Thanks for all your most excellent and humorous posts. All good stuff!
Steve - Plenty of water
Paul - I can't even see the excellent stuff you do!
Ian - Tough. Just bring plenty of sick bags.
Better start making some water for her to sit in......
So first off. 'The Departure'
Here is the start of the harbour entrance. I know in my minds eye what I'm after so I'm just going ahead and hope something stirs in the old grey matter.......
As always it's made from scrap polystyrene, I love this stuff. It's light, easy to cut and work into shapes, almost anything sticks to it - and it's free!
I'm building the harbour walls first. I came up with the idea of rather than having straight walls, and to make it a bit more interesting, I would incorporate a bend at the entrance.
As this will be a relatively modern harbour, I am going for concrete rather than stone for the walls.
Sometimes I get carried away with builds like this and forget to cut out the hole for the vessel first. - Not this time sweetheart!
I realise it's a narrow entrance (I've seen and navigated narrower!) but I had to make it so to hopefully make sure everything would be in the finished job pictures. As you can see, the base is made up of two pieces. The join will be hidden as the job progresses. I built up one side to add a bit of variety to the entrance.
We're off and running. I'm staring at the thing waiting for ideas to come along.......
"Hello Matron, yes it does look nice."
"What was that? Wow, that's a great idea. I'll stick some on now!"
"Hang on, why should I turn over, and that's not an artist's paint brush, it's a needle. Don't you come near m......ZZZZZZ