Friday, August 23, 2013

Mina County has a covered bridge!!!!!

Continuing work...coming along great.  Here are some photos that detail the highlights:

This is a bridge I've been working on, laser-cut wood, assembled with Elmer's all-purpose glue put on thin with a brush.  Two weeks of work and it's finally done but for the weathering.

A little pond at the bottom of rock outcroppings along the track.  Not entirely done yet.

A collapsed building between the tracks before Jasper Rock (what I've been calling that monolith in my mind).  I rebuilt Jasper Rock, coated it with gypsum, added hydrocal molded rocks and painted it.

My dad built this building out of paper!!!!  Looks pretty damned great!

The river, after a final coat of blue-tinted varnish. I still want to add some more rocks.

This was a couple of blocks of 2" pink foam.  I carved the strata using a hot wire carver, coated it in gypsum and painted it.  No rock molds were used to make this at all.

This stone retaining wall was made from a thin sheet of foam, cut with shallow cuts with a hot knife and painted with three different colors of acrylic only partially mixed together.  The cliffs here were done the same way the ones above were.

Sunday, August 18, 2013

August 18th, 2013: Cliffs and Trees

So now I am carving the cliff faces directly into the foam and have made a large amount of hydrocal rock molds.  Father is continuing to lay out ground texture and building trees.  The whole thing is coming along nicely.  Enjoy the video!