Ok... well I guess those few days turned out to be exactly a month! End of school work has really taken a lot of my time off hobbying, but I've finally gotten some time to actually work on my diorama! I have a long weekend, and so I hope that I'll get quite a bit of work done and get back on schedule...
Here are the 4 pillars. All I have to do now for the 3 unfinished ones is paint some glue into the cracks, prime em, and paint em!
...If you're wondering why I must paint glue into the cracks, it is because the aerosols of my spray paint will melt uncovered polystyrene. I tested it on some scraps, and they melted immediately. Thanks gaarew for the heads up!
Okay, so what I hope to accomplish this weekend is:
1. Cover all uncovered polystyrene with glue.
2. Prime pillars
3. Paint pillars.
4. Finish carving floor of tower
5. Paint floor of tower
6. Paint woodpile
7. Sculpt the hanging bowl (wth is in this anyway? Water or flammable liquid?)
(and possibly) 8. Start working on roof.
I think this is a very achievable goal, as I can easily multitask... what do you think?
I also just made a trade with Bram (Gondolin) for a Pippin which I can easily convert, so hopefully I'll get that within the next week and be able to get started on him! I'm going to have to add a scarf, and switch his sword with a torch (which I still have to sculpt). I'm using the FotR Merry for this, and already have a photo of him right before the beacon scene, so I have an idea of the clothing colors and everything. I'll post that picture up along with the WiP conversion of Pip once I receive him.
And also:
TheBucklandBrewer wrote:
Back in those days I build it, I considered doing the wooden pulley but I could't check into detail close enough to figure out what the hell it was... I couldn't cap screenshots yet so I had to use what I could find on the net or using the pause-key and trying to sketch it or taking a photo of my tv, lol..; of course that didn't really help a lot.
The inspiration pics are actually photos I took of the screne while the movie was paused lol
As usual, all C&C highly appreciated!
Later guys,
RoG (Jul)