SHIP MODELING

Go to a craft store, you can buy bags of popsicle sticks and matchsticks for dirt cheap that you can do most of the frame with. Get some balsa wood for bigger sections or parts where you need to curve the wood, like the hull planks.

I used to make half meter big model ships in primary school with my teacher. If I recall correctly, we would use shit ton, an absolute shit ton of wood dust. Slightly larger bits worked the best I think. You'd mix that with a lot of wood glue I think.

Mind you, this was very long ago, so it might have been some other type of glue. I know the white glue wasn't visible afterwards.

Anyway, we'd build the inner support walls out of plywood. After you get the most basic shape, you pour that mix of wood dust and glue into the bottom side of the ship. It makes it relatively heavy, but it fucking floats on water.

You manually shape everything by hand and let it dry for a week.

The rest is just shit ton of detailed work on small pieces of wood and tiny amountsnof wood glue.