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Palama Tiki's Full-Body Moai

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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.

great work!

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hewey posted on Tue, Sep 6, 2005 6:49 AM

Man Palama, considering we took up the AAC at the same time you really showing me up! These things are gorgeous. Love to see one with the whole body/head done in the grey finish with the red headrest. Awesome work dude. You must have a moai forest happenin now :)

Thanks turbosickboy!

Hewey, thanks for the props. just remember, all i do is carve; you carve, paint, and draw...!

B

Nice one palama, I love the body. You sanded the hell out of him too,, so much I bet he sings in the church choir. Nice paint job too!

Thanks Benz... I appreciate it! yep, alot of sanding went into that guy.

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GMAN posted on Tue, Sep 6, 2005 12:20 PM

Dang that's nice....and you said man breasts! Dude, now you have to carve an AAC tiki with man breasts!

-G

That's beautiful, Palama. You have really come a long way with the Moai. This one is perfect, really...

GMAN, i KNEW i shouldn't have said 'man-breasts'! :) thanks, bro.

A-A: thank you... i don't know about the perfect part, but i'm trying! thanks for all the inspiration!

PT - A very fine piece indeed!


http://www.samgambino.com

Please pardon my ignorance, but what is AAC?

swampy- links about AAC
Everything you always wanted to know about Aerated Concrete Blocks (AAC) for tiki carving:
http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=10055&forum=7&hilite=aac

AAC Carving Post:
http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=16053&forum=7&hilite=aac

Palama - that is one seriously awesome moai! Very well done. I gotta give that AAC a go one of these days.

Really nice moai, you've got some great carving skills there!

F

Cool! He looks so smug, like a true island god should.

Sam: thanks, my friend. I hope you are doing OK.

Polynesiac: thanks for the props and providing the links.. i'd love to see what you can do with the AAC!

Tikiwahine, I appreciate the kind words.

Fink, thanks...! where have you been?

Fink has been carving a penis.

Nice work Palama!

to go with the man-breasts? :)

thanks Jungle Trader!

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