Paint
Direct acrylic actually works way better than you might expect, especially if you go for the blended vibe that we have.
painting a fish
after busting out the blended blue
Lighting
putting up the lights as a proof of concept
Figuring out how to hold on the EL wire was super hard. We eventually settled on using E6000, and it did hold during the race.
Fish Construction
the insulation foam fish core
Lessons
- Don’t place numbers directly on hinges/door edges. This will make tracing it with lights very hard / not work at all lol.