I draw out the plan and then pierce it out from a 1 mm sheet of brass.
I make the sides out of cardboard first.
Then I solder the sides on and bend them into various forms.
Then I prop the body up and work out the diameter of the wheels.
Making the spokes of a wheel is always a mission.
With this one, I draw them out on a flat sheet of carving wax and pierce out the shape with a wax saw.
After carving them into the shape I want, I sand cast them using the Delft sand casting technique.
After casting, I trim off the excess.
Basic rear wheel set.
I file the rims and fix them in place with placer screws.
For the front wheels I pierced the spokes out of 3 mm brass plate.
The axles will be made next.
I sand cast some Demon supports for the front axle.
Axles fitted and Demon supports are in place. Trust me, I know what I am doing.
Making the demons out of copper plate.
The eyes are a silver ring that will get the cabochon and a painted iris in later.
Most of the demons are made this way.
Fitting the demons onto the soul catcher.
Starting the ghoul face.
Adding more copper strips.
Ghoul finished with patina.
Staring with the soul flitter darts.
Shaping them.
I want them to be perched onto the rear struts like little dragon fly thingi's that buzz out and catch passing souls.
I drew a design on them and pierced it out
This was for the prep for plique-à-jour enameling.
I turned some basic bodies out of brass and screwed them onto the wings.
I made a nose claw out of aliminium, added an iron stinger in the tail.
Then I made six legs for each. I set them up in wax.
Then I set them in casting plaster.
That way I could solder the center portion in more easily.
Breaking the plaster apart.
Here is the basic soul dart.
I melted a glass rod into two bobbles on each side of the head so it locks into place.
The legs stand on a complicated support that forms a cage.
The green glass is captured in between the legs, symbolically representing a catholic bishop's pedophile soul.
The wings are packed with enamel before firing.
The wings after firing and cleaning up and polishing.
Showing the legs on the rear landing supports.
From below showing the enamel and glass work.
Making the front soul catchers. Copper, iron and brass.
Polished, stabilized and ready to be mounted.
I used glow in the dark resin to make the leaf petals.
Three demon heads. Still have to do the eyes.
A close up of one of the demon flowers.
There are six of those, all different.
Another one, each more evil than the next.
Making the rear wheel tracks.
After the treads are cut out, they are domed.
One of the wheels being assembled.
I like the ribbles on the side of the wheel. I cut them out with a separating disk.
Then I round the tips with a cup burr.
I made these for all four wheels.
All the wheels have the same soul grippers and hooking ability.
I glued charcoal pieced into the center and then painted them so they looked like they were glowing.
Close up of another demon.
All the wheels have the same soul grippers and hooking ability.
This one has peridot eyes that I faceted.
This one has citrine eyes.
This is a soul gripper. It needs to be strong because when evil souls are caught, they are very heavy with sin.
Rear view.
Close up of a front wheel.
It's got the shit ton of demons ready to catch all the depraved pedophile souls and bring them down to the chief demon for eternal processing.
There is about 500 hours of work in this piece.
Glass and brass display box.
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