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Re: Building a moon-display for your space models
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Wed, 6 Oct 1999 17:16:31 GMT
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In lugnet.build, Christopher Tracey writes:
Greetings, Christopher,
> I did something similar to this when I was messing around with animation back • in
> high school. A friend and I were making an ice planet movie(it never got that
> far) and needed sets. I built a few by first making a frame out of 1x2s • about
> 2x3 feet. Then I formed mountains out of carboard and covered that with moist
> newspaper. Then I covered this with plaster of paris and wall spackel. Most • of
> these thechniques are basic model railroading scenery construction.
Rather what I'd thought to apply-- having been a bit of a RR-fan in my past.
I'm planning to pick a couple of books on layout design to refresh an aging
memory <grin>. If I find anything spectacular, I'll be happy to share it
here. One point that needs to mentioned is that of scale when building
layouts-- I presume that for the most part, what we're disucussing is in
the mini-fig world, and not that of Technic. Although, you know, it wouldn't
be -that- hard to figure the appropriate geometries for both on one layout,
or so it appears to me now. A bit of the 'back of the envelope' engineering
seems to be in order.
> I didn't
> have to paint it since I was looking for a snow finish. I also imbedded some
> broken white plates into the surface for attachment points. I have a clip on
> video somewhere that i should transfer to quicktime or something. We also
> started a large asteriod with a hole(tunnel) in the side that would hold a • 64x64
> stud base. Unfortunately graduation and other stuff got in the way and this
> project was never finished.
Yes, Real Life(tm) has a bad tendency to interfere with the important things
in life, like Lego and chess!
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> I guess i didn't add much new info here, but techniques like this work well • and
> its quite easy to get good results.
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> PS. If you want something short term, you can mix baking soda with water till
> it has a cake batter like consistancy and as it dries out sclupt it into the
> desired shape. This works really well for snow scenes. My friend and I used • it
> for those Star Wars
> diecast metal micro-figs that came out so long ago. Best of all the baking • soda
> is reusable- just crumble it up and wet it again.
>
> -Chris
Cheers,
Roger
> "Tobias Möller" wrote:
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> > I just got this idea that I´ll try soon.
> > By using papier-mache, some glue and sand, you could build a planet plate to
> > play and display your space models on. This would be especially cool with
> > classic space. You form the landscape, spread glue on it, sprinkle over sand
> > and let it dry. Then paint with a sand-like color, not glossy.
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