My Foam Journey 2.0
Wooden Dock
The next step was to add a dock going into the water. I had lots of coffee stirrers left over from my sons project last year. This meant I didn’t need to pick anything up, which is always a bonus.
A fairly simple process, the photos below pretty much tell you everything you need to know. The main piece of advice I could give is to cut at differing lengths and offset each piece giving a more natural look.
I needed the first piece to have an inch high so I added some legs to the one side, the other would sit on the foam.
I made some smaller pieces too, this meant I could extend the dock into the water. Keeping them separate also means I can use them in differing configurations.
Lastly I painted them, I gave the whole thing a coat of Scourched brown watering down at different consistencies to give a quick watered look to the wood.
A very nice effect reminds me of those kinds of heavy wooden timbers that end up getting covered in green vegetation just above the waterline.