It's your first attempt; I think it's just not finished yet. You could find easier way about getting an end result but then you won't learn as much. I would shape it till your happy then put some hooks on it and see how it swims, use screw eye's so you can remove them and reshape untill you either get what you want or have gone too far and can't fix it. My first attempt wasn't very pretty but I learned alot from seeing it through till the end.
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