The good old days!

The Inmist crew filmed our recent workshop and are assembling a short video to promote future workshops. As part of that project they asked me to provide some old photographs of our early days in business. I searched through our archives and came across some great photos. I was reminded of our humble beginnings and the long journey to where we are today. My search through old photos also brought back some wonderful memories of good times. 

For more than a decade I travelled across Canada and the USA painting more than one hundred and twenty historical murals. Each summer, when school was out we logged tens of thousands of miles on working holidays, criss crossing the countryside to get to the far flung towns and cities where we would do our work. The kids (and Janis too on occasion) would climb the tall scaffolds with me and paint beside me.  They were indeed the good old days.

Sinking our teeth into a model

It is not very often our projects require study models but once in a while they are necessary. It's a fun job! A current project requires several and today I began the job of creating the beginning pieces. On larger projects we weld up structural frames and then sculpt over this. For much smaller models the process is a little different. The shape is quickly blocked out using rough cut foam. It is glued up and then we add a skin of sculpting epoxy with all of the details. Here's the first building blocks for the sunken ship model.

ship hull rough.png

Hot rod bike

The piece for the contest will have many elements and tell a fun and relevant story of course. It will be humorous as well. Every funny story needs a punchline and this one will be told visually. The punchline won't make much sense until the rest of the story is told. Over the next weeks (maybe months) I'll be telling that story as I put together the pieces one by one. No point in tipping my hand to the other entries quite yet. Here's the punchline...