Custom, giant junkbots made from old car and truck parts

Marco sez, "My elementary and middle school friend Tom Samui from Switzerland makes these custom sculptures out of recycled car and motorcycle parts."

He and his team have been perfecting these sculptures over the last ten years. Once a month they go to a junk yard and cart away a truckload of old car and motorcycle parts. The pieces are cleaned and sorted by type; nothing is thrown away. All pieces are welded together, polished and varnished with special anti-rust lacquer. It takes about 400 hours of work to complete a large sculpture. The details and the quality of the work can be seen especially on the deer and the American Indian on the horse by clicking on the images (below).
Whether you have a drawing, a photo, a model, an idea; he can make almost any object in any size between 3 feet (1 meter) and 26 feet (8 meters). If the sculpture is smaller than 3 feet (1 meter) the minimum order is 20 pieces. The larger pieces can be taken apart into up to 10 pieces and can be transported to almost anywhere in the world. Production time for custom pieces is two to three months.

CUSTOM SCULPTURES

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Shades of Gibson’s “Count Zero”…all that’s missing is the chainsaw arms.
http://twitter.com/marcomahler Marco Mahler

Thank you, Boing Boing! Marco
http://about.me/yoetama yoetama

wow,
lesbianjesus

Check out the awesome metal horse in Whitehorse Yukon, actually pretty cool for scraps. The artist used stuff given to her by the public from all over the region.

http://www.daphnemennellyukonart.com/hor_metalsculptures.html
hadlockk

We have these in Texas, too. Except they’re chrome (in typical American fashion)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cathytx2001/257933001/
Richard

For more refined horses there’s

Deborah Butterfield
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Butterfield

I suppose this might be as close to animals as most of us get these days.
wygit

We have a gorgeous chrome horse that was commissioned by the builders of a Safeway here in Sacramento.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/icamargo/86105516/in/set-1029860/
I believe it was done around 2004. It was made from recycled car bumpers.
http://imcravingpresidency.tumblr.com/ SedanChair

Shrike deer.
http://twitter.com/webmonkees webmonkees

Much better recieved than their earlier car sculptures made out of junked horses.
Beanolini

varnished with special anti-rust lacquer

There’s a set of junk-metal goats round here that have rusted and become slightly overgrown over 20 years- they look fantastic.
David Costa

not sure if it was inspired by Marco’s sculpture, but this metal Darth Vader looks like it would fit right into his collection: https://twitpic.com/743jwx