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How To - GIJoe Pit Exterior Building! Woot!

11-29-2009, 02:40 PM	#1
fifthconspiracy Smack-Talking Ninja Offline --> Posts: 581 --> Join Date: Jan 2008	How To - GIJoe Pit Exterior Building! Woot! A totally amateur how-to on creating a hardened concrete bunker. I am totally flying by the seat of my pants here and pretty much have no idea what in the hell I am doing. Comments always welcome. Ok, first off, my apologies for the missing pics from my previous how-tos (from like almost 2 years ago). I let my personal virtual hosting account lapse and never did get the data etc. If you are interested, you can find most of the pics on my flickr account here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fifthc...57605011989469/ Anyways, onto some new dio-building action! Having been inspired by the SDCC 09 photos of the GI Joe Pit display, I decided to embark on my own concrete bunker-style building. I decided that thin plywood from a hobby store was a good building material (foam board crossed my mind, but I have yet to see anyone truly work detailed wonders with it). And for a bottom dio base, I went with an old piece of thick plywood (as there will be no dirt or grass etc). Here's the start, Chuckles is checking for head-room clearance: Totally making this up with my table saw and a hack saw as I go. Working with super-thin plywood and making accurate small cuts is difficult.... Vader9900 noted that a small scroll-saw would be the proper tool to use. I may still pick one up... Using super-thin plywood, adding on the blocks... going for the general look of the SDCC diorama display. And you'll notice I lost the third window... I wanted more wall space to work with. Looking good. Paint app with texture or hammered finish should give it the desired texture. Onto the paint! Woot! Cheers! ~ Paul. Last edited by fifthconspiracy : 11-29-2009 at 02:41 PM. Reason: Small update...

11-29-2009, 02:55 PM	#2
Flatline THEY ARE NOT DOLLS!!! Offline --> Posts: 16,464 --> Join Date: Jun 2007	It's about time you threw down some more of these....maybe now I can get off my duff from football 80's cartoons and the internet porn and be inspired to make new sets.....MAYBE __________________ MY FLICKR PAGE......

11-29-2009, 03:09 PM

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...maybe now I can get off my duff from football 80's cartoons and the internet porn and be inspired to make new sets.....MAYBE

Football and 80's cartoons sure... but let's not be too drastic with Internet porn. Ease out of it...

Cheers! ~ Paul.

11-29-2009, 03:16 PM

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Football and 80's cartoons sure... but let's not be too drastic with Internet porn. Ease out of it...

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11-29-2009, 03:35 PM	#5
Sonneilon aka 'Paul WS Anderson' ;) Offline --> Posts: 7,751 --> Join Date: Jul 2005	I'm curious as to how this will look in the end.

Some Paint...

11-29-2009, 04:04 PM	#6
fifthconspiracy Smack-Talking Ninja Offline --> Posts: 581 --> Join Date: Jan 2008	Some Paint... Added some paint... now there's a method to my madness. The building will not stay red! I just happened to have a 5 year old can of red speckled spray paint lying around... and I wanted the texture. I will be going over the building in various greys... and adding some darker washes to the edges of each "block" on the wall. We'll see. I may change my mind in the end and spray-bomb the whole thing ;-) It's getting there! Cheers! ~ Paul. Last edited by fifthconspiracy : 11-29-2009 at 04:09 PM. Reason: Small update...