Domiciles Gameshow Concept Bid Miniature Set Model

Construction Phase

Rear Wall With Flag and Logo

The rear wall was, much simpler and planned to do last.

All done in Kapa Palight foam car the white backing of the union Jack.

The features were:

• Red Wall
• Lines of Bulbs (Rhinestones)
• Gameshow Logo.
• There was a mix of laser and hand cut parts.

The red wall first version was laser cut in particular the marker holes for the rhinestones.

I then realised that the arrow logo was too centred and needed to be moved closer to the ship end.

To do this I cut a second rectangle and painted it. I used pins to copy the hole pattern with my hand mini drill. The pins held the two layers together whilst I drill the holes from the first into the second a few centimetres over.

I also made the mistake of leaving the film cover in place before I painted. This meant the paint was not well stuck and kept flaking off, more so when the plastic film started to peel off.
 
I tried to strip this off and replacing but it left quite a rough finish.

Like elsewhere the rhinestones were adding one by one with needle nose tweezers., with engineer’s square helping to keep them aligned.

The union Jack proved harder to manage than I thought it would be as had to be the right way up but had to be done very precisely as the top and bottom are subtly different.

Glitter car was used to enhance the logo centre.

The earlier version done in time for the director’s choice meeting had blue foil to represent the water. Theis was later changed to blue Plastazote foam to look more refined.

I resin cast simulated A-frames to support the flats from behind to show how little room there would be around the set.