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

[Merrilee Johnson]

What a great job you are doing and so creative!  Good luck with your 
"problem"  I'm sure you'll figure it out and there will be lots of help from 
the others here!
Merrilee


>From: Lloyd Skeoch <lskeoch at onramp.ca>
>Reply-To: "[Woodcarver]" <woodcarver at six.pairlist.net>
>To: woodcarver at six.pairlist.net
>Subject: [Woodcarver] Feeling a bit guilty about jumping in with a 
>question, Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 15:06:30 -0400
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>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.
>
>--
>Lloyd Skeoch
>Markham, Ontario
>mailto:lskeoch at onramp.ca
>http://www.angelfire.com/ny/lskeoch/index.html
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