Subject:
|
Re: How do a build a mountain?
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.town
|
Date:
|
Sun, 26 Mar 2000 21:23:35 GMT
|
Highlighted:
|
(details)
|
Viewed:
|
1670 times
|
| |
|
|
In lugnet.town, Tobias Möller writes:
> You can build your own mountain, that way you can have it flat at the top and
> have caves and other things. If you build it with newspapers and then cover • them
> with a thivk layer of plaster, you can then file the plaster flat and paint • it.
> Perhaps you'd like to add some texture too. The problem is, it won't look as
> good as the ones you can buy in stores (I don't know how good *you* are, but I
> made a mountain for a model railroad that looked *good*, but not fantastic.).
>
> I made a space-scene once to shoot my space-models in:
> m1.876.telia.com/~u87609425/hugo/index.html
> Perhaps it helps.
>
> BTW, what's wrong with styrofoam?
>
> --Tobias
You know, I was actually thinking about making one out of plaster! I've
worked with plaster before so I know how to work with it. I'm not too sure
how I could get the texture. The paint is the same way. I guess I would just
have to paint the entire thing brown. I think it would end up being cheaper
than BURP's. It would look more realistic. Since I have used non lego
elements for the water, beach, grass, and roads, it would make sense that a
mountain be made out of non lego elements. I was even going so far as to get
railroad trees instead of Lego trees, but that would end up being more
expensive. That really is cool how you created the scenery for your space
scenes. Great work!
The styrofoam that I saw was the biggest piece of junk. First, it's so
brittle. Second, the way they painted it looked horrible. Third, it was SO
TINY! I need a nice big one. Fourth, there was no flat top. If you can find
a decent styrofoam one, I'd love to see it!
Brendan
|
|
Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: How do a build a mountain?
|
| We have a Styrofoam mountain in the NGLTC layout. Its made from the sheets of pink home installation, Great stuff foam and a thin layer of sheetrock putty (for texture). Also a few clone blocks were added as rocks to the mountain to give it some (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.town)
|
Message is in Reply To:
| | Re: How do a build a mountain?
|
| You can build your own mountain, that way you can have it flat at the top and have caves and other things. If you build it with newspapers and then cover them with a thivk layer of plaster, you can then file the plaster flat and paint it. Perhaps (...) (25 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.town)
|
14 Messages in This Thread:
 
 
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
