First I cut the doorways into the
polystyrene, and marked up rough positions for ladders, walkways, balconies and a few spots to get melt. I glued in some wooden tiles, coffee stirrers, pieces from
various plastic scenery kits, bits of toys, circuit boards, card and
plastic grids cut off some household crates. I didn't measure
anything, just made cuts in the most obvious spots suggested by the
form of the polystyrene frames I had.
Hot glue is great, so that's what I
used! The exact amount of glue and the working speed had to be very
precise to not melt the polystyrene. Some areas were also covered in
black paint + PVA glue mix, to protect them and provide dark base
coat that might be helpful later on. I also sprayed some areas with
black to intentionally melt them.
I didn't want to cover the whole thing
yet with any protective paint or filler, just in case I later wanted
to make more cuts or melts to the polystyrene. This makes the
building process a bit slower, but also enables kind of an intuitive workflow
where cutting up a doorway here leads to adding a new platform there, that
in turn might require some ladders etc. for example.
Here's a shot of one possible
configurations of the whole building. I'll make some seperate
triangle shaped floors to join the two walls together a bit better in
certain spots.
Ladders under construction. I first
attach them to pieces of card, just to make it easier to glue them on
the walls and paint them.
Super nice find from the flea market! I
got a big bag full of these plastic dia frames (hundreds of them,
with no glass or anything in there) for a few euros. Just a quick
square of hot glue, piece of aluminium mesh cut to shape, a dia frame
on top and voilá!
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