I watched The Last Crusade the other night and when the scene came on when Indy swings off the Coronado and ends up in the drink I new that I had to give this scene a go. The scene isn't 100% accurate but I was extremely happy with the way it turned out especially never doing an ocean diorama before.

RECIPE

1: Figure, Cross of Coronado & Life saver - The indy figure is from Hasbro it's the ROTLA series 1 figure the one with the huge holster. I cut him off at the waist and put him in the pose I wanted and then puttied him up using Games Workshops Greenstuff.

The life preserver is from a babies rattle I cut off the end of the rattle and cut out the inner section and then glued the two ends together.

I then added string around the edges using thin string, the writing is from some transfers which you rub on with a pencil.The Cross of Coronado is from Hasbro's Young Indy, I just cut it off and placed in Indy's hand and added a small chain from the bits box.
The white hat is from a Indy figure which I just cut out a small section on the front left hand side and then painted it white.

2: The CORONADO - is made from cardboard cut to the desired shaped and glued togther using superglue, the holes in the Stern section were traced drawn on then cut out. I decided to give the stern a few holes made by explosions I did this by just cutting a cross into the cardboard and pulling the cardboard forward.

The flames are from an old Human Torch figure which I've had lying around and the smoke is some fake Halloween spiderwebs, I sprayed them slightly and then pulled them apart and glued inplace using PVA glue. The writing was done by writing on the hull with a pencil then using the pencil as a guide painted over that.

3: Water - The water is made from plaster of paris, I let it dry a little and then used a large hard bristle brush to simulate the bubbling affect around the hull. I then used a spoon to simulate waves, I did this by putting the teaspoon into water then pushing into the drying plaster and gave it a slight push to get the affect I wanted.

I then painted the water using a dark green and let it dry then using a watered down two part mix of dark green and light green gave the whole base a wash of this mixture. Once the paint dried I used Matt white and dry brushed the bubbling area's and the waves.