[Woodcarver] Feeling a bit guilty about jumping in with a question,

[Lloyd Skeoch]

when I have been mostly lurking big time, but since I only seem to get
to a carving about every 6 months, I really don't have much to offer, so
I hope noone minds.

I am doing a carving for a good friend who is really enjoys flying and
fishing, so I am doing a carving of fishing on the fly.

It has my friend in a sopwith camel, with a fishing line running from it
into the water.  I have two challenges, and wondering if anyone can
point to some suggestions.  One, how to carve the water surface, and the
other is how to create the appearance of the propeller in motion.

I have the first part of the carving done, and if you want to get an
idea of what I am talking about you can see it here
http://www.angelfire.com/ny/lskeoch/prototype.html

The black squiggly line is the fishing line going from the plane into
the water.  The base with the words some many fish, so little time will
be the water.  I'm wondering how to texture the water...not looking for
big waves or anything, and I plan to have a kind of wake running away
from where the line enters the water.  If anyone has any suggestions, or
can point me to some examples, I sure would appreciate it.

On the question of the propeller, I have carved a couple of mockups, one
being just a propeller, the other being a complete circle, where I have
carved the propeller into it, and then kinda faded it around to the
other side of the prop with the idea of using shading of the paint to
suggest motion.  The problem with that is it blocks out the front of the
plane.  Another thought I had was to perhaps try to glue the basic prop
onto an acrylic disc, and use a little paint to hint at a spinning prop
but still be able to see through it a bit.  Anyone tried that, or have
any thoughts.

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Lloyd Skeoch
Markham, Ontario
mailto:lskeoch at onramp.ca
http://www.angelfire.com/ny/lskeoch/index.html