Perfectly accurate
It’s the details that make these models of Stonehenge really pop. And the rusted patina brings them out. All I do is dip the cold cast iron models into vinegar and salt and after a few days lightly, rub down the model with my fingers, The grease from my skin makes the raised parts of the model sing, while the recessed depths stay rusty.
Continue reading “Close up of Trilithon Two, Stonehenge replica model”
Some more renders in light rust at 76th scale. 8.3cm or 3.3 inches high (T2) x 59cm or 23.2 inches in diameter. The base will not be as thick as this.
A video. Pan across a rusty patina model render at 35th scale, then a zoom into Trilithon Two.
I’ve rendered the polished, inner face of Stone 53. (Remember that line of 17th-century graffiti is about eye-level.)
It’s in different light angles and materials, hopefully, to find the carvings more easily. Download, have fun.
There is a 100-year-old, neverending question of was it: Neolithic man or glaciers who moved the bluestones from West Wales to Wiltshire. Continue reading “Bluestones. Glacier or man?”
To compare the sizes of the Stonehenge model full set. These are renders from the models, comp’d in Photoshop.
Of the numbered stones, the missing stones overlayed onto an aerial photograph. I have a printed copy of this handy at all times. Perhaps you’d want to bookmark this permalink for the file http://stonehen.ge/bgmap.
There are at least two types of sarsen at Stonehenge. These guys, a professor and a doctor, are going to fingerprint the debitage and the still ‘wild’ sarsens around and about south England to connect the dots.
One of the completed models I am to make is of the present view, naturally. But also two versions when it was in ‘disrepair.’