These are photos from several models we did for
The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures
in 2004 and 2005

 

Antarctica in our workshop                Antarctica in the lecture theatre of the RI                Hairbox        

In 2004 we made a huge model of Antarctica. The second picture
was taken in the Lecture Theatre, that should 
give you an impression of the size. The white box
on the right was a scaled up cut-out of the skin,
demonstrating the blood flow in cold and warm skin.

Following on from the 2004 Christmas Lectures
we got a request from the lecturer Prof. Lloyd Peck
to build an Albatross chick on it's nest.

 

Beeky the Albatross                    He's looking at you....isn't he cute?    

Actually the job was to make it possible open the birds beak
to demonstrate how they are fed and weighed on an
artificial nest, but we got carried away 
and turned him into a puppet that could turn the head
open the beak and move it's wings.
Prof. Peck loved it!

 

Another little job we did for the Royal Institution
was this graphic cut away model of an animal cell

 

Animal cell model

The cell itself was cut out of a flat Perspex panel 
and the cell organelles were than engraved 
and painted with glass colour, to create an illusion of depth.

 

 

And at the end of 2005 it was again time for the Christmas Lectures

 

Giant taste bud                ...and it had nothing to do with the Rolling Stones!

This time the topic was food and we did, amongst other things, a model
of a scaled up taste bud and a large mouth with a tongue
that could be pulled out.