Have YOU Ever Wanted to Know – How to Craft Rolling Hills
Building hard shells is your first task in crafting life like scenery. We’re going to give you a crash course that any late night partying college frat boy would envy!
First you must gather a lot of newspaper or even cray paper will do, but LOTs more of it.
OK… Now You’ll Need Some Card Board and Scissors – WAIT… Let Me just Make a List:
- Newspaper
- Cardboard boxes (Large enough to cut into 3 foot strips)
- Scissors
- Tape (masking)
- Glue
- Water Source w/bucket
- Plaster
- Opengrid Bench
- Color Pic of Scene
- Small Blocks of Wood (For Propping Up Hills & Mountains)
- Two good hands (YOURS!)
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Identify areas of elevation and depression. Position blocks of wood accordingly. Carefully fit cut strips of cardboard in desired position. Hold in position w/tape. use as much as needed in which ever area demands attention. Carefully mold your land scape using cardboard strips supported by the newspaper you confiscated from the dog or some other unfortunate soul!
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Once muscled into position, plaster cardboard skeleton… using color photo as prototype. Let sit until dry… then remove material inside mold. This is done to prevent unwanted fires from erupting due to old dry newspaper gingerly resting under Fiery amps.
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The above outline or formula works for most scenery scales… Z, N, HO, OO, S, O, … You as an individual must regulate size and depth.
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