Over the last couple weeks, I’ve been making a big push to get the Monterey Salmon Boat model and diorama done. A couple months ago, I was in contact with Tim Thomas at the Japanese American Citizens League Heritage Hall and Museum in Monterey, and they are having a special event that they wanted to have the model for. So, that lit a fire under me to get the model done.
The first thing was to get the beach done. As you may recall from my previous post, I started off with an MDF (Medium Density Fiber) board with pink insulation foam glued on top of that. I carved the foam to get the basic slope of the beach. I also carved out space for the launch ways, so that it would be partly buried under the beach sand. Continue reading