Pakistani sculptor turns scrap into colossal metal artworks

The 35-year-old sculptor's studio brims with cogs, chains, hubcaps and engine parts as his hulking creations -- a lion with a mane of twisted steel, a giant Tyrannosaurus rex and a towering Optimus Prime -- take shape. "I have always been fascinated by metal objects," Jadoon told AFP after assembling the 14-foot (4-metre) "Transformers" character, his biggest creation yet. "When I see metals in scrap, I imagine forms in which it could be utilised." It took Jadoon and his team months of welding and warping to fashion his Optimus Prime...