News and Troubles of Jürka's Tiki Factory

Awesome U are killing it

Cheers

Jon

No-no, my intention is keeping it alive! Thank You!

Nice work

Thanks!

Couple more fairly related items...

• Kon-Tiki, made at Panama Canal anchorage

• Banana-boat where I had sailed 2009...2024

• HMS Bounty, the ship of one of the greatest merchant stories, which lies now on the bottom near Pitcairn coast (not sure if any of it still remains there for today). Model's hull and masts were produced at sea while sailing between Pitcairn and Rapa Nui islands.

Very cool!

I've seen videos of how those are made to fit through the opening. It's a great skill to accomplish that. Love the Kon Tiki.

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Thanks!

PS, You have very nice moai in your backyard!

There's many different ways, additional to classic masts-folding. I have used combined methods - masts foldings, on Bounty had to remake it into masts removal (and still happened to be helluva hopelessly tight! and afterwards de-attaching needed extra brainpain), Lego-style connection of superstructure to the hull, and for Kon-Tiki I made up my own special construction to make the wide raft fit...

Thank you Jurka, that was a fun project :)

One far away day in long coming future I must try to make my version of it, being in my secret plans for many years... I have thought to do it pretty much same method as yours, but I guess with thicker layer of concrete, smaller in scale (most probably for indoors use, so about 2 m in height maximum), but with full body (and hair). With very light inside, and heavy layer over it, is your moai rather heavy or light? Is it movable by hand? ...by wind? ...or heavy as stuck on the spot forever?