I love your creations. So artistic. I am going to try to recreate them for our VBS at Oak Grove Baptist Church in Colonial Beach, VA. I love the propeller. If you do not mind, can I ask a few questions? Did you just draw the propeller free hand? How about the first (airplane) picture under the post "Some of the coral I made for a VBS". Do you have a better picture of the front of that airplane? I am going to make the styrofoam airplane to put on the stage but I would like to make a light one to hang also. Think this one may work. I am actually heading to Home Depot to buy some styrofoam right now. :) Thanks for all your ideas! You are an inspiration.
Can you please e-mail me at jamielynnmartin@gmail.com. I use my Outlook for my Gmail account and can't remember my password to login to blogger. :( I'm sorry!!
I did draw the propeller out free hand onto a roll of brown paper but I only did one side of it. I used a paint can to make the circle, then I measured out roughly 2 feet from it's center. Then I drew a sort of oval from the paint can circle to the 2 foot mark. I cut out the top of the circle, and the oval line I just drew. I left the other part of the paper uncut. I folded what I cut lengthwise and traced it. So when I unfolded it the bottom had the exact same shape as the top. I cut out the rest of it and traced it onto my styrofoam. Then I kept the center of the circle still and I spun the rest of the pattern around until it made the other wing/side.
As far as the red plane with the yellow prop, I pretty much copied it from http://lifewayvbs.wordpress.com/2012/01/30/expo-foam-plane/
I did my nose a little different. I made it the same way I did the nose for the propeller. .http://constructionofthecreative.blogspot.com/2012/05/update-to-styrofoam-airplane-propeller.htm on the drill press, Except I used the half inch stuff for the propeller, and the 2 inch stuff for the nose. I screwed the propeller into the yellow koozie and then glued the nose on. So the screw head is sandwiched between the red nose, and the front of the propeller.
Jeff,
ReplyDeleteI love your creations. So artistic. I am going to try to recreate them for our VBS at Oak Grove Baptist Church in Colonial Beach, VA. I love the propeller. If you do not mind, can I ask a few questions? Did you just draw the propeller free hand? How about the first (airplane) picture under the post "Some of the coral I made for a VBS". Do you have a better picture of the front of that airplane? I am going to make the styrofoam airplane to put on the stage but I would like to make a light one to hang also. Think this one may work. I am actually heading to Home Depot to buy some styrofoam right now. :) Thanks for all your ideas! You are an inspiration.
Can you please e-mail me at jamielynnmartin@gmail.com. I use my Outlook for my Gmail account and can't remember my password to login to blogger. :( I'm sorry!!
I did draw the propeller out free hand onto a roll of brown paper but I only did one side of it. I used a paint can to make the circle, then I measured out roughly 2 feet from it's center. Then I drew a sort of oval from the paint can circle to the 2 foot mark. I cut out the top of the circle, and the oval line I just drew. I left the other part of the paper uncut. I folded what I cut lengthwise and traced it. So when I unfolded it the bottom had the exact same shape as the top.
DeleteI cut out the rest of it and traced it onto my styrofoam. Then I kept the center of the circle still and I spun the rest of the pattern around until it made the other wing/side.
As far as the red plane with the yellow prop, I pretty much copied it from http://lifewayvbs.wordpress.com/2012/01/30/expo-foam-plane/
I did my nose a little different. I made it the same way I did the nose for the propeller. .http://constructionofthecreative.blogspot.com/2012/05/update-to-styrofoam-airplane-propeller.htm on the drill press, Except I used the half inch stuff for the propeller, and the 2 inch stuff for the nose. I screwed the propeller into the yellow koozie and then glued the nose on. So the screw head is sandwiched between the red nose, and the front of the propeller.