The finished snow ship
It doesn't look like much in the photos Raul posted, so here is the ship when it was done. People really liked it!
Mast of ice and cardboard tube, sails of cheesecloth, windows made of ice (poured into forms in Jesse's back yard) the rest is hard-packed snow, shoveled by bulldozers into two 8' square plywood boxes and left to sit a week or two until set into solid cubes. Jesse did most of the sculpting with a chain saw.
I loved how the final ship looked; the ethereal cheesecloth sails juxtaposed against the big solid blocky shapes of the ship made out of snow...
Until next time... adventure! (hopefully in slightly warmer weather...)
Mast of ice and cardboard tube, sails of cheesecloth, windows made of ice (poured into forms in Jesse's back yard) the rest is hard-packed snow, shoveled by bulldozers into two 8' square plywood boxes and left to sit a week or two until set into solid cubes. Jesse did most of the sculpting with a chain saw.
I loved how the final ship looked; the ethereal cheesecloth sails juxtaposed against the big solid blocky shapes of the ship made out of snow...
Until next time... adventure! (hopefully in slightly warmer weather...)
posted by Chrystene at 12:42 PM
2 Comments:
Wow, that looks awesome! "Ethereal" is exactly right -- it looks like a ghost ship.
Nice work on the photos too. Great stuff guys :)
Thanks Jeff! Raul actually dropped me off to take these pictures and was on his way to pick up groceries -- but it was -20 or so outside and I didn't even have long-johns -- after taking my glove off to take these few pictures for about 10 minutes my hand was so frozen I couldn't feel it and had to call him to come back just as he got to the grocery store. When I got back in the car my hand immediately began to throb, and it looked like a lobster claw, red and puffed up and scaly. After 10 minutes! So I am super lucky these pictures turned out at all.
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