Treasure Chest and Pirate Swag!
I had some left over wood from a recent project, so I turned this chest out in an afternoon! It is made from plywood and stained with a dark mahogany. The lid is curved and from the outside it looks decent, but the gaps on the inside are shoddy at best, but no one but me is going to notice!
This is bare bones and I wish I would have spent some more time aging the outside or adding strips to mimic metal edging and pop rivets, but I can always set this aside to be “detailed” later 🙂 It’s missing some pearls and more rubies, but I’m sure I can pick some up at a garage sale for fairly cheap to give it more depth. It has a false bottom, so it looks fuller than it really is.
Now I have a monumental task of finishing some tombstones for the graveyard AND hopefully starting on working on my CANNONS! I’m thinking of using my Grandpa’s lathe to my advantage and making the cannon out of wood as well as the base. I want these babies to last almost as long as the real things! Still reading up on how to incorporate fog, lights, and sound, so until I’m comfortable with knowing how all of these work together this will be another project I probably only day dream about making!
What fun! Can’t wait to seem them cannons.
Word Verification: “Docked” – how appropriate for a pirate post.
Haha, I always get the most random word verifications! Yeah I really want to get the cannons started! Still scouring halloweenforum for some insight!