Blackadder's Lucius Pattern Warhound "Lucie"

[Blackadder]

RUINS:

 

A bit of an experiment here; I spent the better part of an hour making an octagonal ruin tower and felt there had to be an easier way. Fortunately I just had an oak workbench delivered that came with the usual environmentally unfriendly foam packing. Sheets upon sheets of 1/2 inch styrene foam that will outlast any of us by millennia.

 

Taking my utility knife with a pristine new blade; in a couple of seconds I had duplicated the labor intense tower facets with apropos distressed fractures complimentary to the cutting.

 

A couple more minutes gluing the foam to the base and below are the results. Note the white glue isn't even dried.

http://i.imgur.com/xO9IkJB.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/xO9IkJBl.jpg

 

 

http://i.imgur.com/4RWNpDu.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/4RWNpDul.jpg

 

 

http://i.imgur.com/h1yogMR.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/h1yogMRl.jpg

 

Now obviously there is a downside to this simple procedure otherwise greater brains than I possess would have suggested it but until I hit this snag I'll proceed like Pollyanna.

[Blackadder]

Organized Entropy:

 

Who would have thought it would be so hard to create disorder; try as I might everything still looks too orderly. I have to thank Winterdyne for the idea to chop up sprues for beams and bricks but I need to go a few steps further to blur the sharp edges as the clean lines stand out too vividly;especially in image three.

http://i.imgur.com/8UMXnBb.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/8UMXnBbl.jpg

 

The tree is a clean dried root from a weed I had growing on my patio and the major buttress components are sculpted packing foam (See above)

 

http://i.imgur.com/wpSeQdo.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/wpSeQdol.jpg

 

Believe it or not the black prime is direct from a toluene based aerosol paint spray can applied directly on the naked foam (Ha; he said, "Naked....") lightly for the first and second coat to stabilize the surface so the final coats do not dissolve the styrene foam.

 

http://i.imgur.com/o1sYq6Q.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/o1sYq6Ql.jpg