Help,
I have an idea for a humor project but need to find a decent size detailed grasshopper. Best I have found so far is a Science kit that retails for over $100. Don’t need anything that detailed (all the guts) just something in the 4"-10" size. I have pretty much given up on finding a kit of this (wonder if I can convert that praying mantis I have) and am now looking for a decent toy that I can use (like you find at museum gift shops). I prefer it to be a hard plastic but at the rate I am going, may have to take what I can get.
Anybody seen anything I can use?
How about the gift shop at a zoo, they usually have stuff like that. Other than that??
Also, a bait and tackle shop may have grasshoppers. Either live or as lures. If live, just put them in a jar and dump some alcohol on them. Once they are dead, which is pretty fast, then they can be dried and mounted.
If not, check the local school. The bio lab should have some. They are used for dissection classes because they are so big and the parts are good when doing a section on insects.
I thought of that too, Mike, except Philp wants them in the “4-10 inch size”!!!
Not looking for a deceased insect (can get plenty of those in the spring here in Utah) but something I can modify. The Hobbytown here had something that could have worked and I should have picked it up but they went out of business.
Lifelike makes a set of insects with a half cutaway of a cricket. Have considered that but don’t want to build the other side as I need most of the bug for my idea.
Thanks for looking guys. If you see something in your local museum or zoo, let me know.
There is a company named Safari, that makes plastic replicas of all type of animals including insects look for them in better toy stores or musuems or zoo’s.
John
helicopters don’t fly, they beat the air into submission
By the way, what is this humor grasshopper project?
beav,
Thought no one would ask[:)]
I am a Star Trek fan and love the humor side of modeling (see some of the posts I have put up of Gavin Anderson’s work and you will understand). There was the episode with the Borg where Capt. Piccard is assimulated and leads the Borg against Earth.
Anyway, his Borg name was Locutas.
Now, a bit of local history. When the Mormons settled Utah, they had their crops attacked by swarms of locust (can you see where this is going) and were saved by seagulls taking advantage of the feast (Seagull is the State Bird). Anyway, the locusts have never forgotten this so they look towards their new leader to avenge them.
“I am Locust of Borg, you seagulls will be assimulated.”
Just need a decent sized grasshopper, an LED in one eye, some mechanical parts, tubes etc and presto (I hope).