Wire Art - Chicken Wire Viking Ship for Intermediates | Spiral Crafts

You can make a multimedia Viking Ship with Sail by following this series of three DIY step by step photo tutorials.
It's perfect for a garden decoration (although best to roll the sail up on windy days!) and would look great sailing through a sea of grasses or ground hugging plants.
These tutorials are recommended for INTERMEDIATE sculptors who have made chicken wire structures before and only require high level instruction.
TOP TIP - Remember to trim the end wires from your sheets of chicken wire.
CREATOR NOTE: I've used paper to explain some of the construction as it was difficult to see the shapes required using chicken wire. I tried really hard but was unable to get the quality of photograph I wanted (partly I think because chicken wire is 90% holes!)
Tutorial #1 will show you how to make the body of the Viking Ship, tutorial #2 the shields and tutorial #3 the sail, mast and supports.
This is Tutorial #1
Tutorial #2 is here: • Wire Art DIY - Chicken...
Tutorial #3 is here: • Wire Art DIY - Chicken...
This tutorial would get extremely long if I showed the complete end to end process, but if you have any questions then please comment below and I will answer.
Tools (for the ENTIRE project):
• Round nosed pliers
• Flat nosed pliers
• Tape measure
• Tinsnips
• Heavy duty wire cutters
• Pinking shears
• Dark fabric pencil
• Ruler
Materials (for the ENTIRE project):
• Chicken wire 13mm hole (sheets - 1 x 29hex/12hex and 2 x 29hex/23hex, end wires trimmed off)
• Stainless steel galvanised wire, 1mm diameter (approx 58cm)
• Stainless steel galvanised wire, 0.7mm diameter
• Aluminium wire 2mm diameter (Do not cut from reel. 6 shields to make so at least 3m in length approx, maybe more)
• Hollow Steel rod/tube - 1m long and 1.2cm diameter (Plastic could be used but this rod is pushed into the ground so would need to be strong)
• Wooden dowl/round length - 900cm long and 9mm diameter (2 x 41cm metal/plastic rods would also work)
• Fabric - red and white stripes, 38cm wide and 50cm tall
• Fabric mesh to glue seams of sail - this can also be sown if you want to do that
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