Raymond George Box is a simple man, but he has a big talent. His friends call him RG Box, and he is an artist. He is making a giant metal road runner sculpture. Box named him Rowdy.

"He said how big can you make it? And I said how big do you want it?" Box said.

The sculpture took one thousand hours to make, has one thousand hand crafted feathers, and weighs one thousand pounds. The road runner is six feet tall and ten feet long. 

"A lot of sketches, a lot of photographs, a lot of work. A lot of fun," Box said.

Box built rowdy for the University of Texas at San Antonio. Their mascot is the road runner. Rowdy will make his debut at a football game.

"UTSA is playing Oklahoma State on Saturday the seventh of September," Box said. "That's when they'll all be there. I don't know how many thousand people will be there."

The building process was long. He started by taking a picture of a road runner in his front yard.

"I took a picture of a road runner. Had it blown up to twelve inches tall and two foot long. And put it on an overhead projector and threw it on the wall. And backed the projector up until it was six foot tall. Then, I cut a piece of paper with the outline of that wall picture. Then, I made what I call the back bone of the road runner," Box said.

Then, he started the blacksmith work. 

"They're all cut out individually, and then hammered to get this texture on them one at a time," Box said.

He loves making new things, from a rose to a hip replacement.

He even made a sculpture for Willy Nelson's tour bus, the Honeysuckle Rose.

Right now, Box is working on a Candleabra for Saint Elizabeth's Catholic Church in Lubbock.

Knowing that a sculpture that is about to be the pride of UTSA came from the heart of Lubbock, makes him feel proud.

"Oh wonderful. Really wonderful," he said. "I don't know when I've been so excited. And I don't know when I've ever had this much fun. I've worked all my life. But this is fun."