Lizard Tail

A lizard tail proportioned for a human being. It is constructed from foam with a latex skin on the outside. Coating this was fun. Got myself an air compressor and worked out how to spray latex. The leather fitting on the back is so it can be threaded onto a belt.

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Mask for Ben

A Venetian style mask, felt lined with a gloss finish. My friend Ben (modelling the mask) had a design for a mask he wanted made. I took a cast of his face and turned that into a plaster copy. Onto the plaster I sculpted the mask in clay, then took another plaster cast of that. Into that plaster mould I papier mached the mask. Painting was done in enamels with a gloss laquer after that. Half the face is smooth while the other half is melting. Ben informs me it is very comfy.

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Blunderbow Ammunition & Hunting Bag

Ammunition with carrier for the Blunderbow. The bolts are built to LARP specification so they can be safely shot at people.

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Some Fake Weapons

A small batch of foam weapons for LARP. The scimitar is of note as it required me to work out a method of making a curved carbonfibre core.

Steampunk Conductor's Baton

Conductors baton. Made for the Clockwork Quartet out of brass tubing and parts salvaged from an old light fitting. Pictures thanks to Jason Griffiths.

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The tip unscrews to reveal a miniature screw-driver. Just because.

Steampunk Spurs

A pair of spurs made in the steampunk aesthetic. Apart from the cogs all components were scratch built. Created for my costume in the Clockwork Quartet.

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Big Gun

A really big, magnum style, handgun prop. Purely aesthetic, no moving parts. The chamber section I found on a toy gun and I wondered what if I made a 'realistic' gun around that to the same scale. The rest was scratch built from plywood, plastic and a lot of car body filler.

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Lego Skeleton Jewellery

A necklace and earrings made from Lego skeleton parts. I have been of the opinion that Lego skeletons are awesome for a while now.

Steampunk Drone

The Steamdrone is a non-functioning steampunk styled musical device. Built for the Clockwork Quartet as a centrepiece for the stage show. It is designed to house a laptop, amp and speakers for any backing noises. When not set up, it all packs down into the box

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Broken Hearted Earrings

Earrings made for my lady fiend's (correctly spelt) birthday.

Steampunk Flower

A flower made from brass and wood. Made as a wedding present for my cousin Siofra out of materials left over from the Blunderbow.

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Blunderbow

It looks like a blunderbuss but it fires crossbow bolts, hence "Blunderbow". The firing mechanism is a bungee cord which is anchored on the inside of the pump.

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Minotaur Helmet

A friend of mine asked me to make a helmet for his minotaur mask. A complete set of armour to match may be following at some point.

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Egyptian Styled Armour

A suit of armour made from fibreglass, scratch built from body casts of the guy who comissioned the suit. The stylings are drawn from egyptian art but the form of the armour was made up

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Alien Costume

A costume made for a Larp ran by my brother in California, made very fast on a tight budget. The event ran at night though which meant I could get away with something that gave the impression of something menacing without having to stand up to closer scrutiny. The day after the event there happened to be an open day on the Stanford campus so myself and a friend Daniel decided we should do some performance art and have the monster chasing a human marine character around campus. One small girl in particular wanted the monster to win and kept pointing out where the marine was hiding.

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Helmet

Helmet made out of fibreglass. While working at RA Props we were doing the stage production of Spamalot. Turned out we had made too many Knights of Ni helmets, so I took one of the spare ones and did it up for my own amusement.

Living Statue: Hot Fuzz

Again while working at RA Props, got given some clothes to paint bronzy gold. Turned out they were used for the living statue in the film 'Hot Fuzz'.

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Blue Birds

A number of bird heads and three left wings. Worked on them with a team of others at RA Props. I think they were for a German production of Shakespeare?

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Sir Spam-a-Lot

While working for RA Props, I worked on a load of bits and bobs for the London production of Sir Spam-a-Lot

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Tin Man, London Production of Wicked

Back when I was working at RA Props I headed up a small team making the Tin Man costume for the London production of Wicked. They had four different guys who the costume had to fit, each with a radically different body shape and they only wanted three complete sets.

Cat Mask

First project I was ever given at RA Props. A cat mask for an opera.

Ringmail With Plate

I wanted to make some Eastern styled ringmail. A common feature of Eastern ringmail and chainmail is an ornate circular body plate. Rather than going to all the trouble of crafting such a plate, I found a brass tea tray which I cut the rim from, drilled appropriate holes and shaped. This plate has upon it what appears to be a fire-breathing chicken, an unexpected bonus.

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Twisted Thing

A sculpture created in Second Life. It is comprised entirely of tori arranged in a circle and rotated in a wave around the circle. Through pictures is really not the way to view the work. To really get a feel for it you have to be seeing it in 3D space.

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Wire Man

A lifesize human figure made in 5mm iron rods, holding a candle. I used to weld garden sculptures for a guy called Alex Rocke. We had a load of iron rods left over from a cancelled order and let me have a play with them. Ended up selling this piece through a local gallery (in Malmesbury) for £1200, which was nice.

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Pennymail

A suit of scale mail armour made out of pennies drilled in a hexagonal pattern. Made over a period of three years. If I were to make one these days I'd get access to a laser cutter and make a jig to hold pennies in set locations. As it was I used a drill press and it took a very long time.

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Transparent Armour

Two complete suits of authentic Gothic battle harness made entirely from transparent materials. Made for the final show of my fine art degree at Sheffield Hallam, a collaboration with Joe Laverack who now runs White Rose Forge.

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Pin Ball

A dense sphere made from pins soldered together. Created as a wedding present for my cousin Ben. Displayed in an old scientific apparatus box.

Peg Star

A structure made from clothes pegs taken apart, glued back to back then re-assembled. Very simple but it pleases me greatly.

Pencil Sphere

A sphere made from pencils super glued together. The pencils are in four alignments, as you would get on a caltrop or the molecular structure of diamond. I originally tried out this structure with straws, seeing the holes for each rod were hexagonal it seemed obvious to use pencils. after enough pencils were stuck together a disk sander was used to get it spherical. It looked more interesting before I sanded it, though the pencils left a beautiful rainbow on the disk sander.

Portrait of Einstein in Chainmail

Made with roughly 10,000 split ring washers anodised in 5 different colours. The image of Einstein was converted into a diamond shaped pixellation to suit chain mail structure. Made as the final piece of my art foundation course at Manchester Metropolitan University. It took a long time.

Pin Heart

A Heart made from pins soldered together. The classic image of a heart recurs in my work. Very cheesy, but hey, love is pretty cheesy if you think about it.

Great Circles

Three circles depicting a sphere. Made from U-shaped tacks soldered together. Very quick and just a sketch really but I really like the result.

Klein Bottle

A Klein Bottle is a closed non-orientable surface that cannot be embedded in three dimensional space without self intersection. Just look at the Wikipedia page. Made using the same technique as the Pin Balloon, except a modelling balloon was used for the neck and clay was used for the joins between the neck and body.

Pin Balloon

A hot air balloon created out of pins soldered together, with a lead radio isotope container for the basket. Pins were stuck into the papier mache of a regular balloon, soldered then the papier mache was cut away. Created as the entry piece for the Art Foundation course at Manchester Metropolitan University. The brief was to create a mode of transport out of a material which is it's antithesis. Pins are not really the antithesis of a hot air balloon but it seemed right, so I did it.