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Re: How do a build a mountain?
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lugnet.town
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Tue, 4 Apr 2000 17:36:27 GMT
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wubwub@wildlink.NOMORESPAMcom
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"Tobias Möller" <tobias.moller@telia.com> wrote:
> In lugnet.town, Brendan Coughlin writes:
> >
> > > Yes, and I wouldn't mind generating one to whatever specs
> > > you have - even flat tops and vertical surfaces for
> > > "drilling" tunnels.
> > >
> > > Play well,
> > >
> > > Jacob
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> I built my moonscape like a pinata, but it has it's downsides. The moonscape is
> now under repair, after the famous "foot" accident ;-)
> Not to mention all the tiny fragments of plaster that decorated my room after
> that...
> Perhaps I'd make it solid somehow, using... Concrete or something. Concrete
> would make it very heavy, perhaps you can achieve the same results with plaster
> *only*? A big pile of plaster, let i dry, add some more, more, the drill/file/
> saw it down to the desired shape.
...That would be almost as heavy as concrete (tho easier to work with). U could also use
either foam insulation sheets (those big pink rigid foam sheets u can find at home deopt),
or find a can of spray foam. That stuff is fun, u spray it and it instantly expands to 20x
its size and hardens like styrofoam but better... it could be use to roughly sculpt a
mountain in a few minutes and when cured, should be strong enuf to hold whatever u want
(and is way light)...
> If you make a pinata-style mountain and
> accidently lean against it, you'll be sorry you didn't go for the LEGO
> alternative :-)
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> > Well, you're really going to get two different looking designs if you make a
> > mountain out of Lego's, and a mountain out of plaster. First of all, with
> > Lego bricks, you will get a lot of jagged edges which is perfect for a
> > mountain. You can add bricks anywhere you want. However, with using lego's,
> > you're still taking away the realism of a mountain. I mean look at the water
> > on my website. Blue tinfoil worked PERFECTLY. I couldn't get that realistic
> > look with blue lego pieces. Not to mention, I don't have enough pieces for
> > making a mountain and buying the pieces will take a LOT of money. This
> > mountain is going to end up being 3 feet long and probably about 1 and a half
> > feet wide. The top is going to be a forest. It's basically going to be a
> > cutaway because I want the mountain to look as though it continues on. That's
> > why I'm leaning toward the plaster mountain, but I don't know how how I will
> > make it? Will it be like a pinata and then go from there? This will be a
> > very fun and interesting project, that's for sure. :-)
> >
> > Brendan
...you can go back to ignoring me now...
wubwub
stephen f roberts
wamalug guy (http://wamalug.org)
wildlink.com
lugnet #160
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| (...) I built my moonscape like a pinata, but it has it's downsides. The moonscape is now under repair, after the famous "foot" accident ;-) Not to mention all the tiny fragments of plaster that decorated my room after that... Perhaps I'd make it (...) (25 years ago, 4-Apr-00, to lugnet.town)
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