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Test mount (22/07/09)

We did a test mount that night, heres how it looked. Sneak preview~!

Group photo

July 23, 2009 at 11:58 pm qikun 1 comment

Update! (20/07/09)

Finally, a quick update. Here is the progress of the float so far. < 3 weeks to go!

: Gears

: Hour Glass

: Watch

: Back of a gear

: Left Right Stairs

: Sundial

: Sundial designs

: Mascot Clock

: Clock Tower Roof

: Digital Watch which covers the lorry head

: Clock Tower

: Our Lorry

July 20, 2009 at 11:13 pm qikun Leave a comment

Float Building and Dance Practice (12/06/09 – 13/06/09)

Our first “official” float building session started with a 2D1N session. Friday was spend continuing the sundial. Quite a few people came that night, the regulars plus Bell, Huiyun, Yi Jia and special appearance from Melvin in Shanghai. Bell designed the sundial top with an SoC design. Went to Fong Seng for supper that night and slept at around 5am. Was a fun night!

The next morning, the dancers arrived for dance practice. More people joined this session as it was a Saturday. The people who were there for the previous session are beginning to master the moves while the new comers are learning fast. Meanwhile the float building team started working on setting up the frame for the clock tower.

We are testing a new feature where a webcam will be installed in TR15, taking pictures every 15 minutes and publishing it online, Live!. Stay tuned…

: Carving the base of the sundial

: Base

: Filling it up

: The crew that night

: Huiyun busy drawing more designs

: cookie talk

: Melvin showing his support from shanghai

: Video conference

: YX setting up mosquito coil

: Marche!

: Marcheing

: 1st layer done

: Bell designing the sundial top

: Cutting out the top

: SoC sundial top

: Looks like a judging panel

: Supper at Fong Seng

: VIP car park for Chef’s car

: Scream joins our float building

: Playing finger DDR

: Wanted dead, not alive.

: Our little investment

: Setting up

: Luxury!

: Dancers arriving early in the morning

: Our new dance practice area

: New flyers will all go through this

: 2nd seesion and pro liao

: shoulder sit demo

: Chair

: lift and then into a swing

: Coming out with more moves

: more new moves

: Clock tower frame

: Adjusting the angle

: Bolting the frame

June 14, 2009 at 2:59 pm qikun Leave a comment

Float Building (10/06/09)

At last we have started building the actual float. Spend most of today shifting the remaining stores into TR15 and brining the carpet up to the roof to sun it. After dinner we started to work on the sundial. A small and relatively easy to start with component. But still, didn’t manage to complete the structure at the end of the day, yet to add the curvy shape to the body. Next time will be complete sundial structure and start on the clock tower. Not much pics for today, busy…

: Creativity, using the projector to help measure and draw a circle

: This stick was not used in the end

: Happy

: Focus

: Thats all for the day

June 11, 2009 at 3:36 am qikun Leave a comment

Float Planning (20/05/09)

Today the people who gone to Japan are back, hope they didn’t bring any H5N1 back. Had a small meeting in the afternoon then we continued on the prototype. Improved on a few things like stairs and cogwheels and added new items and our mascot! We also did some design for some structure. I guess the full view of the float is somewhat near there already, left the center clock tower need to do a proper one.

: Work work

: Left stairs in the making

: Melvin cutting the sun, Yong Xiang doing the left stairs

: Left stairs

: Raphael doing the right stairs

: Lulu multitasking

: Yong Xiang doing the cog wheels

: Everyone working

: Our mascot!

: End result for the day

: Overall with blue background

: Left side

: Right side

May 21, 2009 at 12:53 am qikun Leave a comment

Float Planning (15/05/09)

Continuing on the prototype. Did the hourglass and sundial today. Next will be to cover the lorry head. The whole thing ideally is a 1:20 prototype. =).