Mandarin Orange Crate Helicopter Day Two

This is the fourth year that I've built a mandarin orange crate vehicle, this year I decided to try to do a helicopter. There are some problems with it but nothing that can't be solved with some adjustments, I think that it looks too boxy right now like a truck instead of a chopper so I need to remove the sides and change them out with something else.

Time is also a factor, there's a lot going on this holiday season (as always) and I may not get as much time with the piece to get the look I want.

Come back in a few days and we'll see where I'm at.

A.Shay Hahn

madcraftshoppe@live.com

 

Hard at work goofing off

I think some people over on fb are under the impression that these vehicles and scenes that I'm building for A.H.T are whole kits, it's time to set the record straight. What I do is take many different elements, popsicle sticks, tiny dowels, dollarama vehicle kits, stray chunks of wood from carpentry shops and assemble them into sets, vehicles and whatever else I'd like to build for A.H.T, it all comes from my imagination. Pictured above is a transport vehicle and also a groovy electric wheelchair. I wanted to show some stuff at the unpainted stage so you can see that it's all me.

I have been building a ton of vehicles and sets (let's just call them sets instead of dioaramas) and have not hardly had the time to post anything here to explain what each vehicle is or the locations I'm building, at the same time I don't want it to be wasted, if I write about everything there won't be any excitement to discover new things in the stories. SO I promise that I am going to go back into the blog and write detailed things about the stuff that is already here, that way when publishers and folks in Hollywood get to the blog they can already see what will become the action set pieces in the A.H.T trilogy of movies.

enjoy, all the best, we'd love to hear from you,

A.Shay Hahn

madcraftshoppe@live.com