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My name's Steve Backshall and this is Deadly Art.

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I'm lucky enough to travel the world tracking deadly animals.

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In this show, my team of artists take my killer moment...

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..and turn it into art.

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'And we'll reveal another unique creation.

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'Along the way, you'll get to pick up some tips, tricks and techniques

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'so you can make some art yourself.

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'This is no ordinary art show. This is Deadly Art.

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'Coming up on Deadly Art,

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'I meet a group of predators with a sting in their tail.'

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(We have got to be careful how we move.

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(The last thing we want to do is get these angry.)

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'The deadly artists ink up a brilliant work of art.'

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Wow!

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'And you can get creative, too.'

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Today's stinging beastie

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is probably the most deadly insect found in Britain.

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This is the largest member of the wasp family we have here.

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It's the hornet.

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'A hornet's sting can hurt something that's my size,

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'so imagine how much damage it can do

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'to something thousands of times smaller.'

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With a body that can be 3.5 centimetres long

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and massive munching mandibles,

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sometimes it doesn't even need to use its sting,

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it will just tear its prey apart using its mouthparts.

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Hornets are one animal you just don't want to make angry

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because they have an awful lot of friends, too.

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'Time to meet our friends in the Deadly Art gallery.'

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Hey. I'm Mike. I'm a cartoon artist.

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And I'm up for today's Deadly Art.

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I'm Nicola. I'm a power tool queen.

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'Mike and Nicola will be representing the Deadly Art team

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'who are always up for a challenge.'

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And here are some killer moments to inspire them.

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'Hornets build good-sized hives

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'and may have as many as 1,000 living in them.

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'But they actually go on the rampage attacking other insects.

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'Sometimes, this could be bees

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'living in hives with tens of thousands of individuals.

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'And a hornet might kill every single one of them.

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'Stealing their grubs and taking them back to feed their young.'

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We'll represent the hornet as a predator in its environment.

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Especially in a swarm.

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So let's make sure our hornets are larger than life.

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Let's include the nest because they protect that so fiercely.

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-All right. Let's do it!

-'Time for some more Deadly Art.'

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We've decided to create a huge print of a swarm of hornets.

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I'm going to draw the biggest hornet right here,

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really large, in the frame, with it swings stretched across.

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Then a trail of hornets getting smaller as they get further away.

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Perfect. This would make a great spot for the nest.

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Maybe hanging on a branch as it comes across into the foreground.

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-Love it.

-Let's do it!

-OK.

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'While Mike and Nicola get on with their hornet picture,

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'the Deadly 60 crew and I heard about a nest of hornets in a roof.

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'We had to investigate.'

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-HE WHISPERS:

-Right, then. They're just through here,

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in this corner here.

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So if I go in, then you just put your head around the corner.

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We've got to be really, really careful how we move

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because the last thing we want to do is get these angry.

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That would be very bad news up here.

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Just next to me here,...

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..this exquisite structure,

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which looks very much like a sort of partially-deflated beach ball,

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is actually the nest of our largest species of wasp.

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They are hornets.

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The reason that we're moving very slowly

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and trying to keep quiet

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is that these can actually be quite dangerous.

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They're very, very large.

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From the tip of their abdomen, that is the back of their tail,

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to their head, can be as big as my thumb.

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They have an extremely painful sting.

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If they feel their nest is under threat, they'll use it.

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'Join us later to see if we survived

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'our hornet encounter without being stung.

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'Let's see how Nicola and Mike are getting on.'

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We've finished our drawing.

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This large piece of MDF is going to become the base plate for our print.

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Just like potato printing,

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we're going to take away all the areas that we don't need.

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Our print is huge. Instead of putting the print onto the paper,

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we're going to put the paper onto the print.

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Now, just like the potato print,

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we need to chip away all the bits that we don't need.

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That looks like fun.

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Here's a tool. Let's get chipping.

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'Such an interesting technique.

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'Perfect for carving those hornet stripes.

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'Even though there's a lot to do,

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'Mike's all ready for today's Deadly Doodle.'

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I'm going to show you how to draw this angry hornet.

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We'll start with a circle in the middle of the page for the body.

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And on top of that, we're going to draw a heart for the head.

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Inside the heart, draw a circle for one eye

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and a C on the other side of the heart for the other eye.

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Draw in where the antenna are going to go.

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Now we're going to draw a horn shape coming off that circle,

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wrapping around to the bottom.

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This is for the rest of the body.

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Draw three lines for the wings, just to mark out where they go.

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Same on the other side.

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Now, for the legs, just draw zigzag shapes.

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One here, one here.

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Two legs on the other side.

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They come out right here and here. That's your pencil sketch done.

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Move on to the markers, add in the details.

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We're going to make our hornet look really angry.

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We're going to draw a W in the middle of our heart,

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come around and finish off his head.

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Draw in the eye. Make sure it's bugging out.

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Then add a highlight in the middle of his eye there.

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Wrap around, finishing off the bottom of that heart.

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And then we'll just thicken up those antennae.

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Now we'll start the legs. Go back over those lines,

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this time we're going to add in joints.

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They really make the legs look like insect legs.

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Just two little legs on the other side of the body.

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Now we're going to start the wings.

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Go back over those three lines.

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This time, we're going to close them off at the end

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by drawing in those two lines.

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If you add a few zigzag lines inside the wings,

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it looks like they're buzzing.

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Same again on the other side. Zigzag line.

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Now we're going to go back over the body.

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But this time, we're going to add a little bit of fuzz to it.

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Go back over the horn.

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Ending in that point.

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Now add in some stripes.

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Curving around the body.

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Now you can colour in the stripes.

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Add some black lines in here

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and colour in the stinger.

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To emphasise that it's really deadly,

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I'm going to add a few little lines coming out.

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Ouch!

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-How's that for a deadly hornet?

-'Mean-looking hornet.

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'Time to see your hornets now.

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'We went to Swindon on a Deadly Day Out.

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'And here's how some of you got on in the Deadly Art tent.'

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ALL: Deadly!

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BOTH: Deadly!

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I really enjoyed doing the drawing of the Deadly Doodle.

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I'm very happy with my doodle that I drew today.

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'Well done, you lot. Keep on doodling.

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'Let's get to the Deadly Art studio

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'and the base plate for the massive ink print is coming together.'

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We've chipped away the areas we don't need,

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apart from this larger area all the way around the outside.

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So it's power tool time.

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'Remember, our artists are trained professionals.

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'Don't try this at home.

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'While Mike and Nicola carry on,

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'let's get back to my visit to a hornet's nest.

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'And I was trying my best not to make them angry.'

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Hornets are amazing predators.

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They'll catch almost any small insect on the wing

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and devour it using their powerful mandibles.

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If it's large enough to need it, it'll paralyse it,

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using their sting.

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And if it hurts me,

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then any small insect is going to be instantly paralysed.

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-BUZZING

-Ooo! Oh, dear.

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Uh-oh.

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Right. Now is when we have to bid our retreat.

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Because once they're in the air like this,

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is when they're really angry.

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And, er,...

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if you get stung by one,

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they release a kind of pheromone,

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a chemical scent,

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which makes all the others attack.

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So now is the time to leave.

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-I think it is time to leave.

-OK. He's going for your camera, Mark.

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All right. I might just...I can't turn the light off.

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Oh, he's by my trouser leg.

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'Luckily, we escaped sting-free. Just about.

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'But now, Nicola has got a DIY

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'that I bet you'll want to have a go at making.'

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Check out these cool hornet wings,

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complete with stripy straps, just like the hornet's body.

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I think I might just keep them on.

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To make the wings, you'll need 12 coat hangers.

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Take six of them for the first wing

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and cut the hook off five of them and leave one remaining.

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Lay them out on a flat surface

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to create the skeleton of the first wing.

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You can lay them out anywhere you like.

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I'm going to use these cable ties.

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You can get them from any hardware store.

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Alternatively, use string.

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Fix one on every single joint.

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When your skeleton is fixed into position, snip off the excess.

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'Take care when you use scissors.'

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There you have your finished skeleton.

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Now you're ready to create the membrane.

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Take a big piece of fabric, any fabric you like,

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and ensure that your fabric is bigger than the skeleton itself.

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For this one, I'm using some shiny silvery fabric

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to reflect the colour of the hornet's wing

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and then I'm laying over the top this netty fabric

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to give it some really interesting texture.

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Lay that upside down over the top of your skeleton.

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Now glue it into position.

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You can use craft glue. It'll just take a bit longer to dry.

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And there you have it.

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Flip it over.

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And trim of all the excess fabric. All the way around the edge.

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There it is. Your first wing finished. Doesn't it look great?

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But it will look even better when you have two of them.

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Now you're ready to make this section of the wings.

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So take an old rucksack.

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Not a new one. We don't want you getting in trouble.

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And cut off the front panel, just like that.

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This is the section we need, the back part with the straps included.

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I've used some coloured tape

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to simply wrap around to add on my hornet stripes.

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At the top, on this side,

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make a small hole and four more down here.

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Just like that.

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When you position the wings,

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you want the coat hangers facing downwards.

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I've also made two holes in the wing

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that match up perfectly with the two on the bag.

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To fix those into position, just use some more cable ties.

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And your hornet wings are ready to go.

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Time for me to buzz off.

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'What wonderful wings!

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'Make your own at home. But don't sting anyone.

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'Back to the big art.'

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I'm using this oil-based ink to colour the areas of the plate

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we want to appear on our final print.

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'Nicola and Mike are going to press a huge piece of white paper

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'up against their board to create a print.'

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Let's rock and roll.

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'That's it. They've finished.'

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Ready, Mike? The moment of truth.

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Wow! It looks amazing!

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-It's so bold and striking!

-That's beautiful.

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Now all it needs is yellow paint to really bring that hornet to life.

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Stunning.

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'So it's nearly time for the big reveal.

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'I asked the Deadly Art team to recreate these killer shots

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'and turn them into art.

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'Let's take a look at the finished result.

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'I love the simplicity of this picture.

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'The black-and-white image is so striking,

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'but of course, the vibrant yellow really screams warning.

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'This insect means business.

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'And of course, I like the swarm, but I love the huge hornet

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'leading the others on their deadly mission. It tells a real story.

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'This image is just great.

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'It's kind of like a living cartoon.

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'You can almost imagine these insects coming to life

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'and flying off the canvas.

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'Nice work, team. Art doesn't get any deadlier than this.'

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That was a truly sublime work of art.

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Make sure you try the Doodle and the DIY

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and we'll see you next time for more Deadly Art.

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