Living Underground Metro2033 Zona Alfa etc

So I have  been away for a while…

In this time I landed my hands on this 3d kit:
Urban Sherman Avenue Metro Station Digital STL 3D printable

the person who printed off the below bunker for me printed it for a -con which got cancelled (to show off what his business can offer for the miniatures gamer without a 3d printer) so I got it at a very reasonable price…

However I got stuck as how to make the bunker and the station blend together…I tried with plast molds, which I am not 100% happy with. I then got distracted with making and painting more miniatures for this as well as painting all my zombiecide zombies to use with this as well (cheapest way to get a hoarde like group of figures)

However over xmas we got a new iron, which gave me much needed inspiration, below are the plaster tiles i’ll go on in a different post

Now here is the process of my iron foam… I cut it in half, there was a curved section and a sharper section. I thought these would be great for tunnel entrances to give and end to the station (the station looked odd with just the trail ending…

I started with tunnel end foam 2,

I cocktail stuck the bottom section, to the top and using crafting glue left them to stick overnight, these are basically have a foot print of half a hollow square, so I am planning to use them as “blocked” tunnel entrances, I put foam card on the top for a roof (and cover some foam cuts and hollow bits of the top foam piece. Then because my cutting was wonky i glued the bottom to another piece of foam card in a hollow half square shape so that the trains can still fit in when laid on the ground, but the sides wont rock because the back is higher than the sides.

I then used alot of old filler to scrape across all the foam inside the tunnel and out, I then painted it all black and dry brushed it with a grey green, a uniform gray and a white, to give a concrete effect as shown below

my next is to work out how to raise tunnel end foam 1 in a similar fashion as it is currently a tad too low for the trains

I have ordered a cake icing mold of russian cryllic alphabet:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Russian-Alphabet-Cake-Mold-Silicone-Letters-3D-Mould-DIY-Pastry-Bakeware-Tool/143868585397?hash=item217f3c65b5:g:IOEAAOSwYFpfxeS~

which i am planning to use with plaster or greenstuff so I can put ‘Vnkh’ (vnkh is the station arytom lives at, at the start of metro 2033) above both tunnels, I think this would bring them into the world more. Also I noticed online vnkh tunnel in real life has dark green accompanyments so I’ll add these in.

Also I might have a look at the below stls:
https://z1design-shop.co.uk/Subway-Station-Precinct-187

too see if there’s anything I can add (aiming for walls for the underground station and maybe tunnels