Soldado's Burrows and Badgers terrain - Part the second! The Mansion of Marneous Blackwick!
An idea begins to form - TREEHOUSES!
So on the drive to work this morning, my brain started turning over a couple of things, a really nice project on creating giant trees:
And the forest hideout from Robin Hood – Prince of thieves
so instead of actually working I started drawing out the initial ideas…
Im no artist so bear with me here, im unlikely to use the same method of building the trunk as @sotf but will have to see if my foamcore structure idea will support the platforms and minis once constructed, fingers crossed.
So Stage 1:I have created my tree form from strips of foamcore hot glued so that they form a cross in profile. then stuck this at a suitably rakish angle to an old CD. I’ve added a heavy washer at the rear of the tree to provide a counter balance.
then at a random height I have skewered the form with 3 planks, these will form the supports for the platform, I have then added more coffee stirrer support to act as forms for branches.
More supports were added after the picture was taken…
Step 2:Here we begin added the brown goop to the roots and branches, I’m gonna let these dry before adding more for 2 reasons:
1: Its heavy at this point and I dont want to break the form while manhandling it.
2: I’ve run out of goop 🙁 silly boy.
So I made some more goop and finished off the tree, now its gonna be waiting for it to dry so I'll get on and build a couple more as Im happy with how this bit works.
4 more armatures started
I found I was using way to much goop so started filling the gaps with waste paper them laying the goop over the top.
The trees have finished drying, now I'll follow @sotf's tutorial, ie make the bark channels and then cover in a layer of tissue paper, but that will have to wait :(
A very cool idea, and again very on-theme for B&B.
cheers @davehawes glad you like it, as they progress im happier and happier with how they’re turning out.