Cary Grant's character is mistaken for a spy and pursued throughout the movie by a mysterious group of people whose plan it is to thwart Grant's interference with their attempt to smuggle microfilm out of the country that contains U.S. government secrets. The most memorable scene of the movie, when Grant is chased by a crop-dusting plane, was used for this spider. In reality, there were two planes used in this sequence. Did you know? The plane that chases Grant is a Naval Aircraft Factory N3N Canary, a World War II Navy pilot trainer sometimes converted for crop-dusting; the plane that hits the truck and explodes is a wartime Stearman (Boeing Model 75) trainer.More Shrinky-Dink, and three times was a charm with the tiny silhouette of Cary Grant running from the crop-dusting plane. To keep the spider looking archaic, I used gold paint and green patina on the already brassy plane. I used copper mesh for the flag behind the plane and oxidized the metal with my mini-torch. I used metal letters (I'm not into scrap-booking, but there are a lot of very usable scrap book findings that can be used for other projects...like this one) for the title.
Materials: brass plane pendant, copper mesh, scrap-booking metal letters, head pin, Shrinky-Dink plastic, gold and blue bugle beads, amber seed beads, blue E beads, rusted wire