Post #184641 by Palama Tiki on Tue, Sep 6, 2005 6:09 AM

Hope you all had a great Labor Day weekend! Here's my latest Moai carved from AAC. He stands 3' 8" tall.

Here he is unpainted...

and then with his pukao headdress painted the color of red scoria like the originals, and a dark gray basalt ahu.

I took some liberties with the body style: although the Rapa Nui originals have man-breasts and pot-bellies, as an endurance athlete, I couldn't bring myself to carve a flabby Moai, so I buffed him up abit. I also stylized the arms and hands crossing the lower belly.