Life-size boat model kit sprue

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By Sean Michael Ragan
Posted 2009/12/16 @ 9:08 am
Category Art & Design, Makers

Swedish artist Michael Johansson made this life-size dinghy “model kit” from a real boat and related equipment. The pieces of “TOYS’R'US,” as it’s called, are fastened together by a welded tubular frame and painted a uniform gray. Michael has done several of these 1:1 “model” kits made from life-size original objects. [via Dude Craft]

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9 Responses to Life-size boat model kit sprue

Simon on December 16th, 2009 at 10:23 am said:

Reminds me of the ‘model’ car on the set of Top Gear.

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- Simon on April 27th, 2012 at 4:54 pm said:
  
  Can you give me an episode from youtube or just pictures of the model? I’m planning to make one from cars in the scarp yard and display it in my living room. Thanks a lot.
  
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Phillip Torrone on December 16th, 2009 at 10:35 am said:

this is the coolest thing i’ve seen this year, nice find

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- Gareth Branwyn on December 16th, 2009 at 12:28 pm said:
  
  Hah! I was just going to write the same exact thing!
  
  Incredible. Can’t get enough “sprue art.” I wish the UK cover to Cory’s book, Makers, was the US cover.
  
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Gareth Branwyn on December 16th, 2009 at 12:38 pm said:

BTW: If you subscribe to the Make: Newsletter ( http://makezine.com/newsletter/ ), and read my new Maker’s Dictionary column there, you know that “sprue” is a term generally applied to all parts of the injection molding frame that are not the pieces being cast, when in fact, “sprue” technically only applies to the injection channels that feed the parts directly. The place (or places) where the mold material enters the mold is called the “gate,” and the larger, outer channels that feed the sprues are called “runners.”

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- Simon on December 16th, 2009 at 3:32 pm said:
  
  I bet you’re popular at parties
  
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Volkemon on December 16th, 2009 at 5:55 pm said:

Wow… first Clowder…now all these newly defined words..

THANKS!! Comments RULE!!!

As said by a popular radio host- “Words mean things”

Glad to know what they mean.

Thanks Gareth.

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Sven on December 16th, 2009 at 6:02 pm said:

Meh, James May did a full scale spitfire model on his show Toy Stories

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Becky Stern on December 17th, 2009 at 9:58 am said:

Freakin’ rad!

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