Simple SF House

[Tacgnol]

.... or factory, workshop, villainous HQ,  etcetera.

I made this in January when I was housebound with a fractured ankle and I needed to do something to alleviate the cabin fever. It was a really quick job, made with junk I had within easy reach. It's pretty crude and slapdash but I'd like to contribute something this week since I haven't got a new LPL entry painted.

[Froggy the Great]

Very nice!  What is its scale and origin?

[Tacgnol]

It's 28mm- here's a scale shot.



It was the packaging from a Hannah Montana toy that my cousin's daughter unboxed at our house when the family came over for Boxing Day. I spirited it away before the post-festive-season cleanup began. 

I found the chimney in a drawer of old plumbing supplies in the garage.

[Red Orc]

Nice. Especially as it's made of crap. I love things made from rubbish, partly because it shows people have imagination, partly because it shows we don't need to buy expensive kits (that I can't afford), and partly because it gives me hope that I can reduce the amount of rubbish in my house with the addition of a few other bits of rubbish and some grey paint!

Nice intergration of chimney with the detail on the packaging. Perhaps you could think about some other detailing for that area - that 'bulge' with the 'pipe' coming up is probably some heat-producing or atmospheric pumping unit, so maye some sort of vent or heat sink device would be appropriate?

I especially like the port-hole windows. I helps give it a semi-industrial, mining-colony type look if you know what I mean; it's probably in a fairly harsh environment, not some gorgeous tropical pleasure-planet.

Anyway, yeah, nice job, oh if only I had some Hannah Montana toys (or, maybe not)!

[cheetor]

I like it.  I particularly like the colour and layout of the poster in the context of the austere look of the building.

Something about sci-fi scenery made from junk makes it even more evocative than many kit typs to me.  Mostly I suppose because the sci-fi tv and movies that I was reared on made their sci-fi sets from more or less exactly the same stuff.

I will make one suggestion.... the windows and the chimney work very well, but the door lets the piece down.  The addition of a simple cardboard door (possibly with a frame or with a zig-zag, sci-fi split down the middle would make the whole thing a lot more finished looking.

 

[Tacgnol]

Cheers for the comments, I'm taking it all in!

Cheetor, my original plan was to do as you suggest and build a door from cardboard, but time was ticking away and I rushed to the finish by just drawing the door on with pen (bloody hell, just typing that makes me feel ashamed!)

[cheetor]

(bloody hell, just typing that makes me feel ashamed!)

 

Its not too late to fix it.  In fact, as it is still separate, it would be easy to make the door and spray it a different colour before attaching it, a lot easier than trying to paint or draw or whatever when it is attached to the model.

Additionally, you can then pretend that you kept the door seperate deliberately for that purpose, thereby tranforming all "ashamed" feelings into feelings of self-righteous smugness

_{Edit: for typo.}

[DowVooVoo]

  LOVE IT!!!!