Doing Da Vinci and other great shows
I really enjoy watching shows that teach me about fabrication, it doesn’t really matter the project or the end goal, just showing how things go together is fascinating to me. While waiting for the second generation Mobile Crane to finish rendering, I found a fantastic show that puts the basic elements of construction as perfect as I have ever seen them. Doing DaVinci.
I watched it on YouTube so here you are, you can watch now this Doing DaVinci team puts together wood and metal using modern engineering to create a really cool machine that Leonardo Da Vinci designed centuries ago. This is great stuff!
Doing Da Vinci: Armored Tank Part 1 of 5
Doing Da Vinci: Armored Tank Part 2 of 5
Doing Da Vinci: Armored Tank Part 3 of 5
Doing Da Vinci: Armored Tank Part 4 of 5
Doing Da Vinci: Armored Tank Part 5 of 5
Other fantastic building shows that I enjoy!
- Orange County Choppers which showed the process involved with building custom motorcycles.
- Holmes on Homes featuring Mike Holmes fixing what other contractors and carpenters did so wrong.
- MegaStructures which shows how some of the largest things ever made by man are put together from start to finish
- This Old House and the New Yankee Workshop featuring Norm Abram (and originally, Bob Vila as host).
- Home Again with Bob Vila (I did a profile of Bob on LegendaryLife.com btw) which featured home improvements of all kinds.
Although there is some laser cut items in Doing Da Vinci, I would love to one day have my own show demonstrating how my designs go from start to finish but make them human sized instead of kid sized. I think it would be cool to actually build a lifesize version, out of wood and steel of my Zulu Main Battle Tank and stick an engine in there too or see just how strong some of my designs are when pushed to extremes.