The subwalls were cut from a left-over piece of strathmore board and as you can see I haven't clad the subs with embossed card yet.
Actually, the build has gone further than the image indicates. I will make an updated post as soon as I can about my progress and the structures dimensions.
I can not believe that I haven't made post yet.
The induction engine is compete for now. I might go back and add more details later on.
I am considering adding a copper wire from both ends leading to the underside of the platform to somewhere.
The Distillation Tank has seen multiple additions and revisions. Some of the additions are listed below.
Since the pipes are bent to one side; weave had a small mishap.
I will come back to this.
The horizontal strips measure aproximately 2 scale feet wide in 1/87 scale.
Since the spring house is ready for a roof I thought I might try shingles this time. Individual shingles at this scale would be too tedious for me today. so I cut them into strips from a left over Bristol board and delinated each shingle by cutting a notch between each shingle. I varied the width and the height of the shingles on the horizontal strips.
I built the spring house from left over bits of foam-core.The structure measures a scale 13.5 by 11 feet in 1/87 scale. This one is a bit bigger than some and provides a little area for keeping some provisions cold.
The structure is made to look like a concrete building, with a shingled roof.
The foamcore takes well to acrylic paint. The structure was based coated with a coat of light grey. I followed with a dry-brushing of another lite gray and a medium grey. The roof was painted with a I gobbed the inside corners with white glue to give the model some material strength.
These structures facinate me and I have been wanting to build something like this for some time. I was thinking of using cardstock built upon a strip wood framework. As I see it you could build the lower floors securly and then continue to build on the upper floors. I have studied many of these structures and there are many ways to fashion these structures.
There is the little thing of needing some paint and then I can glue the copper rod for the induction engine in place.
There are a couple of small greeblies to be added to the base and to the distillation tank. The base was taken from a box of discarded pieces. I have no idea of its orignal proposed use.
The material I cut the three components below from was about this size. Polystrene is easy to work with and is very forgiving. I am still working on getting everything plumb aand true.
The circle is for the top of a distillation tank, the rectangle is the top of the platform that will hold the Induction Engine, and the square on the right is the metal platform for the distillation tank.
I own a few of these. I had purchased them for kit-bashing projects. I wish I had purchased a few more of these models, since they have become harder to locate. Although they may not have the same amount of detail as other kits they are well made and simply constructed, and you can always had your own details.
I scribed horizontal lines down both sides of the strip and plan on adding holes at either end big enough to accept tubing. At the moment, I have no idea on what these specifically may be used for. They will be added to something appropriate.
At the time I laid these rails out I had no idea as to what they might become. I decided they would become "pipe rails"
Keeping it simple and painting the core black. Wrap and glue thin copper wire in the grooves and adhere to the textured black base. A small control box to be added on the base.
It didn't happen that way and I am still tweaking its design. I have painted the cork screw copper and drilled two small holes on the bottom of the rod. I was planning on adding two small stands here, but after I gave it a try and it all seemed too flimsy. The center piece needs a bit of touch-up where I used aluminum paint. An equipment box needs to fabricated and "attached" to the base of the screw.
I've been wanting to build a structure like this for some time and now I have a possible prototype. It looks like a simple and fun build with polystyrene sheets.
This is a scratch build of a filtration unit. I formed bits of styrene components into what you see here.
Another greeble. I am waiting on the model putty to putty to fill in a couple of crevices. (the model putty came through the mail). The putty worked great and I like the end result.
Additional text was added to the sentence above. 08/23 @ 20:10.
I only know what one of these contraptions is and at this point I have know idea how I might use them. The miniatures were slapped together using bits of leftover plastics, mostly! I have wanted to get to this project for some time and all I needed was an excuse to get down to my shop. The greeble in the center is a miniature desalination unit, on the top is am industrial coil unit, and the greeble on the bottom is a type of distiller.
I have another greeble on my workbench waiting on some plastic putty. I will post this as soon as the piece is completed. Remember, you can never have too many greeble.
Text added to the end of the first paragrah on 8/22/26 @ 20:34.
It wasn't untill I had glued the four wwalls together that I fully understood just how off my geometry was on the roof panels. I got it worked out, but haven't had time to implment these changes,
The video gives the viewer a streight forward method to building a vehicle ready for the Gas Lands.
Hear are the four triangles that will make-up the pyramid roof. The roof panels measure 13.5 foot wide by six foot tall. I am not all that happy with how the paint job ended up. I will try a couple little tricks in order to make the roof look a little better.
I have been slow in completing this structure. As you can see I have started creating doors and windows. I started the window by glueing a square piece of window materials to the inside of the structure. Then I added mullions to the glazing material to create the four pane window. The panel door was scratch built using various widths of card stock glued to a cardstock backing.
Once the baords have been added I primed each section with tan hobby paint.
Once the paint was dry I added the trim around the windows and doors.
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Using a sheet of polystyrene and a concept from a science fiction novel's front covers art the authors builds a fabulous space ship. As building a spaceship with styrene is on my bucket list this article is inspirational.
I used 3 by 5 file cards for the boards and cut them from 3 to 14 inches wide. I used a file card to add wood grain and a hobby knife to add a few knots. I need to go back clean up some of the window opening.
