We put wires in the little trailer. We're not sure what will go where yet for lights and pumps and things, so we just put in extra. It's ready for walls now.
The first studio work session. Nick and Greta snipping and gluing. We are making a Tiny Circus explanation animation for our first project. 
A still from the first animation.
James= Studio cat in training
New Studio Wall= Hung by Carlos, ready and waiting for large circus drawings and animations
The corn is knee high and the alfalfa is cut and baled and so Iowa is patterned with these stripes and polka dots. The lightning bugs arrived all-at-once, after a hot day, before a storm. 
Greta carried the pieces to the spray station.
John sprayed on finish - three coats on the back, two on the front. We will install the pieces then spray a final coat on the fronts. 
Carlos carried the pieces away, stacking them on shelves. Greta was standing ready with the next piece.
A stack of finished wood.
First we layed the templates onto new wood and traced the outline. The new pieces were cut roughly to shape on a bandsaw.
...and then fine-tuned with a belt sander...
...before drilling holes for rivets and sanding the surface with a hand sander. Then they went in a pile for a trip to Iowa City to spray on some finish.
The inside of the first small airstream is insulated and now looks like a room for robots. We are using thin birch plywood to cover the walls. Here, some templates from another project are temporarily held in place with to check the fit.
Nothing is square inside the space, we are making paper templates before we start cutting the plywood.
We stuck balls of masking tape on the ribs.
Then we used large sheets of construction paper to roughly fit the space.
... and tabs of paper taped to the larger sheet to fit the final dimensions.
The tape-y template is transferred to another sheet. Tomorrow we will transfer this to the plywood, cut and sand.
This is the golden horse out the studio window.
The two endcaps and windows, various aluminum bits, a truck full of insulation, junk and brown reclusive spiders from Arkansas.
The Arkansas trailer is getting thinner, just the top and rear end to finish it off.
David making a sturdy work table out of maple for the studio.
The studio coming together, with some new lights and the work-table.
We had several drills working at the rivet-removal, progress was quick. 
The old insulation was wet and full of animal homes.
The ribs of the beast exposed.
Thousands of rivets hold these trailers together, they are made like airplanes. Here, Greta is drilling them out so we can take the walls apart.
It's a trick to get the drill bit exactly in the center of each dome, then hold it steady while drilling.
After a bit, the head pops off.
This is the Arkansas trailer before we begin, full of spiders and dust. Also filled with: a shoe, a home-made baseball card, fish-hooks, carpet, an ant farm, a bottle of tequila with worm.
Here is the baby trailer mostly insulated. We stuck the insulation onto the foam spacers with construction adhesive and then used silver tape to seal up any gaps. It looks space-age.
The main work-room will be in a space that was used for extracting honey from beehives.
Look here: the circus-building grounds, the mothership, the garden, the horizon. The raw materials are moving to Grinnell, Iowa.
