My scratchbuilt trout...I mean cod

I have been wanting to get this piece done for quite some time! I had cut the pieces a long time ago and tried several times to get it put together...failing miserably each time.

I finally hit upon something that worked well for me. I glued center detail to the main piece at the top and then glued some spacers in under it to get the thickness that I wanted. Then I used caulking to make a barrier around the edges and then filled the middle up a little at a time with Elmer's Ultimate Glue (same thing as Gorilla Glue).

After all that I trimmed away the excess and bondo'd and puttied the edges around the detail piece. Cut the dent in with a knife and then filled it in with Bondo and smoothed it out.

I will add the 2 little vertical greeblies later...






Thanks for checking it out and comments are welcome and appreciated!

Also Thanks go out once again to WoF!!!

Whoa ... great jorb there! 2 questions for ya:

1) What did ya make it outta?
2) How thick is it? You said you carved out the dent, so it must be pretty thick there, ... no?

Originally Posted by Jimmy BufFETT

Whoa ... great jorb there! 2 questions for ya:

1) What did ya make it outta?
2) How thick is it? You said you carved out the dent, so it must be pretty thick there, ... no?

1) Same trasch cans as posted in the trash can armor method thread

2) so no it's not really that thick. The carving out part was because of the solidified expanding glue underneath the plastic.

Thanks for the input!

Dang! Looks very nice! Could we see some progress pics, please?

Ahh man I saw trout and thought I was on the Bass Masters forum. Fooled me again!

That looks really sweet!! I heard that the type of glue you used expands as it sets. It this what caused the mess?

Originally Posted by ArmoSpetsnaz

That looks really sweet!! I heard that the type of glue you used expands as it sets. It this what caused the mess?

Yeah, but I was counting on it expanding as I wanted it to fill in the space between the two pieces.

What I was not counting on was the glue seemed to push apart the caulking in some places like it wasn't even there. This had nothing to do with the expansion of the glue as I had just put it in at that time and it doesn't expand until it starts to cure.

And once some of the glue gets through you can add more caulking to try and seal the leak but it does'nt do much good as the glue has an almost greasy quality. New caulking wouldn't stick to the old.

That's really where the majority of the mess came from. However the glue both cuts and sands relatively easy so the worst part of the cleanup was getting all the caulking off.

I don't think I'm going to try and make another one of these anytime soon!

Just thought I would add a pic of the cod with most of the color on. Still need to add the yellow and black spatter...

Looks good so far! How did ya do the different shades of green / black?

Nice, looks great

Now with the yellow added...