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Post subject: Building Defences  Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 6:35 pm |
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Dunno if it's of much interest to people, but here's a step by step run through of a project I worked on this week.
A cardboard box forms the basis of the terrain...
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Post subject: Re: Building Defences Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 6:37 pm |
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Using a dinner plate, I draw and then cut a semi circle of card. This gets glued on to the box...
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Post subject: Re: Building Defences Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 6:38 pm |
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More card is cut to form a sheer face for the front of the base. I didn't mean for that to rhyme though...
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Post subject: Re: Building Defences Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 6:39 pm |
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More card is added around the sides. The box is now completely hidden. Is this is beginning to sound like a magic trick?
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Post subject: Re: Building Defences Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 6:40 pm |
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I score a long piece of card with a stanley blade and fold it in half. This forms the shelf that juts outward. Sadly I didn't realise that this sloped so much until the model was finished.
I've also cut another big section of card and mounted the whole thing on to this.
At this stage I realised I wanted stairs running up the front of the base. I had to take the stanley knife to the card and cut sections to create a rough slope upon which the staircase will be built.
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Post subject: Re: Building Defences Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 6:41 pm |
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Recycling toilet rolls to form tunnel entrances for vehicles to access the shelf...
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Post subject: Re: Building Defences Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 6:42 pm |
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At the rear of the base another toilet roll forms the exit main tunnel for vehicles entering the compound. A series of tunnels within the rock will connect this to the shelf and the upper level.
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Post subject: Re: Building Defences Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 6:43 pm |
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I needed a lot of polyfiller to build the rocky walls. Thanks Poundland!
The staircase is formed by slapping on more filler and shaping it with an old dinner knife.
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Post subject: Re: Building Defences Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 6:45 pm |
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Loads of filler forms the basis for all of this "rock"...
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Post subject: Re: Building Defences Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 6:47 pm |
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2 coats of spraypaint later...
Note also more recycling of toilet roll to form an entrance to go on top of the base (bottom left). The structure is inspired not by the Sydney Opera House, but the Glasgow Armadillo.
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Post subject: Re: Building Defences Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 6:48 pm |
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Rear shot of the base post-spraypainting...
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Post subject: Re: Building Defences Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 6:50 pm |
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Some hand-painted detailing. (Also, I had added in pieces of plastic sprue that represent steel beams supporting the overhang).
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Post subject: Re: Building Defences Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 6:52 pm |
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The exit tunnel was painted black. Now with a load of silver paint it's supposed to give the tunnel a look of having being built with aluminium.
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Post subject: Re: Building Defences Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 6:54 pm |
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Same effect on the armadillo. I've painted the supports silver as well but am less pleased with the outcome. (I may yet repaint these black.)
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Post subject: Re: Building Defences Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 6:55 pm |
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Next up, a paint rinse is applied (hand-painted). This has the effect of really showing up the detail of the "rock" surface...
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