October 14, 2001
Ok, now we are ready to bond the hallway to the main
room. But before that we must prep up the hallway.
First off I glued my pillows along the edge of the
hallway making them stick out half way on the outside.
Then I used my multi colored wires and wrapped them
around the outer rim of the foamcore.
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Use your hot
glue gun to secure some of the wires in place if they wiggle
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October 14, 2001
Using the hot glue gun, I bonded the ceiling and
walls to the floor.
Make sure to put guide marks on the floor so you
know exactly where it should fit or else you could
end up with a BIG mess trying to reposition it later. |
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October 14, 2001
Once the walls are secured, attach the hallway tube
to the foamcore of the back wall. |
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October 14, 2001
The arrows are pointing to where the hot glue is
best applied.
You want to make sure the connections are flush against
the floor base or the connections will not fit. |
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Make sure that the wires aren't caught between the
walls when pushing the 2 pieces together. |
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October 14, 2001
I next cut out the shape of the gap into a thin cardboard
just like the 2 boxes on each side of the hallway.
This will be the cover that goes over the wires
and keeps them from popping out everywhere.
Take your time here, you want clean cuts so it looks
like metal. |
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October 14, 2001
Using dabs of hot glue, I attached the cardboard
ring to the main wall.
Since the pillows were attached half extended from
the hallway, the ring is now flush over the wires. |
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October 14, 2001
Last step is to glue a stereo cable around the pillows.
The white arrows might help you better see what I
am talking about :) |
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October 14, 2001
Now for the tubing details.
Since the diorama is small, regular video cable is
too tight and hard to bend around small corners. So
I used rope.
My friend Brent thought they were wicks from oil
lanterns. You could use those also as they have the
same texture.
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I used the hot
glue gun and attached them in the exact manner they were
placed in the movie set.
Once I weather them with paint and gross oily drippings
they should look just like in the film :) |
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October 14, 2001
Ah, Looks like Han has popped in again for an inspection
:)
Starting to really shape up. but something looks
odd... like somethings missing... |
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November 04, 2001
Because the Island Couch is a little bigger then
expected, I had to cut up the bunk bed area and raise
it an inch or so.
This was very hard to do without destroying the
entire diorama. |
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November 04, 2001
Take your finished Island Couch and Chess Table... |
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November 04, 2001
... And place it in it's resting place just below
the Bunk Bed Sleeping Quarters.
Looking Good :) |
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November 18, 2001
Time to finish the corridors.
I started by making boxes 1 cm deep using the back
pieces I had previously cut out of the Corridor Tubes.
This is where the "pipes" will go. |
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November 18, 2001
Using straws and Video wires I created the "pipes"
you see in the exposed boxes of the corridor.
You can kind of see in the photo on the floor the
pipes I used as reference. |
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