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Final hanging! project finished.

This top photos is only first so that its the thumbnail. Below you can see the frame i made while i was screwing the hooks in. I couldn't...

finishing touches

All that was left to do now was glue and hang my boats. I glues them with a 2 part epoxy which is really strong and also horrendous to...

Drilling for victory.

Heres all the boats soldered and patinated on my workbench at home ready for me to drill a tiny 1mm hole in each end to thread the...

Life is getting quite exciting

I put all of my boats in the kiln with glaze on at the same time which sounds like a proverb or something. I don't know, it wasn't really...

Getting Busy

So all of my final boats besides a few which i will have to discard have now been fired so i need to glaze them and also make templates...

Untitled (Real boat glaze tests).

some of my real boat casts are not up to standard because they have walls that are too thin or big air pockets in the rim of the boats...

Introducing: Metal

So once I'd made my good moulds and got those working it was time to just blast out as many casts as possible, and to make the cabins and...

Glaze tests.

so those glaze test boats i made have come out the kiln and I've learned a good deal of fun facts. from left to right is: 1 coat, 2 coats...

My moulds are now good.

So after the fiasco that was my first set of moulds I made a new set and then also modified my first set so that they would not be...

My moulds are *not good*

I've now realised that patching up holes in the side of the boat is a horrible idea and id be much better off to cast the hull and deck...

I made some moulds.

I made some moulds. I had to change my plan from putting the pour hole in the top to the side because if I did the top there would be...

glaze test boats

so its going to take ages to get my really nice moulds sorted and while my 3D prints were at home i decided to make a quick shabby boat...

Night sanding deserves a quiet night.

So after I'd made the CAD models you saw in the previous post I needed to convert them from being entirely virtual to real physical...

Fisherman

I've also been toying with the idea of making figures to inhabit the boats, and seeing as i need to make at least something out of metal...

Origami continued

After making the CAD model in my previous post I created scale drawings from the faces of that model so that I could accurately transfer...

Virtual sailing

I like how the boats Ive produced so far have been going, however for the final show i want to produce a lot of them which realistically...

Origami

Along side making the clay boats I wanted to experiment with making paper boats using origami. These origami boats add another layer of...

Initial slab boats

Initially I set out thinking about the sea and erosion for this project, and when thinking about the sea its impossible not to think...

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