Bath boat

Making toys for the children of friends I remembered an old bath toy from when I was little - the Glug Glug Tug. A simple toy in which water poured into the 'funnel' would come out of a small jet below the water line and propel it along for a few seconds. Great fun for small kids at bathtime! Impossible to find now and anyway they look rubbish by todays standards, so I made something a bit more visually pleasing.

To make more robust and save print time, I used a length of 32mm ID plastic basin drain pipe for the reservoir/funnel, and 2 more lengths (20cm each) of 40mm ID bath drain pipe for the pontoons, with printed end-caps epoxied into place and the entire assembly sprayed with 3 coats of a nice bright enamel paint to make the whole thing water tight. The pontoons are hot-glued onto the hull as central and symetrically as possible - I scuffed back the paint on the surface to be glued to help get a decent bond. I also - for now - hot-glued the cabin and funnel in place making sure