Can you bend a boat?

[Emma.J]

I know this is going to sound very odd but is it possible to bend / deform a boat hull?
Just the external shell I'm not worried about what the fittings or floors are like or if it floats.
I haven't got a spare pirate ship to try this out on and to save pennies I thought I'd ask before buying a spare to demolish.

I had seen the other thread about getting klickies to bend at the knee and wondered if it would be possible to bend or deform the boat into a slightly different shape. Would heating work and would it take a lot to do it?

As you know I'm into Victorian PM and I'd love to build Jules Verne's Nautilus! But the hull is fish shaped, mind you I have no idea when I'd get the time to do it! 
It was one of those ideas that popped into my head one night so I've been thinking about how it could be done.

Any tips folks?

Thanks

[Martin Milner]

I'm trying to visualise in what direction you'd bend the ship to make a submarine, and I can't see any degree of bending making it work.


A possibility might be to take two ship hulls and after cutting the tops flat across, join them together to make a solid hull.

How big do you want the nautilus to be? Would it be easier to start with an existing sub like the 4473 sub and modify it, maybe spraypaint some of the clear plastic to make a solid hull?

[reylocann]

 
Emma-


Perhaps you could modify a humpback whale instead!!!  The Nautilus is very fishy looking!

Rey

[macgayver]

Should be doable

still think it demands a lot of practice to bend a whole schip

Like Martin suggested

Take two ship hulls and after cutting the tops flat across, join them together to make a solid hull. would be my reccomandation too

I once even started that custom but didnot finish it by lack of inspiration and time

I'm curious how your Nautilius would look like

wish you good luck and lot of fun

[Emma.J]

Hi Guys 
yes my plan was to put two ship hulls together one on top of the other. I was wondering if the hulls could be sort of pinched inwards to give more of the fish shape. I hadnt really looked at a sub the only one I'd seen was a small two man one.  I shall have to go and look at one.

The Whale is too small I think it would need to be  a ship hull so I can fit a couple of rooms inside it

As I said it's just an idea I that was floating around in my head, I'd love to do a set of Verne's inventions, I've already got ideas for the time machine which is easy, I'd love to do the Nautilus and the Mole? from journey to the centre of the earth. I've already mocked up hot air baloons and an early horseless carriage. But it will all have to wait I think till summer as I've still got a few projects to finish yet!

Thanks for your help 

[macgayver]

As I said it's just an idea I that was floating around in my head, I'd love to do a set of Verne's inventions, I've already got ideas for the time machine which is easy, I'd love to do the Nautilus and the Mole? from journey to the centre of the earth. I've already mocked up hot air baloons and an early horseless carriage. But it will all have to wait I think till summer as I've still got a few projects to finish yet!

Thanks for your help 

looks like we have similar projects in mind

[Richard]

Paco Alvarez, at the Spanish PlayClicks, actually built a Playmobil version of the Disney movie Nautilus using Playmobil components about five years ago. Click HERE!

see attachments for some of Paco's images

[WarriorOfToys]

I think I know how to make a giant fish head stick out of your ship with heat treatment...
If you made a model of a fish head,
super heated the front of your two ships,
then pushed the model from the inside of the ship to the super heated ship surface there would appear a fish head at the front of your ship.
Depending on how far you want to go you could stick the head out a bit from the ship...
Maybe even have fins.
But the plastic would be stretched rather thin...
Im not sure what you are trying to do exsacly,
But if you want a fish head at the front of your ship you could try that.

[Richard]

Paco Alvarez, at the Spanish PlayClicks, actually built the Disney movie Nautilus for Playmobil about five years ago. Click HERE!

Hmmm ... 

That was an "awkward' sentence ...

Paco didn't build his model of the Nautilus from the Disney movie "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" for Geobra, he built it for himself to use with his own Playmobil Klickys ... 



see attachment

[Gepetto]

Thanks for those pix and photos Richard!  The nautilus Paco made is very interesting, I like the way he used the ship's hull to increase the beam but it would seem very hard to build using only Playmobil. 



Gepetto