Pirate Wreck/ Undersea theme 2016 (WIP)

A few more pics of the WIP, ordered some palms for a more tropical desert island feel for part of the 'entrance' which is from the back door and down the side of the house into the top level of the garden. (With the threat of it turning into some gardening program, it was a blank slate so rather than have to work too much around what was there I get to plan it out from scratch more or less.) Picked up some plastic barrel planters which I had to mask and spray brown as it will look better than usual plant pots, my brother was digging up some bushes from his garden so I nabbed them to just add some free greenery to break up the lines. Shifted a load of old iron slag rocks from the bottom of the garden (some of them were 'effing heavy!) to create rocky cave like parts to hide the pots a bit and ugly things like the drain. Added in some random little succulents here and there to fill in the gaps and add a little more green. Mainly this was done to take away from the straightness of the alley as part of the plan is to put a wooden boardwalk along to the steps so I wanted it to meander a little as if one were walking through a hidden cave. I want to hide the drainage pipes as best I can so added on a bit of netting for now, I'll probably get some hessian sacks and create some hanging moss, vines and seaweed for that.

I continued work on an anchor for decoration, made from an old broom stick and the curved part of an old chair, covered with tinfoil and sprayed brown with a black wash. (still need to add a hoop and chain at the top for that)

I started making a post for the wheel and attached it so it turns, need to attached handles at some point. Also I sorted another pallet for the deck.

Still a long way to go...

Whacked on a quick tester coat of some stain I got last year on sale for a quid, I think it has come up with a nice weathered look so far. (Looks a bit better now it has dried.) Planning to clad up that block wall with some more planks but make them looked splintered off at some point. Nothing is screwed or otherwise attached together yet so I can take it apart before then and fully stain everything to protect it from our horrendously wet climate and make it look a bit better in the meantime.. I think I'll need to add more stuff like seaweed, barnacles and moss in gaps to make it look properly rotted ghost ship.

Unfortunately due to work consuming all my time I've had to abandon doing outside again this year so can only do a last minute inside decoration.

Here's part of my wip window display ...still needs pirates and wheel..