Effects.

Johnsons baby powder stopped the milliput sticking on to the armature. A good dyscovery.

I lathed out the perpiscope in one piece, I really like it.

I experimented with painting really thick black paint and dusting with brass powder and polishing it back or stippling on brass resign. I chose the brass resign effect. I think this was a success.

I tryed out different fabrics including leather, but I think plain calico (with out tea stains) worked best.

The over all efect was great, although not finished.

Brass

I was not sure weather to use real brass strip or painted styrene. Styrene would be hard to paint ontop of the wood. And the paint would crack if painted and then bent. So brass strip would have been used.

I vac formed marbles for the porthole glass.

beads were used for holding in the sails.

Portholes, fins and balls.

A polystyrene ball was used covered in vasalene to smooth out the carbody filler on the inside of the head. This was a great tecnique.

Above you can see the big difference between the porthole with the rivet holes made on the pillar drill (with rhyno drawings used to show where the holes go) and the ones done on the mill.

The fins where drawn in Rhyno then printed out. I used these print outs to then draw art novou swirls on. I then imported these into illustrator and drew ontop of those. The etchings were a great success.

The head posed a couple of problems. The origonal head was too large for the body and had to be sculpted again. Using milliput for the lip was a great success as this kept the wood in place.

The sculpy stuck better to the milliput armature by scoring into it with a sculple.

I had massive problems trying to hammer the wooden planking into the scuply head. It simply kept craking and falling off. I filled the gaps with milliput and hammered them in for a second time.