Domiciles Gameshow Concept Bid Miniature Set Model
Construction Phase
Materials and Tools
The plan on how to build the concept model was:
The scale would be 1:25
I would build both a gameshow set and separately a model of the actual studio to place the model of the set into to see how it would fit and raise any problematic issues. This would also enable other sets to be placed in the studio model.
Most of the model to be computer designed in vector art package Adobe Illustrator to product 2D cutting plans for components as most cutting would be 2 dimensional out of flat materials.
The reason for this is most parts were to be laser cut from a range of materials including:
- 0.5mm MDF as being this thin in plastic would result in melting and deforming.
- 1.0- and 1.5-mm or 2.00mm Polystyrene.
- Various thicknesses or Foamex or Par light modelling foam board where a layer of paper can be removed to carve the foam.
- The lightbulbs in the design and mentioned in the script could be done with stuck on 3mm rhine stone gems which seem to fit the scale size of typical bulbs.
- The contestant docks however would be organically built from spatula and coffee stirrer sticks broken to create an organic wood textured and broken dirty random appearance.
- The intention was to 3D print the podiums to look like rotten ship anchoring bollards seen on docks.
- This was later changed to piles of crates as I had some resin cast boxes from the ships graveyard model made for the early Miniature Model Making course in 2017 and had a silicon mould already made for suitably sized and scaled boxes. Plus, my 3D printer needs repair parts which should be costly.
- This was mostly glued with alternating sections of UHU glue plus superglue fixed with accelertor.
I was to purchase 1:25 scale people to populate the model.
The original plan had been to try and source tiny ships that could be placed between the host and contestant areas that would be scaled to the size of a large dog, ideally 18th century ship of the line models but those proved to hard to fand and would lack detail. Also looked at the idea of a model warship that would be scaled down from a around 3m long. This was also shelved.
The ship idea was replaced by rubber toys sharks which I attached flags to so ‘Patriotic sharks’ to symbolise the home office drive migrants and keep them out mentality which would also give a Austin Powers comical feel with the underlying sinister racisim.
