D_Rogue Game Art Project

T he very first model I began to create at the start of the project, back in Autumn 2018, was the bow mast of the  F/V  Scully.  This was created using very little detailed reference; mostly from photographs (much like the rest of my work in the project). Since then, I have come a long way in my modelling skills and decided to take on creating one of the last large pieces of gear attached to the bow mast. The picking boom. This acts like a giant winch that hoists up crab pots onto the deck. After the coiling block has brought up a pot from the sea floor to the surface, the picking boom then transfers it onboard onto the pot launcher. Jason Bartlett © Above is the complete picking boom attached to the bow mast. I quite enjoyed working out the location of the mounting points to join the two like that onboard the fishing vessels seen on the  television show Deadliest Catch. Jason Bartlett © To create all the rigging, I used bezier curves and extruded highlighted cylinder faces along them.