{"id":1047,"date":"2014-07-09T20:01:43","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T20:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stichler.co.uk\/?p=1047"},"modified":"2014-09-04T21:05:25","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T21:05:25","slug":"home-guard-heads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/07\/09\/home-guard-heads\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Guard Heads"},"content":{"rendered":"

An interesting one this ~ to carve two life-size “Dad’s Army”- style heads for a village-fete-type game (I can’t say more than that ~ it’s Top Secret!).<\/p>\n

I had a polystyrene head to guide me with the dimensions of the carvings, as I had to make sure that the helmets would fit on comfortably ; apart from that, the idea was simply to give them surprised or comical expressions.<\/p>\n

I ordered some oak blocks of the correct dimensions, and got to work drawing on the profile.<\/p>\n

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After this came the tedious job of roughing out the shape.<\/p>\n

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After this stage it gets a bit more enjoyable, making the head look a little more realistic rather than like a robot or Lego man.<\/p>\n

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Once the shape is established, the detail goes on…..<\/p>\n

\"allen-stichler-oak-head-carving\"<\/a>\u00a0 …..and the finishing touch……<\/p>\n

\"a-stichler-oak-head-carving\"<\/a>\u00a0 …….the helmet.<\/p>\n

The next one will be a thinner face and both heads are to be painted by the customer.<\/p>\n

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An interesting one this ~ to carve two life-size “Dad’s Army”- style heads for a village-fete-type game (I can’t say more than that ~ it’s Top Secret!). I had a polystyrene head to guide me with the dimensions of the carvings, as I had to make sure that the helmets would fit on comfortably ; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carving-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1047"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1204,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047\/revisions\/1204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}