Brush With Death 2019 Entry
Walls
With the walls, as I did on the walkway, I started from the corner and worked my way outwards in each direction.
The most difficult part was navigating the smooth transition of wall to arched ceiling. As the angle bent further and further from 90 degrees, I had to switch away from bricks that wrapped around the corner and instead create corner pieces using two flat surfaces. Although I’m not sure it fully supports the illusion of 3D bricks, the eye will probably pass over them when the diorama is fully painted.
You can see where I’ve used drawing pins to hold bricks in place while the glue dries (laid above the brick edges, not pushed through the foam). I used this a lot on the corner pieces of the supports as the roof began to curve, in order to lessen the gaps between bricks. Normally, these gaps would probably be filled with mortar but I wanted to create the effect of well-fitting stonework.
The final layer is what (I hope) really sells the illusion of brickwork.
Again, I had to fake a corner piece in order to continue the lines established on the curve by earlier layer of bricks.
The next step will address the empty space above the tunnel as well as the open ends on the walkway.
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