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Palama Tiki's Full-Body Moai |
Palama Tiki
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Joined: Mar 01, 2005
Posts: 349
From: Lake Wales, Florida
|  Posted: 2005-09-06 06:09 am Permalink
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.
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turbosickboy
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From: Malmoe/Sweden
| Posted: 2005-09-06 06:23 am Permalink
great work!
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hewey
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Posts: 4270
From: Sydney, Australia
| Posted: 2005-09-06 06:49 am Permalink
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 
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Palama Tiki
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Posts: 349
From: Lake Wales, Florida
| Posted: 2005-09-06 07:12 am Permalink
Thanks turbosickboy!
Hewey, thanks for the props. just remember, all i do is carve; you carve, paint, and draw...!
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Benzart
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Joined: Jan 09, 2004
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From: Port Saint Lucie, Florida
| Posted: 2005-09-06 09:14 am Permalink
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!
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Palama Tiki
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From: Lake Wales, Florida
| Posted: 2005-09-06 10:19 am Permalink
Thanks Benz... I appreciate it! yep, alot of sanding went into that guy.
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GMAN
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Joined: Jul 14, 2005
Posts: 2994
From: My Island
| Posted: 2005-09-06 12:20 pm Permalink
Dang that's nice....and you said man breasts! Dude, now you have to carve an AAC tiki with man breasts!
-G
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Aaron's Akua
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Joined: Jul 09, 2004
Posts: 1594
From: Rancho Santa Margarita, CA
| Posted: 2005-09-06 12:41 pm Permalink
That's beautiful, Palama. You have really come a long way with the Moai. This one is perfect, really...
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Palama Tiki
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Joined: Mar 01, 2005
Posts: 349
From: Lake Wales, Florida
| Posted: 2005-09-06 1:39 pm Permalink
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!
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Sam Gambino
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From: www.samgambino.com
| Posted: 2005-09-06 2:35 pm Permalink
PT - A very fine piece indeed!
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SwampCreature
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Joined: Jun 15, 2005
Posts: 76 | Posted: 2005-09-06 4:10 pm Permalink
Please pardon my ignorance, but what is AAC?
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Polynesiac
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Joined: Jan 29, 2004
Posts: 2022
From: San Pedro, CA
| Posted: 2005-09-06 5:02 pm Permalink
swampy- links about AAC
Everything you always wanted to know about Aerated Concrete Blocks (AAC) for tiki carving:
http://www.tikiroom.com/tikicentral/bb/viewtopic.php?topic=10055&forum=7&hilite=aac
AAC Carving Post:
http://www.tikiroom.com/tikicentral/bb/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.
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Tikiwahine
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Joined: Apr 09, 2003
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From: Ontario, Canada
| Posted: 2005-09-06 5:05 pm Permalink
Really nice moai, you've got some great carving skills there!
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finkdaddy
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Joined: May 11, 2004
Posts: 2050
From: Wisconsin
| Posted: 2005-09-06 5:31 pm Permalink
Cool! He looks so smug, like a true island god should.
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Palama Tiki
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Joined: Mar 01, 2005
Posts: 349
From: Lake Wales, Florida
| Posted: 2005-09-07 05:53 am Permalink
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?
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