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Poppyhead pews in St Mary and All Saints church, Checkley. This is in the choir stalls and date from the C16th. There are some Victorian ones in the nave as well.
Here's one of the wooden gears with the center hole cut. I cut a square hole so the axle driving the gear couldn't slip. This was not at all necessary; the forces involved weren't that big. Still, I like doing things right.
North Elmham has a ruined medieval chapel, but almost next door, the "newer" church of St Mary the Virgin, dates from the C14th. There are an impressive collection of carved C15th pew end and poppyheads, with a wide variety of animals, birds, mythical beasts, and heads.
Variations on the theme of dragons are always popular as they are associated with evil, as well as St George.
The tomb of Sir Reginald Cobham (d. 1446) and his 2nd wife Anne (d. 1454). He fought at Agincourt but never had an important "office" in parliament. As well as founding the college at Lingfield, he had the church rebuilt in 1431. The Cobham tombs were moved from the Lady Chapel where they originally sat, but Sir Reginald, directed that his tomb be placed before the High Altar, which is where it still sits.
Whilst it's an impressive tomb with fine detail, it also has some grotesque images, especially the severed Moor's head, which Reginald is resting his head on. His feet rest on a wolf or mythical beast.
The Collegiate church of St Peter and St Paul, Lingfield is also known as the “Little Cathedral” or the “Westminster Abbey of Surrey". A very small portion of a Saxon church remains.
The back of the rubber band chamber. The 3/4-inch dowels will go through the large holes, and the smaller dowels peg through the larger dowels on either side. On the inside, the smaller dowels will have rubber bands loop around them. On the outside the smaller dowels will ratchet against the pegs in the panel, allowing the rubber bands to be wound up. At least, that was the idea.
Prehistoric animals move through the audience, large birds fly overhead, and animal voices sound from every direction.
The feet, glued together. All that's left is to paint them black and draw on gold claws.
As you may be able to tell, the tops and bottoms of the feet were made from more Saltine boxes...except for one, which was a Kraft mac & cheese box, which I emptied out into a plastic bag because I needed the cardboard.
The mac & cheese box didn't stick to the glue well at all.
The plastic bag of mac & cheese went backpacking with us the next week.
Prehistoric animals move through the audience, large birds fly overhead, and animal voices sound from every direction.
Fantastic things! Now at last there's a reason for people to visit Falkirk, (although the Falkirk Wheel, just along the canal, is a triumph of 20th century engineering and also worth a visit).
GWL - The Devonshire Arms - Guessed by Capo2 - Any idea what the creature on the right is? The nearest I could get, by wading through endless heraldic beast sites, is Sea Lion!
Coney Island's B&B Carousell was originally built in 1906 though most of these horses were built by famous carousel maker Charles Carmel in the 1920s. Recently and impeccably restored, this historic carousel has made its return to the Coney Island boardwalk.
Every year, I build something for Bunny Burn. The design requirements are that it fit within the theme, be flammable, and involve bunnies in some way.
Recently, I've been thinking a lot about ornithopters. However, I have no knowledge of aerodynamics, so I figured I'd build something that could flap its wings, but not fly. And then set it on fire. Dragons have wings, so that's what I chose.
I designed a flapping wing structure in my head, and eventually cut out some cardboard and pinned it together to see how it'd work. This is a mock-up of the right wing.
Another printout was glued on to 1/2-inch birch plywood and cut out with a hand-held scroll saw. I specifically bought a smooth-cut blade for it, but even so a lot of hand-filing was needed to smooth everything.
The biggest difficulty was in keeping a charge in the rechargeable saw's batteries.
The center holes for the gear axles have not yet been cut.
Almost invisible in the dark, this rather nice old boat became bright and clear with a long enough exposure.
This carving is possibly Norman.
Built between 1136-1156 on the site of an earlier church, this impressive church has Norman arches and stone carvings. As it sits opposite Melbourne Hall, it was never intended as a parish church as the village were buried elsewhere. They were moved here after the Reformation.
The nave dates from the 1630s. These pillars stand at 15ft high and are 4ft in diameter. New stone was inserted into them during restoration in 1860.