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Metal Toy Soldier Miniature continued

 

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Russian Warrior Miniature Continued

 

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Russian Warrior Miniature Continued

 

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Miniature Museum

Russian warrior 13th century EK castings

Russian Warrior Miniature Continued

Miniature Collector

 

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Miniature Craftsman

Medieval warrior miniature

Miniature collector

 

[yeghor]

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Do you do miniatures or DIY model planes or cars yourself? There are also people on youtube who restore thrown away model cars or stuff into former glory.

 

[typologyenthusiast]

Do you do miniatures or DIY model planes or cars yourself? There are also people on youtube who restore thrown away model cars or stuff into former glory.

No. I still need much to learn how to do it. But I have once forgotten childhood hobbies that I managed to remember again a couple of years ago, one of them is origami or paper craft (e.g). IMO, Miniature making and origami is somewhat similar in the spirit to make a distinct shape. What makes them different is in material usage. Origami' s material is paper which is easy and affordable to get, while what, and how to get miniature material are unsolved problems for me right now. Another problem to me is the dexterity and the equipment so that the artist can sculpt a distinct miniature shape from it. AFAIK, in general origami does not require any additional shaping devices but hands, while as I watch on the videos, miniature craftsmans utilize many, which, I am unfortunately not familiar with most of them. In 2019, I had a client who asked me to make a paper craft but since the craft he demanded was too complicated for me, I didn't try to meet it. You can see the screen capture in this post. In addition to it, In my kindergarten year, I was introduced to Plasticine and I started sculpting using it as material at school. After that, In my elementary school Years , my parents bought me Plasticine so that I could sculpt at home. I remember that I took sticks from this broom
to make a sort of "skeleton" to assemble the plasticine-shaped separated human body parts so that I could sculpt a full human body. The human body sculpted could have been better if I had learnt human anatomy and used other material like gips or clay.

 

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An Artistic Masterpiece: Peacock Clock

For more than two centuries now the Hermitage has been adorned by a unique exhibit that never fails to evoke the enchanted admiration of visitors - the famous Peacock Clock. The figures of a peacock, cockerel and owl that form part of this elaborate timepiece-automaton are fitted with mechanisms that set them in motion.

The creation of mechanical birds had long been of interest to inventors: back in the Ancient World figures of "singing" birds had been used to embellish clepsydras - water clocks. In the 18th century the makers of automata tried to create a system that would enable their birds not only to sing, but also to behave as if alive, and they made them life-size. In the middle of the century, for example, the whole of Europe admired the mechanical duck made by the French craftsman Jacques de Vaucanson, which was able to eat, drink, move and behave in the most life-like manner.

The most celebrated creator of mechanisms of this sort in the second half of the 18th century was the London jeweller and goldsmith James Cox. His fertile imagination generated ideas that were then turned into reality by the craftsmen and mechanics of his company. Cox's firm produced a large number of elaborate automata, sumptuously decorated in a great variety of ways, for European and Eastern clients. Cox became truly famous, however, when in 1772 he opened his own museum - the Spring Gardens, in which he exhibited a large number of mechanical figures of exotic animals, birds and human beings. To fund the making of expensive automata Cox organized lotteries: in London in 1773 and in Dublin the next year. A surviving catalogue of the Dublin lottery lists two peacocks as numbers 6 and 8. From the description of the items it is clear that this pair of automata differed from the Hermitage composition: the peacock was perched on an oak stump, around which two snakes twined. There is no mention of the figures of a cockerel and owl, or of the mushroom that acts as the clock dial.

The history of the Hermitage's Peacock Clock begins in 1777, when the Duchess of Kingston visited St Petersburg. Balls were given in the Russian capital in honour of this wealthy and distinguished guest. Grigory Potiomkin, who met the Duchess in society, learned of James Cox's magnificent mechanisms. Pandering to Catherine II's passion for collecting, the Prince commissioned the celebrated craftsman to make a monumental automaton with a clock for the Empress's Hermitage. In order to meet this expensive order as quickly as possible, Cox, whose financial affairs were currently not in the best of health, decided to use an existing mechanical peacock that featured in the Dublin lottery. He expanded the composition with a cockerel, owl and a clock mechanism with a dial incorporated into the head of a mushroom, and removed the snakes. To create his new automaton, Cox recruited the assistance of Friedrich Jury, a German craftsman who had settled in London.

The Peacock Clock arrived in St Petersburg in 1781. The records of the Winter Palace chancellery listing the valuables that Catherine II acquired in that year include mention of two payments - on 30 September and 14 December - to the clockmaker Jury for a clock delivered from England. The payments amounted to 11,000 roubles (around 1,800 pounds sterling) and were made from the Empress's personal funds on the basis of a letter from Prince Potiomkin.

The clock was brought to Russia in pieces. At Potiomkin's request the Russian mechanic Ivan Kulibin set it in working order. From 1797 to the present day the Peacock Clock has been one of the Hermitage's most famous exhibits. It is, moreover, the only large 18th-century automaton in the world to have come down to us unaltered and in a functioning condition.

 

[typologyenthusiast]

Boat, Ship, Cruise, Tanker Miniature

Phinisi Miniature

Cruise Miniature

Titanic

Sailing Boat

Tanker

H M S Bellona 1760 Miniature

San Francisco XVI Miniature

P.S: I didn't know that in Indonesia, we have some talented miniature craftsman also.

 

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Javanese Puppet Show Culture
A couple of years ago, I visited Puppet Museum in Jakarta and took picture some of the puppets exhibited. The lighting is not the best (it is rather dark inside) and I used my cell phone and had to use flash to take these pictures, so the photos quality could have been better. Below are the pictures that I have taken.
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Below are videos that a visitor has recently uploaded on youtube with better picture quality.

I must emphasize that The puppets are not just for display only, like in the museum. Instead, They are played. If you are familiar with action figures, these puppets are not like them. While action figure seems to me like a more modern version of the traditional puppets, unlike those puppets, Action figure is arguably made for display only. In fact, action figures don't have the hand grip, where "Dalang" put his hands on in traditional puppets. Indonesian usually call puppet in local language "wayang". Indonesia has traditional puppet theater show, which is actually an old culture originated from the Javanese. Some says that it was influenced by Indian Hindu Myth: Mahabharata, Ramayana. But have you ever seen puppet theater shown in India in Hindi? Indian influence may have been partly acknowledged in the story. But probably not so in the show as a whole.

UNESCO, the agency in charge of culture from the United Nations, on November 7, 2003 designated wayang as a famous puppet shadow show from Indonesia, an invaluable world heritage in the art of speech (Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity).Actually, puppet shows do not only exist in Indonesia because many other countries have puppet shows. However, shadow puppet shows (Wayang) in Indonesia have their own unique and unique style of speech, which are original masterpieces from Indonesia. For this reason, UNESCO included it in the Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2003.It is thought that performing arts were brought in by Indian traders. However, the local genius and culture that existed before the arrival of Hinduism merged with the development of performing arts that entered giving its own color to the performing arts in Indonesia. Until now, the earliest records that can be obtained about wayang performances come from the Balitung Inscription in the 4th Century which reads as si Galigi mawayang.

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The language in which the puppet theater is played in is still Javanese. The puppet master who play them is called "Dalang". During a show, Dalang usually tells a story and dubs the voice of each wayang Character that he plays.
Below is a video of one of the traditional puppet theater show.

Btw, In my childhood, I used to play plastic soldier miniature like Dalang plays his puppets. But, unlike Dalang, I did not play in front of audiences. I played while sitting in front of a sofa and turned the usual sofa sitting place into "a stage" for the soldier miniature. I talked on my own when playing.
The plastic soldier miniature was more or less similar to the one played by these kids in terms of size and shape quality despite differences in poses.

 

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I must emphasize that The puppets are not just for display only, like in the museum. Instead, They are played. If you are familiar with action figures, these puppets are not like them. While action figure seems to me like a more modern version of the traditional puppets, unlike those puppets, Action figure is arguably made for display only. In fact, action figures don't have the hand grip, where "Dalang" put his hands on in traditional puppets. Indonesian usually call puppet in local language "wayang". Indonesia has traditional puppet theater show, which is actually an old culture originated from the Javanese. Some says that it was influenced by Indian Hindu Myth: Mahabharata, Ramayana. But have you ever seen puppet theater shown in India in Hindi? Indian influence may have been partly acknowledged in the story. But probably not so in the show as a whole.

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The language in which the puppet theater is played in is still Javanese. The puppet master who play them is called "Dalang". During a show, Dalang usually tells a story and dubs the voice of each wayang Character that he plays.
Below is a video of one of the traditional puppet theater show.

I'd heard of these but didn't know what they looked like from the other side.

 

[typologyenthusiast]

Pirates of Carribean "Black Pearl" Miniature

Queen Anne’s Revenge miniature

Pirates of Carribean Ghost Ship: The Flying Dutchman Miniature

Prince william Ship Miniature

I admire the excellent detail by a Russian craftsman.

 

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Origami arts by Robert J Lang

I am a fan of him in Origami.

 

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Geometry Arts By Rafael Araujo
Blue Morpho Double Helix

Breathtaking!
Nautilus

Amazing!
Blue Spikes Shell

Golden Shell

Impressive!. It is Meticulously Drawn!

Posion Shell

Stunning!
Blue Stripes Shell

Awesome!
Semi-Flat Shell

blue-morpho-sequence

Rafael Araujo Ted X talks

Rafael Arajujo Brief Introduction and Coloring Books

I want a geometrical drawing guru like him to teach me drawing.

 

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Sclupture by Bathsheba Grossman

The Klein Bottle is a math joke, a surface with one side. Just as it's about to enclose space like a regular bottle, it curves back with a twist and the inner face merges with the outer – and suddenly inside and outside are one, like the side of a Möbius strip.

This neat trick can't quite exist in three dimensions, since the surface has to cross through itself, but at least we can make approximate models. This one is 3D printed in stainless steel, with some bronze for color. It's durable, washable and ergonomic, sized to fit the hand sweetly.

It's the perfect finishing touch for any math fan's kitchen, and you don't have to know a lot of geometry to enjoy it.

Yes, it really opens bottles!

Bathsheba Sculpture - The Klein Bottle Opener

600 Cell

Ornaments

Eggtooth

TuskShell

Laser Crystal
Novel Corona virus

Bathsheba Sculpture - Bathsheba Sculpture LLC

 

[typologyenthusiast]

Skopin, Russia Pottery Center

Coins Have Hidden Booby Traps And Secret Levers​

Bogorodskaya Wooden Toy

 

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Balinese Craftsmanship,Indonesia

Sedana Doll

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Barong Wooden Sclupture

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Pretima Miniature

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Stone Sclupture, Ratu Gede ( in Indonesian language Ratu is equivalent in meaning with "Queen" in english , in Javanese the word Gede is equivalent in meaning with "Great" in English)

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[Indigo Rodent]

Damn, I envy people who have drive and talent to do models/paint miniatures. I'm pretty bad at either due to poor fine motor skills and also can't do the latter due to art block from hell.

Classic John Blanche figures discovered!

 

[typologyenthusiast]

Vietnamese Wood Carving

MMORPG Gran Saga Huge Sculpture​

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Superman Wood Carving

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Dragon Ball

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Batman

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Itachi Uchiha

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[typologyenthusiast]

Krupenichka,Traditional Ukrainian Doll

Motanka, Traditional Ukrainian Doll

The motanka doll is one of the most ancient handmade items in Ukrainian household. Initially fashioned as a domestic symbol of fertility and household guardians, these dolls played an important role in the everyday life of Ukrainians in the old days. While still in use today, the tradition has become more concerned with style and décor than anything ritualistic.
The main peculiarity of the doll is that it should be faceless, often with cross on head. It used to be made of any pieces of fabric that could be found at home. Craftsmen draw no faces (no eyes, nose, mouth) to let small children develop their imagination and think of the doll`s emotions while playing with the doll. According to the ancient popular beliefs, the face inspired a soul in a doll. The soul can be good or bad, so it was safer not to give a soul to the doll at all than to risk giving a bad one. Ukrainians used to believe that the doll would take away the illness from children. It was also believed that motanka protects the house from evil spirits and ghosts.

These dolls are usually made of the natural materials such as hay, straw, wood, herbs, dry leaves, grains, seeds and are filled with fragrant herbs. Motanka dolls were decorated with traditional ornaments and embroidery. These days motanka dolls became popular gift idea for various holidays and weddings. There are different motanka dolls specially made for baby showers, engagements, weddings and even funerals. The doll-motanka of bride helps the girls to turn away the evil eye and support them through their marriage. These dolls are wealthy dressed and decorated because it symbolizes the wealth of the would-be-family. At birth of the child relatives often give the baby doll-motanka. Parents put it in the cradle in order to protect the sleep and the health of the newborn. Traditional Ukrainian motanka dolls are an interesting tradition that survived centuries; these dolls keep protecting the household of modern Ukrainians till our days.
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