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Thanks Graven', Gits'. Much appreciated.

Well I have done something new, but image uploading is broken so no pics for you...

If you find my Mastodon account you can get a spoiler of what is to come.

Ok, uploads are working again.

Let's start with the finished article, wip below.

May I present to you all... a boat.


As seen in the game "Dredge".
I've not actually played much of it; a few in-game days.
But I get the idea that something like this could happen if you stay out in the dark for too long.

Here's some closer views, and a reference photo.


The idea being that they have hooked something a bit larger than anticipated, and it's going to swallow the boat.
But I wanted it subtle, so the teeth are just short of breaking the surface of the water.
And the whole patch of ocean is being pushed up by the rising beast and is just starting to spill out from the sides of the mouth and between the teeth.

The boat was made with a cardboard skeleton, with plastic pieces glued on that would allow me to skin the boat with plasticard.
I made the whole hull before I realised that half of it would be submerged, so I cut off the bottom half and glued it to the base-board (hardboard).

I then built up around it with polystyrene foam a rough shape of the water, and glued on flat cardboard shapes of teeth (roughly shark-shaped).
Then I covered the sea and teeth with tissue/PVA.

I then realised that it wasn't deep (or bulging) enough.

So I separated the polystyrene foam from the baseboard and packed in a load of loose polystyrene foam beads (as you get in beanbags) all coated in PVA.
That alone took a few days to dry.
Then I added plaster to get the finalised shape of the water.

Finishing off the top of the boat, I added a fishing rod and that includes the fishing line down into the water:
To do this I glued some of that rigging line I have (stretchy thin plastic "string") to the rod, and the other end to the middle of a length of old jewellery saw blade.
The saw blade was thin enough and stiff enough to poke through a hole in the "water" and through a drilled hole in the baseboard.
Taking the fishing line with it, a few twists underneath (to add tension to the line) and it was glued in place (cutting off the excess saw blade).



With that, I painted it all.
Then added some hot glue around the teeth to give a semi-translucent region about them and fill out the dips.
Then covered the whole thing in water effect gel.
Multiple times, waiting a long time between layers.
Eventually it all cured and I added the white "breaking water" details.

And that's it.