Sunday 22 August 2010

the 'what every good Doctor Who story needs' project part 4

right... basic build done... need to do the gravel/dirt transition at the top which I'm hoping will be successfully achieved with torn cork tile...

the eagle-eyed amongst you may notice the promontory is now longer than the earlier shots, it looked too stumpy and is now a full length of A4 with the end piece now seperate... still fits in two boxes though with space to spare so I need to come up with something a little extra...

still a few kinks in the joining edges which need fixing (really do need plans when I do this sort of thing) but basically that should be that... have run out of filler and sandpaper though...
also had a thought - quite random and may not do anything with it, but do some high security fences and it could do service as somekind of animal enclosure... raptors maybe?

Tuesday 17 August 2010

the 'what every good Doctor Who story needs' project part 3

right... I have to say that the upper levels have stumped me a bit... the replication of the 25mm thick layers wasn't going to look right so I had to have a rethink and this is what I'm going with at the moment...

I think the larger slabs need a bit more definition, have been adding bits that jut out a bit to make it more rugged and less of a flat surface (looks good from looking up from the base), which have helped break up the large flat surface, but not sure how much of that I can get away with... there is some grooving and so on in there, but it's been partially killed by the flash... I also scored the 3rd 25mm layer into two layers for a bit more variety, but again, that's barely visible...

it certainly won't be any higher than that, as that's the depth of the paper box it will be stored in, allowing for the base and the rock/dirt/grass transitional layer on the top...

Monday 9 August 2010

a Rose by any other name...

Crooked Dice's Daisy Taylor...

a really nice sculpt by Andrew Rae (Korosho Productions) for Karl and Graeme at Crooked Dice, she is due to appear on the Crooked Dice website at some point - hence the extra effort on the base (for me at anyrate)... chip and burger papers and a crushed Fosters can made from Rizla paper... it will probably get rebased at some point as it won't match any of the other stuff and I have little to no urban terrain planned (dreamed of, but not planned)...