Michigan Cichlid Association

General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Steve on May 13, 2013, 12:10:32 AM

Title: Little side project for the office build
Post by: Steve on May 13, 2013, 12:10:32 AM

I made this for the new office build and thought you guys might enjoy seeing it. Last week while at my cabin on a fishing trip I was picking up some of the downed trees and limbs that came down over the winter when I noticed a pretty cool looking dried out stump. When I see things like that I get all sorts of thoughts of things to make out of it swimming around in my head so I tossed it in the trunk before we headed back home. I ended up making this out of it. Basic idea of what I did was I made the base out of carved foam and then drylock coated it gray, glued some river rocks and branches, leaves and various things to make it look like a river log jam. Mounted the stump and then varnished and minwax clear urethane coated it. Mounted a 13" Rainbow trout fiberglass repo mount (from bass pro shops) and put a streamer with line in its mouth. Came out pretty cool and fits right in with the new office theme.

(http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/5695/trout1.jpg)

(http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/219/trout2.jpg)

(http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/921/trout3.jpg)

Title: Re: Little side project for the office build
Post by: Crfish on May 13, 2013, 12:18:28 AM

That is awesome! Nice work Steve!

Title: Re: Little side project for the office build
Post by: Regalblue on May 13, 2013, 01:25:08 AM

Pretty cool, should fit in the office perfectly

Title: Re: Little side project for the office build
Post by: four_by_ken on May 13, 2013, 07:45:10 AM

Nice work once again!

Title: Re: Little side project for the office build
Post by: jcunningham0295 on May 13, 2013, 08:37:31 AM

Looks really nice Steve.  Great addition to your office.

Title: Re: Little side project for the office build
Post by: Maize-N-Blue-D on May 13, 2013, 10:12:09 AM

I must say you are one of the more creative people I've seen.  Cudos !

Title: Re: Little side project for the office build
Post by: RichE on May 13, 2013, 07:53:58 PM

That is awesome and it all came from a stump you found.

When ever you are bored My fish room will need some decorations ;D