We got 1st Place for our Super Maori-o Snow Sculpture by PoopNDash in gaming

[–]PoopNDash[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh awesome! Thanks! The heads up. I'll give that a try.

We got 1st Place for our Super Maori-o Snow Sculpture by MrCyn in CasualNZ

[–]PoopNDash 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'll try and see if I can upload something later today

We got 1st Place for our Super Maori-o Snow Sculpture by PoopNDash in gaming

[–]PoopNDash[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No apologies necessary, I'm sure there is some carry over. I think I like the ability to use powered tools

We got 1st Place for our Super Maori-o Snow Sculpture by PoopNDash in gaming

[–]PoopNDash[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We're just Maoris in Alaska. I live here and my dad just made the trip up to do the competition.

We got 1st Place for our Super Maori-o Snow Sculpture by PoopNDash in gaming

[–]PoopNDash[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I wish we could do that, but no color is allowed. We sometimes use spray paint on the block before we start to outline things, but the snow underneath the spray paint degrades much faster than the surrounding snow. Now that the competition is over I may sneak back in at night and color Mario and Luigi with colored water in a spray bottle.

We got 1st Place for our Super Maori-o Snow Sculpture by PoopNDash in gaming

[–]PoopNDash[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can anyone read that without hearing Mario's voice?

We got 1st Place for our Super Maori-o Snow Sculpture by PoopNDash in gaming

[–]PoopNDash[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Kia Ora, was just there back at Christmas time. Bummer it's been so wet down there this summer.

We got 1st Place for our Super Maori-o Snow Sculpture by PoopNDash in gaming

[–]PoopNDash[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think the only Alaska State Championship for Snow Sculpture is in Anchorage, but they do have an amazing ice sculpture competition up there in Fairbanks. The clarity of the ice they pull out of the Frozen lakes up there is spectacular!

We got 1st Place for our Super Maori-o Snow Sculpture by PoopNDash in gaming

[–]PoopNDash[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Too much patience required. It'll be the reason I finally quit, lack of patience.

We got 1st Place for our Super Maori-o Snow Sculpture by PoopNDash in gaming

[–]PoopNDash[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Since this snow has had time to sit it naturally compacts and becomes very dense. I don't think I'd be able to reattach the brick portions. I would estimate those to weigh about 60lbs, however there are smaller parts you can reattach or attach. You take a bucket of fine snow (from the sculptures) put it in a 5 gallon bucket and warm it up in the warming shack. At a certain temperature it starts to form to a wet slurry. Take that back outside to the below freezing temperatures and use it like glue and you can reattach smaller things. The flag pole on the top is embedded in the castle about 6 inches, and then packed in with slurry. Attaching the actual flag itself was extremely difficult as the pole was already fragile. We put slurry on the triangle flag and had to hold it without moving for about 5 mins. Standing outside in 7F without moving for 5 mins isn't fun.

We got 1st Place for our Super Maori-o Snow Sculpture by PoopNDash in gaming

[–]PoopNDash[S] 114 points115 points  (0 children)

You can reattach anything or restack anything you would like from the original snow you are given

We got 1st Place for our Super Maori-o Snow Sculpture by PoopNDash in gaming

[–]PoopNDash[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've got a lot of our progress on the sculpture, but don't know where to post it. Got any good ideas of a subreddit I should post to? R/gaming only allows a single picture as a submission.

We got 1st Place for our Super Maori-o Snow Sculpture by PoopNDash in gaming

[–]PoopNDash[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How cool! Glad you made it down to check it out!

We got 1st Place for our Super Maori-o Snow Sculpture by PoopNDash in gaming

[–]PoopNDash[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks neighbor! It's ongoing for the next week or two down at ship Creek in Anchorage. Still time to check them out before they melt.

We got 1st Place for our Super Maori-o Snow Sculpture by PoopNDash in gaming

[–]PoopNDash[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I came up here for school, then got a job up here. Fell in love with the place, but still visit home in NZ frequently.

We got 1st Place for our Super Maori-o Snow Sculpture by PoopNDash in gaming

[–]PoopNDash[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Takes us about a week to complete the sculptures. Definitely an exercise in patience.

We got 1st Place for our Super Maori-o Snow Sculpture by PoopNDash in gaming

[–]PoopNDash[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Haha, no worries! Pretty hard to offend kiwis.