TAFFY Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 I need to make some fairly realistick herring, I was thinking of making a mould then casting. I have researched casting fish but not too sure of the best way to do it, do I need to dry the fish first? Or just push one halfe into clay then cover with latex (or alginate or even plaster of paris) I was going cast in soft foam.Any help would be apriciated even a source of fake fish that may pass as herring. Or a completely different way of doing things! Thank youJon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerry davies Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 No bl00dy herring off Portmeirion, boyo. Try a little suspension of disbelief with some radioactive Mullett. The Irish Sea is full of the things thanks to Sellafield. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ynot Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 "Noises Off"? Seriously, as long as you have the right sort of size and colour, NOONE is going to notice that your fake fish is anything but what the cast SAY it is. But you could try Props4Shows...Or some of the same, maybe some different ones, at Terralec... Both found with a quick Google. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mar Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 Props4Shows and Terralec are the same company, but do have almost anything you could think of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulears Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 The trout with a bit of tweaking are the best match to Herring - Lowestoft used to be the centre of the Herring World - until we flogged off the trawlers, and I doubt anybody under 40 would even recognise one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oldradiohand Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 "Silver darlings" I believe they used to be called. Any vaguely fish shaped object painted silver (or covered in tinfoil) with a few black lines for the mouth, gills and eyes would probably be convincing enough... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin D Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 The trout with a bit of tweaking are the best match to Herring - Lowestoft used to be the centre of the Herring World - until we flogged off the trawlers, and I doubt anybody under 40 would even recognise one!Sorry to correct you Paul, but herring were caught by drifter' (and a lot smoked just up the road in GY). You are right that Low'stoft was the trawler capital but they caught fish near the bottom, so cod, plaice, turbot, whiting etc. How do I know? My big bruvver was a trawler skipper at LT for many years before it all went with the EC CFP. :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulears Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 Quite right, of course. The Lydia Eva - from Yarmouth is in the harbour down the road being scrubbed up - arrived the other day.http://eastcoastnet.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/100_1288.jpg So people know what we mean - and being pedantic, if we're talking drifters - then the correct pronunciation of the word is "Heron", as in "we got a fu cran of heron, boy" Outsiders must have wondered why boatd were cathing birds! http://www.suffolkheritagedirect.org.uk/imgs/tours/herring-fleet.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin D Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 You too of course are "quoit roit bo'y. She be bootiful". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TAFFY Posted October 16, 2012 Author Share Posted October 16, 2012 I do know any right sized/colour fish will do like the ones pointed out, I had allready done a props4shows search and found some. I just fancied casting some, and making a load of red ones just for the Halibut.You would be surprised what you can catch from portmeirion crabs o instance.Grate pictures Paul! Shame our harbours no longer look like that! I'd love to have seen Porthmadog harbour when it was full of proper ships! talking of sellafield maybe trawsfynydd lake will have some appropriate fish in... I apologies or any grammatical mistakes or wrong words as this machines likes changing words and I can't stop it. Also I was thinking today it would be un if I could make the tils move in a bucket..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ImagineerTom Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 You need some help casting this fake fish.... so essentially you're after a herring aid? I'll get my coat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TAFFY Posted October 16, 2012 Author Share Posted October 16, 2012 Oh for cods sake! I'm getting a haddock from the fishy puns! :) All puns are welcome please don't be shellfish, the world is your oyster!Also any casting tips would be very much apriciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbuckley Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 Our Production Manager has a task scheduled to pick up the fish today. And tomorrow. And the day after. You get the idea. The neighborhood cats are going to love us :) So just what is this suspension of disbelief stuff...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ynot Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 Oh for cods sake! I'm getting a haddock from the fishy puns! :) All puns are welcome please don't be shellfish, the world is your oyster!Also any casting tips would be very much apriciated.Kipper't a secret Weel you!!I dunno, carping on about this makes me shake so much I nearly fell off my perch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerry davies Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 I don't believe that you can catch anything off Portmeirion. That boat has been tied up outside the hotel and hasn't moved for donkey's years. Not a gudgeon in sight.See! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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