With the super large features we are currently building for Motiongate in Dubai we start with the heavy duty frame. Then we start mounting the larger elements which we did yesterday. Now Peter is quickly blocking in the middle elements using quarter inch pencil rod to create the outlines. These are hard to see in the photograph but we can easily visualize the finished results by looking at them. Jack follows by welding in the structural steel inside these to make everything sturdy. Then the crew will fire up more welders to fill in the pencil rod frame to make a tight grid. Peter will follow behind and add in any last minute bits to make it all work together. Then we'll disassemble and send it off for galvanizing.
Solid foundation
We've been working with our engineer for weeks to design a solid frame on which we will build the Viking features. These drawings were reviewed by two other engineering teams before the approvals came back for us to start. Then we began the work on the super strong framework. All of that will stay hidden in the end. Today at last, we started in on the armature for the feature itself. The prefabricated stern headpiece and bow dragon tail of the shipwreck were the first pieces to be set in place. Everything else will be built around these two pieces.
Toothy grin - times two hundred
I'm not big on skull imagery but when one is building a pirate themed project they definitely need to be there. Scallywag Bay in Trinidad will be surrounded by a steel fence and plain old bars wouldn't do. We decided the skull and crossed wrenches logo should be featured in the centre of each fence panel. To look proper the logos would be cut and welded into the bars which meant we needed to cut two hundred and twenty half inch thick logos from plate steel. The heavy plate steel arrived today - all nineteen thousand pounds of it! We used the forklift to put the first sheet of steel onto the MultiCam CNC plasma cutter and set it in motion. It's going to take a few days to accomplish the task but we did almost thirty pieces today.
