Well, here we go again.
It was time to do another tall ship, and wanting to a project with some Maritime flavour I settled on an old slice of PEI folklore - the Ghost Ship of the Northumberland Strait. According to legend she's a three (or four) masted ship with her sails aflame, foretelling a storm from the northeast.
The ship is a 1/350 scale model of the Cutty Sark that I modified with cloth sails, lit up with cannibalized tea lights wrapped in painted cotton for flame and smoke, and set her on a sea made from TP. At first glance I thought I'd gone overboard with the smoke, but when the fires are lit it works. Gonna be a good display piece for a dark and stormy night:
Here's a song by Lennie Gallant that wasn't necessarily the inspiration for this project, but it was ever-present in it's creation: