Pyrats, a Hanging and the Lighthouse

A friend sent me a link to this rather awesome Pirate animation, quite short, but full of awesome and lots of nice town reference.
http://www.gobelins.fr/galerie/animation/gen2006-3.htm

which goes well with these gallows I made during the week





I got the hanging man from Megaminis along with a bunch of furniture and chickens and animals to dress up the town. Needed a full platform to make it look good though. I built this from coffee stirrers, paddlepop sticks and matchsticks and balsa wood.

Next on the projects list was the old windmill, I pulled it apart cut out all the horrible windows and redid them using match sticks cut to fit. Then assemble the thing and glued it up and started plaster filling the gaps and texturing the walls




I think I will deck over the platform and then I need to design a platform for on top and make the light house part.

Detailing Building 2

Jun 07, 2008

It's been a rainy week so haven't done any more painting but have been busy with the dremel and stuff. Here's the latest stuff



as you can see this building got arches cut in as well and a heap of flooring engraving


lots more engraving floors here too, think just the floors took hours.


decided to try adding a fancy window on this one, here I've sketched the window onto the building then after drilling the corners with a pin vise cut it out

here's all the bits to make up the details

and here's the result with an added flower box added as well. Doh forgot to take a pic of the decorative wire supports under the box.

Here's the other walls

this got simple closed shutters glued straight to the wall. The lack of an interior on this building made me try and not have windows facing each other lighting up the lack of a floor inside.

I'll get to this window next


I decided some hanging lanterns would look nice but after trying the look of a few different beads decided to just bite the bullet and make one from scratch. I used plastic tubing and rod to make the original and then made a Silpression mold to push cast some copies from greenstuff (less hassle than resin casting for 1 item)


here it is on a hanger made from match sticks.