Sunday, April 26, 2020

Build Your Own Burning Man )'( Part One



Build Your Own
)'(
Burning Man I




With Burning Man cancelled this year (2020), I'm feeling quite depressed. With amazingly little digging I came across some vague plans for how the man was built in the early 2000's. I decided to give it a go.

What follows will be a Step by Step on how I built my own Man.

Part Two: The Arms is right HERE!


The Plan

I decided to start with converting measurements to make everything about 1/4 the size of the original man. He was around 50' tall so mine will be around 12' tall. This is a reasonable size for my yard. :-)


Man Build Measurements
(all in inches)
ARMS
Arm Rings - 5 each arm
From plans (radius)7.597.564.5
My design (radius)1.8752.251.8751.51.125
Arm Ring SpacingPostouterRib
From plans377.527.52527.53015
My design9.251.8756.8756.256.8757.53.75
LEGS
Leg Ring - 6 each leg
From plans (radius)1717151311977
My design (radius)4.254.253.753.252.752.251.751.75
Leg Ring SpacingPostouterRib
From Plans66124040363228242020
My design16.531010987655

Working on the Head

I decided to start with the head. This part seems to me to be more art than anything else. So, measurements are what you make of them. It will be approximately 13" tall on it's own. Just playing with a layout here:



Faces are done!


The head completed!