Leica Chicken

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Ladies and Gentlemen,
This is what happens when you mix three parts beer, one part boredom, and two parts extra clay....

I don't know how to post photos in posts, so I'm sorry that you'll just have to click the links:

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=17292

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=17291


Yes, I know the cigar drooped a bit, as well as his hair-do, that's a result of me not being too familiar with this clay, and having baked it a little too hot. Also pardon the somewhat crappy nature of the photography, since I don't have a macro on my little digi-thing.

By the way, this guy's about one and a half inches tall.

At present, my new chicken collection consists of this Leica Chicken, a Fly-fishing Chicken (complete with rainbow trout of course), and a Business Chicken with a cigar and telephone.
 
Very cute indeed! You do have good skill in art and craft! 🙂
 
bobo,
to post in a thread, use the 'pot reply' button and not the quick reply button on the bottom of the page.
after you hit post reply, on the bottom of that page go to 'maage attachments' and you can upload a pic or 5.

joe
 
Thanks for all the kind words, I think by looking at these chickens, it should be fairly obvious that I try not to take myself TOO seriously.

The "Business Chicken" is at my wife's office, I'll try to get a few pictures of him on Tuesday. By then, I may even have a few more chickens if anybody is interested. I'll leave the subject matter, or shall I say the character identities a secret, so that they might surprise people.

This is the flyfishing chicken, and my my was he hard to photograph. I could probablly do a better job if I set up a dedicated space for it, until then bare with me. I did some photoshop manipulation on "pic 44" because when I made him, I was running out of white clay, so I had to wrap brown clay in white, and probablly missed an air bubble while I was doing it; his belly cracked.
The fish is actually supposed to hang off in front of him, he's supposed to sit on a shelf, as if he's really fishing, but that was just too hard to photograph.
Cheers
 
Traut,
I tried to send you a PM, but it looks like your box is full.

If you're interested (that goes for anybody) in buying such a chicken, then I have to say, I rarely turn down money, so the answer is yes.

However, I won't sell these exact chickens, because they're not perfect, rather they were experiments. I would be more than happy to make another one, one that will be perfect. Make an offer, and we'll talk. On tuesday I'm going to get some more clay, and I think there's a metallic silver one offered, so there is some potential for making a chrome leica or something like a FED or Zorki, if anybody's interested. I could even add some appropriate Soviet attire.

If anybody is interested, I can continue to post pics of the chickens as they roll off the production line, hee hee.
Cheers
 
Incidentally, here's a couple pic's of an octopus I made for my wife the other day...she likes eating octopus, so I made her one. Perhaps it's a bit morbid that she'll have him staring at her all day in reproachingly.
 
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