COVID times have meant watching a lot more shows and movies than we ever did in the past. Our two latest series have inspired our younger son to create miniature replicas.
We were excited each Friday to watch The Mandalorian, and we grew quite attached to The Child (baby Yoda). Our son set to work one day…
Now we’re hooked on Lost in Space, a captivating series on Netflix about a family trying to get to Alpha Centauri. We’ve tried not to binge-watch it, spacing the shows out over the days and weeks. They’re like our extended family right now since we can’t be with real humans!
This is the Jupiter ship the family has been on. Our son has to find all kinds of little bits and pieces of things in order to fashion the parts into what he wants to make. There’s a lot of finding, cutting, forming, painting, and imagination involved.
(from an episode when they’re trapped in ice) 
He uses a 3-D pen for elements he can’t form with objects by hand (the harpoon is from a particular episode)
Here are some past miniatures he documented on his camera…
His first miniatures ever from May – Captain America’s Wakandan shields 
One of Captain America’s Wakandan shields, this time in metal 
Captain America’s shield, which he made perfectly then decided to make it look battleworn 
Diagram from building Captain America’s shield 
A replica from news of riots 
Building Hulkbuster’s road wreck scene from Avengers: Age of Ultron 
3-D-pen-printed robot (it’s amazingly intricate) 
Beginning to build Iron Man 
Iron Man’s first suit of armor 
A basic shield 
A tar pit scene 
After making The Jupiter from Lost in Space look battleworn 
Boxes and boxes of metal, wood, and various collections of bits and pieces 
