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The Big Ice Cream and Fruit

Lily
Age 7Edinburgh, UK

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Euan Buckley has been working on making this idea real.
Final Model
Posted by Euan Buckley

I added the base to the bottom to secure the model and put all of the pieces together to give the final shape of an open ice cream shop.

Second half of final model
Posted by Euan Buckley

I have made the second half of the invention similarly to the first. I made the box and covered the flooring in the tissue paper. I then used a vinyl I made in illustrator for the logo on the back wall to give it a bit more colour and make it look more interesting. I also added a little ice cream neon sign on the side to add a bit of light into the model and make it seem a bit cooler. I made the tables out of the same clay as the ice cream along with lollipop sticks for the stands. I then made the seats from some old corks that I had spray painted white to make them seem like little stools. I also made the trees out of dyed art straws and green tissue paper to give it that loose leaf look.

Beginning final model
Posted by Euan Buckley

I started by making the first half of the ice cream and fruit invention with it looking almost like an ice cream shop mixed with Willy wonkas factory. I made a counter and then modelled some piles of ice cream out of clay and painted them to make them seem a bit more realistic and added a hot glue border to make it seem a bit neater. I then made the ice cream machine and covered it in tin foil to create the metallic futuristic type look. I then connected the machine to the ice cream with silicone tubing filled with coloured piping gel to give the look that the machine is pumping ice cream into the counter ready to be eaten.

Poster development
Posted by Euan Buckley

I have started making ideas for the poster, my first idea was a bit off with the scale as it wasn’t clear how big the invention was compared to the fruit, I also didn’t like the way the render  looked on the poster and thought it would be a good idea to look at different options for that. In the final poster I have changed the text to a pink handwritten font as it made it seem more fun and also fixed the scale of the fruit so that it actually seems as if the fruit would be going into the machine

Development
Posted by Euan Buckley

I have began starting to model the invention on cad and render it so I can see how the final design would look completed, seeing the final box made me think I wanted it to be a bit more exciting. So I was thinking about possibly having the invention be able to open to see the interior

Concept stage
Posted by Euan Buckley

I began by doing a few initial sketches and then moved on to a model to give myself an idea on how I would go around making the actual invention