Post #382992 by Cammo on Wed, May 28, 2008 12:29 PM

I'll post a final shot of ZorMok and it's children later, I'm on to the next projects - a mask and a MONSTER LOG.

Here's the Monster Log - it's the stump of a fan palm that guarded the Hwy 5 entrance to Pacific Beach here in Merry San Diego for years and years. It died, and I spotted a tree servive chopping it up. A quick phone call later, and Buzzy rushed over to grab the stump part - it was way too big for my car.

The problem is, it's a freakin' MONSTER. It's big, ugly, heavy as hell and coated with a 3 inch thick hide of bark that growls when you try to scape it iff. Draw knives won't touch it, they sort of bounce off like bullets from Superman's chest. There's Gman's foot and the leetle teeny utility knife I've been using to saw away the husk.

It just won't come off. I'm down to actually chiseling it off a section at a time with my scoop chisel. It's giving off this creepy sand/dust and seems to be sprouting hair wherever I cut it.

Here it is, ominously rising out of the mist;

Laytah.