Woodwork Away!

Howdy Folks!

Wooden houses I made for families. 

You may not have heard from me in a while and that's because I've been away for three months touring The United States and Canada. Below are pictures of woodwork I was able to do while I was over there. Enjoy and click on the to link see more of the trip. 
http://www.makingittomontana2013.blogspot.co.uk/

Building Sheds in Minnesota

My brother and one of the workers constructing a roof 

One of the sheds very nearly finished

Tools for the Job

Building a deck

A Greek sword I made in Montana

 

Wood from Heaven

Hi everyone,

If you have ever seen the movie Evan Almighty, this really was "If you can haul it, you can have it"!

It was some weeks ago now I was a little low on wood and all I really needed was just a 2 by 1 90'' piece. So I went down the road with my older brother to a place I've used wood from before. We got there and asked them for what I needed and we were led to a massive warehouse that had a huge pile of scraps of many kinds of wood. I was amazed and they said we could have the whole lot for FREE! So we piled as much as we could in the small car we had and came back with a bigger van and even in the next morning we came back for more. It was incredible! I'm very thankful and pleased with their service and I don't think I'm going to be low on wood in a hurry.

Hope you enjoy and all the best

ZAC

Older brother Joe doing a great job

Now that's a saw

The warehouse

More of My Artwork

Greetings one and all,

After drawing Clash of the Titans I started other drawings from movies. One thing to remember if you're an artist is to never get rid of your older work because when you look back on your first achievements to your latest you will see the evolution of your art. There are several more I'm yet to do but, I'll leave that till next time.

Enjoy and farewell.

Zac

In this drawing I wanted to make the
center to be the three Elvish swords

Sting,Orcrist and Glamdring have to be
some of my ultimate favorite swords

Out of the characters in the Hobbit drawing
Thorin has the most detail to draw

Drawing Gandalf in his many shades of grey was quite easy
compared to other characters I've drawn with lots of detail and colour

Most of the detail in Cap's uniform
was drawn from memory

How Heroic!!!

My Artwork

The KRAKEN!!!

My latetest drawing. 

Hey guys, 

Besides carpentry, I love art and drawing. I started when my imagination started to come out with all sorts of characters and fantasies. Together, with my older brother, Joe, we have always loved drawing and creating stories and worlds. 
The ones at the bottom are the first pictures I drew from the movie with not much  to copy from. The one to the left is the latest picture I've drawn from the movie with several other oringinal images to help.

Zac

Very Cool! 
This picture I used as the
 center of my drawing

The best pet EVER!! 
This image really helped with 
drawing the Scorpions

Sorry about the spelling mistake, I guess I was
concentrating on the drawing too much

RELEASE THE KRAKEN!!!

Swords and Shields

My steadily growing private collection... To arms!

Hello there, 

 Knights, Gladiators, Vikings and all other Warriors. As you can see I haven't yet finished some shields but they were made the same way as the Captain America shield, which you can see in the previous post, "Captain America Shield".

 The majority of the swords I made myself but two swords (bottom right) were made by two of my brothers as birthday presents (before I started woodwork). With only a few tools, jigsaw, sandpaper and spray paint all swords were made the same way with a few changes of design and decoration. I have been asked what my favorite one is and even though I do prefer shorter swords I couldn't say. I've fought with many different types from multiple periods of history over time and have come to appreciate most. The next question is: what's yours? Comment below and let me know!

A Viking sword I have to say is quite a favorite of mine

Greek scorpion shield

Bellow are clips of swords and shields being used from two my favorite movies.  

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Gifts and Birthday presents

Hello one and all,

Here are some of the gifts and presents I've made for friends and family. These were all extremly fun and easy to make and they look amazing around the house. With only a jigsaw, wood plane, and pryrograph pen all of these projects turned out very sucessful. So have a go, comment, share your ideas and fill your house with your great work.

All the best...

A horse made for my sister Charis's birthday

Zac

The heart in the middle was my little brothers idea for my parents
and the two other acomplishments were thier birthdays

The wooden spanner I made for my brother Ike
who currently is a machanic

A present made for my sister Rhiannon
who is a sucessful Doula

A wooden pipe made for my brother who is currently
writng a fantasy novel in which one of the charaters has a pipe

Side one of a wall plaque I made for some friends 

Side two

A present made for our friends wedding
which they were over joyed with 

Thor's Hammer

Thor from the ''Dark world''

 Hello Asgardians,

 Here is a piece of work I made for my seven year old brother who is is quite a fan. I also made this because as you know I'm always putting my talent to test. This project took only two days but I've kept adding detail here and there since finishing it. To start the head I got four blocks of wood and sawed them equally to 8'' each. Then glued them in a square and finished off the head using ductape. For the handle I sawed a piece of wood to around 7'' and decorating it with tape finished off the hammer perfectly. It dosen't help you fly or shoot lightning but it sure is powerful.

Hope you enjoy and have a go.


Always avenging...    

Zac.

My little brother wearing the helmet
and breastplate also made by me

My mighty hammer 

I also made a pocket size one for portable play

Thor's hammer from the Avengers

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