The shack is built from Balsa, cardstock, corrugated material, and foamcore. The privey was built in 1/64 scale for a Gaslands project.
Another view. I do like working with Balsa. Balsa is easy to distress and made to look like it has seen better days.
This structure is from Woodland Scenics and is cast from white metal. This kit one of the three potties that I made a post on sometime ago.
Oops. I didn't realize there was someone inside.
I was out for a walk today and these bits of pink and white caught my eye.
A doll brush cast in plastic and is 40mm long by 16mm high.
A dolly purse. No, there is no ID inside.The hard plastic purse measures 29mm long, not counting the strap and 16mm high.
Greeble? Or perhaps a large scale grinder; electric motor? Hard plastic; measures 23mm long.
"The Fremen see her (Alia Atreides) as the Earth Figure, a demi-goddess whose special charge is to protect the tribes through her powers of violence. She is Reverend Mother to their Reverend Mothers. To pilgrims who seek her out with demands that she restore virility or make the barren fruitful, she is a form of anti-mentat. She feeds on that strong human desire for the mysterious. She is living proof that the 'analytic' has limits. She represents ultimate tension. She is the virgin-harlot - witty, vulgur, cruel, as destructive in her whims as a coriolis storm."
―St Alia-of-the-Knife as taken from The Irulan Report
Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert
"The advent of the Field Process shield and the lasgun with their explosive interaction, deadly to attacker and the attacked, place the current determination on weapons technologies. We need not to go into the special role of atomics. The fact that any Family in my Empire could so deploy its atomics as to destroy the planetory bases of fifty or more other Families cause some nervousness, true. But all of us possess precautionary plans for devastating retaliation. No, my concern goes to the development of humans as special weapons. Here is a virually unlimited field which a few powers are developing."
Maud' dib Lecture From the Stilgar Chronicles
Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert
A new roof is being constructed for the shack. The one I had built simply does not fit on the structure.
Structure updates include inside bracing and something to glue the new roof too.
Two other additions: a porch and porch roof.
“Every civilization must contend with an unconscious force which can block, betray or countermand almost any conscious intention of the collectivity.”
Tleilax Theorem (unproven)
Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert
I just found this resource where the author explains how to use graphite to weather your models to look like metal.
“There exists no separation between gods and men; one blends softly and casually into the other.”
Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert
Wall-E, Pixar/Walt Disney
This PET plastic Wall-E stands 45mm tall.
Eve, Pixar/Walt Disney
This PET plastic miniature stands 55mm tall.
Both of these miniatures are from Mettels Micro Collection.
"-then they discovered they could not control him.
The arcane sisterhood of the Bene Gesserit had produced Paul Atreides by generations of controlled breeding and a lifetime of training in their strange disciplines, giving him, more than human powers. Their intrigues had helped place him on the throne of the Galaxy-wide empire-but he would not their tool, and they set out to overthrow him."
Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert, Berkley Medallion Books, 1969
This is a 1941 Cadillac, Series 62 Convertible Coupe in miniature. I had hoped to had purchased a 1/64 scale figure for this miniature before now. The miniature figure is a heavy set gentlemen (listed as a cab-driver). I had also planned to add a policemen standing aside the vehicle writing a ticket. Well, I will have to put that on my list of purchases for this year.
Some time ago I published The Shacks of Rowland Emett. It was ment as an ispirational piece for myself. If I had built any of the featured structures you would have heard about.
Here is another inspirational structure. I took the screenshot from the movie entitled Luna. The movie started off with a short animation. I will not say too much about the movie, but it was very good.
I did some brain storming and came up with a short list of materials. Some of it I already have on hand. The rest will need to be taken in for the project.
"McKie peered at the shimmering un-presence of the Caleban, ‘Fanny Mae suggested it? He murmured. And he thought, Fanny Mae determines her own brand of reality from what she sees of these mysterious connectives: a special perception tailored to her particular energy consumption.'"
Whipping Star, Frank Herbert
Up to this point the structure is built primarily from cardstock. I used perpainted strips at various widths for the outside walls. The inner walls are cut from a piece of card stock with a tab added for gluing the structure together. This method created a sturdy structure.
The roof has been completed and the construction of a porch is underway.
" Build a ring ninety million miles in radius-one Earth orbit-which would make it six hundred million miles long. If we have the mass of Jupiter to work with and if we make it a million miles wide, we get a thickness of about a thousand meters."
Screenshot from Moonfall
Although the movie was reportly a bomb I enjoyed the movie. The screenshot above depicts some part of the interior apparatus. Although Its use is a mystery to me it did remind me of images I have seen that represent the ring of Ringworld. There were so many images of the internal apparatus that I really need to capture.
