Well, since I haven't been doing any wargaming for quite a while now, my focus is likely to remain on creating these micro-diorama scenes called booknooks. The ideas just keep coming. I have gifted just about everyone on my Christmas list with them, and now I'm doing one for myself. I will probably give this one away at some point as well. I have limited room for them, unfortunately. But they are great fun to create.
This one is a Harry Potter Wizarding World theme, one of the four houses at Hogwarts School of Wizardry, Slytherin. It is a small section of the Slytherin Common Room. The outside of the case is decorated with the snake shield of Slytherin and the stone face of Salazar Slytherin, the founder of the house. Hope you like.
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| Sculpting Salazar Slytherin from cosclay |
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| The snake was made from cosclay |
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| The facing and steps are sculpted from 1" XPS foam |
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| Finished right wall |
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| Finished left wall, roof, floor, and rear wall. |
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| Bottles were made from hot glue, glass beads, and wood |
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| The chandelier drying |
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| Gas lanterns half done |
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| The gas lantern chandelier |
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| The skull and case |
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| adding details |
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| Trying out placements |
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| The wall is 1/4" foam core. The fireplace is repurposed packing foam I saved from the trash. The texture is dry spackling. |
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| the back is made from two sandwiched pieces of 1/4" foam core |
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| The floor is 1/4" foam core. The blocks are impressed with a sharp pencil. |
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| Just getting started |
