Making Nessie
step-by-step photos (look out for the last one where she is peeping out of the truck!)
Nessie at home in the Clansman Hotel shop.
3D CAD concept model made first
The owner wanted the sculpture to resemble this toy
CAD model superimposed over the shopfitters plan
3D CAD model used for visuals
CAD model converted into assembly visual of the armature / frame
CAD model converted to DXF for CNC cutting
Retail Display Systems in East Kilbride machined and assembled the frame
Trimming out weight and covering in mesh
Fibreglass and plaster scrim to create the form
Building up the form in layers of plaster
First layers on and progress photo (good job the roof comes off the VW!)
Getting closer to the final shape
Features and more smoothing out of the plaster
Casting and shaping plaster rings to cover the base fixings
Starting the painting
4 coats of finish over 2 base coats
Who you looking at!
Adding splashes!
Nessie getting ready to travel
Out of self-isolation!
Paul drove to Inverness from Grangemouth with her peeping out!
Made the papers!