Terry Pratchett - Awesome Discworld Birdbath. We hope Sir Terry would be proud!
Terry Pratchett inspired Discworld Birdbath made with Pal Tiya Premium - the MOSTversatile sculpting medium on the planet! www.paltiya.com
Failure is part of the process 💯. The only secret is not letting it stop the process.
Longer video version, fins are now permanently mounted.
We didn't really know how we were going to make the fins strong enough for kids to pull themselves up on, but figured we'd figure it out. Figures something would come up as we discussed retrofitting some bones.
We certainly could have just done a solid Pal Tiya rib down the fin but thought adding a bit of steel would enable a much stronger connection to the shell.
Had we made the rebar armature first and sculpted around it, we would have been stuck to the ridged gesture of the steel. Sometimes, retrofitting an armature is the best way to enable the most elegant look for a sculpture.
The underside of the fin was a card thin scratch coat layer since it was applied overhead. That made it really easy to smash a trench through to embed re-bar. Cling wrap held the Pal Tiya in place as we built wooden scaffolding and bedded the inside permanently.