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What is it? I'm finding it impossible to judge the scale. Small cornice or massive serac?!
Robert Durran - 29/May/20
Here's my take - to me it looks like a block of dark stone (basalt maybe?) broken/sculpted into shape. The snow/ice features could be sugar icing or plaster. Scale is hard to tell but the face could be about 20cm tall? It needs Thunderbird 2 flying past, Jamie.
Lankyman - 29/May/20
Whilst we've been kept off the mountains perhaps a major landslide on the NE face of Aonach Beag has opened up a new face?
Al Todd - 29/May/20
Lankyman, you're spot on, though the rock was as I found it. Sculpted snow and ice formations are car body filler. Al, that would be quite the transformation, though I'm very happy with Aonach Beag as it is! One of my favourite mountains.
Jamie Hageman - 29/May/20
Amazing! If I'd had to put money on it, I'd have gone for something like Cayesh in the Cordillera Blanca. Never occurred to me it wasn't real.
Robert Durran - 29/May/20
Thanks Robert! It was great fun to build. I'm going to do some more and maybe create a mini Cordillera Blanca in the garden.
Jamie Hageman - 29/May/20
Worth a five for the scale model work. It has a fantastical quality. Have you considered offering your services to the movie world?
John Stainforth - 29/May/20
Thanks John. I would love to work on models on films. I was once shown around a model workshop/studio in London where they were working on Bond gadgets - brilliant! I was also inspired by Peter Jackson's Bad Taste where he made all the props himself. I used to make guns with working mechanisms and even a Freddie glove when I was little - all crafted from metal (my Dad had a big workshop).
Jamie Hageman - 29/May/20
Very impressive Jamie. Wonder how it would look with two tiny spots of colour high on that right hand ridge?
Myfyr Tomos - 29/May/20
Yep, might get the Fimo out
Jamie Hageman - 30/May/20