Well, I've been lurking here for a while and it's probably time I posted something.
To start off with, here's the beginning of the Star Destroyer Bridge where we first me our favorite bounty hunter, Boba Fett. I guess technically we meet all of the bounty hunters there for the first time, but anyway back to the point of all this... I'm making this specifically to shoot a scene for the project
Empire Uncut. Like most of you, I collect action figures and still like to play with them as a gentleman in his mid 30's. Projects like this give me a chance to play with my toys and do something cool with it. In this case, stop-motion animation. Without further ado, here's the beginnings of my set build.
~ Sizing things up
~ Vader finds my crooked ass cuts disturbing
~ Got everything cut and ready to glue
~ Upper Deck glued
~ Lower Dec glued
~ Sort of a view of the final shot I need to create
~ Got the panels and other junk glued on, mocking up ceiling and testing some lights
~ Detail shot of the panels and other items I glued to the walls for added detail
~ Another shot at this stage, showing scale
~ IG in the house!
Now I need to mix up some Goop (gesso and white glue) and prime this puppy so that the spray paint doesn't eat the foam alive!
For those who care, or are curious...
The walls are constructed from some pink insulation foam I got from Home Depot. The wall panels are styrene I got by cutting up a "For Sale" sign. The wall grating is one of those plastic needle point grid thingies. And the door controller is some plastic greeblie I saved from a while back (saving stuff like that used to really piss off my ex-wife).
Lessons learned so far?
If this were a permanent diorama and not a background piece in a 16 second animation clip, I would have used foamcore instead of pink foam (and not drank so much before cutting it). I would use the super Scotch brand double stick tape I discovered I had, from the beginning, to attach panels and grates vs experimenting with a glue gun and super glues that melts foam - brushed on white glue might have worked well too.
Ok, I'm tired of typing... If anybody wants to check out the clips I made a couple years ago for the original
Star War Uncut project, those can be found on my
Vimeo Page.
Cheers, goodnight all!
