Think I can't help?

"I see a bar of soap and a knife. So what you going to make out of that?"
Me- "A model".
"Of What?"
"I don't know. What do you want to head for? Something cute? or something useful?"
"Something useful"

OK...Going to create a new design and it has to be useful. So what is useful that's about the size of a bar of soap. How big is that bar? How many do you have? You have 3. Great! We can do all sorts of things with that.

Take 2 of them, wet them and screw them together so that they bond together. Now you have a block.

So how about an incense burner? OK, well you don't want just one incense burner. Right? You want a series. So what kind of theme shall we go by? Cute animals? Houses? Birdhouses? Slot machines? Maybe even varieties of trees? Oh, I've got an idea, how about a computer?

How about a base that looks like a desk top? And maybe a permanent part of the design that looks like either the tower or the monitor and the other is the dome over the incense. Oh, I know....let's do a base that is the top of a desk with the tower on one side that's a permanent part of the foundation and we'll design the monitor separately so that it's the dome that sits over the incense. So first we'll take the one bar of soap and carve it down almost flat.

Not too thin. We need it to be small but strong. Hydrostone is strong enough for an incense burner so I think we'll make it out of that.

So now we'll take a saw and saw those other two bars in half. We'll use one half to form the tower. Carve it down to fit on one half of our base. The other half we'll form the monitor.

You can use an X-acto blade or a small kitchen knife for carving. Maybe even wood carving tools. Whatever you have. Once it's almost done, the shape is all there, you could take a small sponge to smooth it out.


How about I come back later and actually go through exact, step by step, on how to make of mold of it, how to reproduce it and the best part....how to paint and finish the piece so that it's appealing cute and sellable? :)