The ‘remarkable’ process behind latest shark models at Australian Museum
Model makers Daniel Brown and Jason Kongchouy have shed light on how they make incredible shark designs and models.
Visitors can immerse themselves in an immersive shark exhibition at the Australian Museum.
Individuals will be able to go back in time to meet sharks’ ancient ancestors, come face-to-face with an 8m-long Whale Shark, and uncover their extraordinary adaptations with interactive displays, touchable specimens and objects from the AM collections.
Daniel Brown told Deborah Knight there are a variety of different processes to construct breathtaking designs.
“When the Museum asks us to build something they’re not concerned with how you get to the end, we’re not giving them 3D prints, they want a finished object and we go downstairs and say ‘right this is the right tool for the job’,” he said.
“You couldn’t have made some of them traditionally, there are a couple of processes now that have sorted through 3D printing.”
Mr Brown also added that to make the sharks look so life-like an amazing team of painters take over and create a “masterpiece”.
On average it takes about seven months to complete a model.
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