
Post by: Graham Lee on July 03, 2016, 08:52:28 AM
The front room was a little packed out with the balloon designs.
Title: Re: Big Build Friday, Atat plus star wars
Post by: Graham Lee on July 03, 2016, 08:53:46 AM
All packed and ready for the trip to the party, we had to order a van to fit all the designs in.
Title: Re: Big Build Friday, Atat plus star wars
Post by: Graham Lee on July 04, 2016, 08:21:38 AM
Some pictures from the party.
Title: Re: Big Build Friday, Atat plus star wars
Post by: Graham Lee on July 04, 2016, 08:22:33 AM
From the party.
Title: Re: Big Build Friday, Atat plus star wars
Post by: Graham Lee on July 04, 2016, 08:25:19 AM
A few more.
Title: Re: Big Build Friday, Atat plus star wars
Post by: Graham Lee on July 06, 2016, 11:03:28 PM
Last few coming up from the party.
Title: Re: Big Build Friday, Atat plus star wars
Post by: Graham Lee on July 06, 2016, 11:04:56 PM
A nice picture of Chewbacca and a storm trooper.
Title: Re: Big Build Friday, Atat plus star wars
Post by: Graham Lee on July 06, 2016, 11:05:23 PM
And I believe the last picture.
Title: Re: Big Build Friday, Atat plus star wars
Post by: Areyouhappydad on July 07, 2020, 07:11:59 PM
Very impressive.

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