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Replicas de artículos de películas o televisión.

  • The Nebra Disk

    The Nebra Disk

    The Nebra Sky Disk is, to date, the oldest known depiction of the sky and astronomical phenomena. It is an archaeological find discovered in 1999 on Mount Mittelberg, near Nebra (Saxony-Anhalt, Germany). It is a bronze plaque with gold decorations, almost round, weighing about 2 kg and has a diameter of approximately 32 cm. It belongs to a culture of 3,600 years ago, whose skills were native.

    Wikipedia

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    © LDA Sachsen-Anhalt (Foto: Juraj Lipták)

    Some claim that it was an astronomical instrument, in which are represented the sun, the moon, and 32 points that can represent stars (the Pleiades and other constellations) and two opposing arcs coinciding with the position of the “portion” of horizon East and West on which the sun rises and sets throughout the year.

    There is also a representation of an arc, which some call “solar boat” or “ship”, about whose meaning there is no definitive agreement.

    Others consider is as a simple abstract representation of the sky, with some decorative or ritual value , it may be part of the decoration of a shield (was found with two swords).

    Dating is complicated, because although it has been determined that the burial dates from around 1600 BC, it is difficult for scientists to verify the date of construction, which may have been much earlier.

    The disk as we see it now has a different aspect of the original, which has gone through various stages:

    Estados del disco a lo largo del tiempo. Foto: LDA Sachsen-Anhalt
    Estados del disco a lo largo del tiempo. Foto: LDA Sachsen-Anhalt

    First: Representation of the sun, moon and 32 stars.
    Second: Embedding two arcs on the horizon, (east-west).
    Third: Overlay the “boat”.
    Fourth: Drilling at the edges.

    When it was buried, has missed one of the two horizon arcs.

    Here you have the page of the museum where it is currently located:

    http://www.himmelsscheibe-erleben.de/

    And more:

    http://www.lda-lsa.de/en/nebra_sky_disc/

    http://allgriffs.blogspot.com.es/2012/06/nebra-sky-disc.html

    Despite the lack of agreement and the many interpretations of its origin and function, it certainly is a valuable finding that has been included in the “Memory of the World” by Unesco.

    Since we saw it a while ago we thought it was an object that had to decorate our house, and here is our interpretation.

    nebra8 (Large)
    nebra2 (Large)

    Made carved and painted by hand on an aluminum plate, a half scale. Has a diameter of 15 cm and is provided in a frame and protected with a front glass.

    nebra1 (Large)

    nebra9 (Large)

    References:

    http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disco_celeste_de_Nebra
    http://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-technology/secrets-nebra-sky-disc-001526

  • Restoration work. I

    Restoration work. I

    One of our readers asked us if we could help him  with some plaster friezes. They were old and some of the pieces were broken. As it was not possible to find the same ones, we made a silicone mold to make a couple of new pieces. (and assure the customer that he could do it again, or ask us to make more copies if necessary).

    Here are some pictures of the process.

    1. The box.

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    2. Silicone mold and original piece.2

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    3. First layer of plaster.

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    4.Fiberglass to reinforce. The broken ones didn’t had any reinforcement..

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    5. The last layer of plaster has slits for easy wall mounting.

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    6. Copy (still fresh).

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    7. Placed with its  “ancestors”, which obviously after a hundred years, they have another color … Nothing that can not be fixed in the next century …

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  • Customizing a motorcycle, scale 1/24

    Customizing a motorcycle, scale 1/24

    A few weeks ago we were commissioned to make a motorcycle Ducati 250 Deluxe 1971, since is not in the market. Specifically this:

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    Building it from scratch meant an amount of time and effort that made it an unviable work for a gift and the time with which we had, so we offered the possibility of modifying a commercial scale model “ducati 350 mk3 desmo 1974” that did not had much to do in terms of aesthetics, but overall structure itself served us as a good working basis.

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    The model is 1/24 scale, which means that the total length is about 9cm.

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    The first thing we did was to disassemble all that had to change and make a copy of the principal piece (tank and seat base).

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    From the resin copy, we could work more easily, sanding and cutting the with picture as a model.

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    The tank had no resemblance, either the seat , so we did in these and other parts a base with modeling clay, oven hardened, to retouch then more carefully.

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    For painting, we draw a mask to apply the two tones more accurately than doing it freehand.

    Chassis only had to change the color and the position of the dampers.

    This was the result:

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    Finally, we used the urn in which came the model and deleted the labeling to add a new one.

    Moto in presentation box

    Thanks Patricia for letting us play a little, we hope he was pleasantly surprised.

    Currently, we are sorry to inform you that, due to time isues, we can no longer accept this type of orders.