Domiciles Gameshow Concept Bid Miniature Set Model

Construction Phase

The Rotting Contestant Dock

The dock was constructed differently to the rest of the model in that this was done very organically.

This time no laser cutting or CAD designing. This was constructed mostly from wooden coffee stirrers, split spatulas, strips of walnut laminate (Which looks old and darkened wood).

These were painted in a thin wash of burnt umber and other brown shades, with green dry brush patching.

The aim was to create an uneven moss and lichened wood effect to look weathered, worn, dirty, stained, water logged, mouldy etc.

The strip planks where broken and split in various positions.

The posts for the dock were made from twigs that had been cut to size with my Finn multi tool.

I used a box trap to capture the sections of twigs which tended to fly off when cut.

I then painted the twig ends.

I used the original foam board with texture printout dock as a reference base to start laying out the strip planks to act like roof rafters and is the base for the new dock.

The second and more solid layer started to be built across these at 90 degrees.

All parts were broken roughly to size but not uniform to create an uneven roughly made dock.

The planks were glued bit by bit with superglue and activator.

Holes were created by pushing the pits of the tweezers though the planks to break and crack them. Each of the broken parts was kept in place and dented sticking out like someone had put their foot through it.

More under dock ‘rafters’ were assed to strengthen the cock from underside.

More rust painting, dirty down spraying and glueing grains of sand were added to age the doors.

I used my silicon mould from my CMS 2017 Miniature Model Making course in 2017 to making box crates to build the podiums and paint them like the strip planks. First dab painted to get into all cracks, nooks and crannied then dry brushing burnt umber and mocha brown paint over the planks that form the box crates to give a wood appearance.

At this time, I also made a box mould for my mock A frame and started fast casting those as well.

I did experiment with adding white paint bird poop effects but sis not quite word so painted over in brown.

Laser cut dark acrylic disc were added to inside of the portholes. The inside of the shop box had lots of A Frame glued into place using a mix of accelerated superglue and rapid epoxy glue.

Spatulas where stuck to the underside of the rock extending back. These were glued using epoxy to the underside of the A frames stuck to the inside of the ship box, thus they acted as brackets.

Epoxy was used as I needed a bulky cement like glue as the parts were spaced out and not fitting well together, to pool space between the parts.

This bonded the docks and ship.

The original channel flooring was done with blue foil. I thought this looks cheap and tacky and replaced it with royal blue 2mm Plastazote foam which I thought looks more carpet and professional, looking back I think the fil looks more like water.