October 24, 2004

Apply the Decals to a piece of Foamcore. DO NOT cut them out just yet...

October 24, 2004

Slice apart the Foamcore to seperate the 2 Decals but LEAVE AN EDGE around the sticker. Take a similar size piece of Foamcore. The doors are Double Thickness.

Get your Hot Glue Gun and attach the 2 pieces together like a sandwich.

October 24, 2004

Once the Hot Glue hardens you can use your Xacto Blade to sut along the edges of the stickers creating a perfect CLEAN edge.

October 24, 2004

Now get your brush and paint the exposed Foamcore edges.

Niub Niub Tip:

Keep the brush at an angle so you don't get paint on the Door Decal.

October 24, 2004

When dry, you can lean your Blastdoors against the Top Panel and the Corridor Floor.

Looking cool :)

October 24, 2004

Here is where we are at as of now. As you can see with the Yellow Arrows, the Blastdoors can open and close to recreate different scenes from the movie or just be like a cool playset.

There are 2 ways to display the Diorama. You can leave the gap on the Left so that when you look into the Diorama you will see the Doors and the Walls, like in the film.

October 31, 2004

Every table needs some legs to stand on right? :) Well since the table is so wide, I thought of using some leftover Poster Tube. These are easily found in post office or Home Depot stores and cost about $3.00.

Measure 4cm all around the Poster Tube with a pencil.

October 31, 2004

Now take your Xacto Knife and score all the way around once to mark the path the blade will take. Then you can go deeper and poke a hole with your blade.

Simply roll the tube with your hand while you push the blade in, making it "slide" against the tube's cardboard surface. This will give you a clean cut.

October 31, 2004

If your blade was sharp enough you should have a perfect 4cm tube like in the picture.

October 31, 2004

Get out some leftover Mac Tac and cut a piece long enough to go all the way around the Tube.