Charron wrote:For the dish part, it'd be a rather ad-hoc way to do it but you could create a sphere, then carve and hollow it until you've got what you want.
exactly what il recomend, all you have to do now is make a cylinder connecting to the base to the dish, and now make a spike, turn it 90 degrees make the base of the spike go on the centre of the dish, then make another sphere at the end of the spikes spike, hope this helps you....