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

[Mike Bloomquist]

Great start Lloyd, and doing the prototype is a great idea.  One of my
favorite Dennis Thornton carvings is a bipe pilot with a duck hitching a
ride on one of his wings.  His treatment of the spinning propeller might
help you out.

http://www.cca-carvers.org/thornton.html

Just MTCW, but I would extend the "swoop" on the very tip of each propeller
blade to extend all the way around the circle to the other tip (for
strength), and then pierce carve between swoops to open it up a bit.  I know
it takes a lot of nerve to propose improvements on the ideas of a CCA
member, but Dennis is the one CCA member I can claim as a friend before he
was CCA so I take liberties ;-).

Keep on Carvin'
-Mike B.->


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lloyd Skeoch" <lskeoch at onramp.ca>
To: <woodcarver at six.pairlist.net>
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 3:06 PM
Subject: [Woodcarver] Feeling a bit guilty about jumping in with a question,


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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
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