themodelmaker

Finished sculpt of Ellie from Disney/Pixar animation Up to fit the dollhouse. She is going for adventures with Carl and Russell in their flying house. My alternative happy ending
“Up” figurines on Ebay here

I am back from my trip to Barcelona. I was lucky to get the narrow window of oportunity when Dublin airport was not closed because of volcanic activity in Iceland.
It was busy 6 days, many things to see. I spent whole day in Porta Ventura theme park, lots of great rides, almost no queues, not bad shows and nice sets and decorations ( but not as good as in Disneyland Paris). I went to many museums looking for models in all of them. Great collection of plaster models can be find in La Pedrera designed by Antoni Gaudi. They beautifully explain shapes and construction of his masterpieces. In Sagrada Familia you can see fragments of gigantic maquette of the  temple and smaller models explaining its details. Many people is working on its renovation because Gaudi’s workshop was destroyed during revolution. I like the idea of designing with models, it was more sculptural process.

I went to the small chocolate museum, with big sweet sculptures of people, buildings and characters from asterix, lucky lucke and other comics and animated movies. I found there this chocolate model of house from movie “Up” and I was really surprised with its low quality when you compare it to other exhibits. It was smaller and without name of the artist, so I presume it was made by museum staff on one of the workshops. I decided to take a photo of it anyways.

This reminded me about my little figurines waiting for paint. Russell was almost ready before my departure so expect photos soon.
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