Hi all.
I have a river running through my property so from time to time I find interesting bits of drift wood washed up on the banks. I have been collecting these for some while without really knowing what to do with them. I don't really know what sparked the idea for this build except it is very rare that I build anything the same as previous stuff that I have done. So somehow moving on from the large scale sculpt that I just finished for our museum, I decided to sculpt something in the tiniest scale and I ended up, after doodling around for a while, with this idea for a mini city.
I started off by dressing up some pieces of drift wood to create a sort of circle of mountains.
1. The cut wood lightly stained with a reddish wood stain.
2. The wood mounted onto a 4" by 4" wooden base.
3. The outside of the wood finally stained and varnished.
I then moved on to building up the tiny fantasy city in the interrior.
4. I painted the inside black and started to add ground using insulating foam.
5 This was covered with a coat of precoloured tile grout.
6. I then started to build the city using Magic Sculpt
7. Once mostly built it got a coat of Tamiya primer.
8. Then I painted the whole thing with another coat of black to act as undercoating for the final painting.
More to come.............
John
I have a river running through my property so from time to time I find interesting bits of drift wood washed up on the banks. I have been collecting these for some while without really knowing what to do with them. I don't really know what sparked the idea for this build except it is very rare that I build anything the same as previous stuff that I have done. So somehow moving on from the large scale sculpt that I just finished for our museum, I decided to sculpt something in the tiniest scale and I ended up, after doodling around for a while, with this idea for a mini city.
I started off by dressing up some pieces of drift wood to create a sort of circle of mountains.
1. The cut wood lightly stained with a reddish wood stain.
2. The wood mounted onto a 4" by 4" wooden base.
3. The outside of the wood finally stained and varnished.
I then moved on to building up the tiny fantasy city in the interrior.
4. I painted the inside black and started to add ground using insulating foam.
5 This was covered with a coat of precoloured tile grout.
6. I then started to build the city using Magic Sculpt
7. Once mostly built it got a coat of Tamiya primer.
8. Then I painted the whole thing with another coat of black to act as undercoating for the final painting.
More to come.............
John
