Imperial Observation Post 12

[dcrabb]

Here is my entry for a terrain contest for another site. This month's theme was containers. My entry is, Imperial Observation Post 12. I started with some pieces of containers that I thought looked cool to make this:


SANY0186 by Doug Crabb, on Flickr


SANY0187 by Doug Crabb, on Flickr

Starting at the bottom, it sits on a CD, the clear piece is a fruit cup container, topped by a toilet paper roll dispenser spacer, the blue ball is the cap off a motel shampoo container, then comes the top of a Zap a Gap bottle, and the tan top is a lid from a microwave soup container. I hope it looks like a radar/satellite dish

Knowing the skills of the terrain building competition I knew I needed more. So I added this:


SANY0179 by Doug Crabb, on Flickr

It is a box I found at a big hobby chain that is used to contain jewelry/etc. I thought it would make a good fortification:


SANY0180 by Doug Crabb, on Flickr

I drew what I wanted it to look like then used a hobby knife (very carefully cause they're sharp you know) to cut out the slits.



SANY0189 by Doug Crabb, on Flickr

Painted up the two items came out like this:


IMGP2876 by Doug Crabb, on Flickr

I know they look impressive by themselves they needed even more, therefore I came up with Outpost 12:


SANY0190 by Doug Crabb, on Flickr

Adding all the insulation foam and then cutting away everthing that didn't look like an outpost then painting it to look like it was built into a solild rock formation I came up with this:


IMGP2878 by Doug Crabb, on Flickr

Another view:


IMGP2880 by Doug Crabb, on Flickr

[RejectionHurts]

woah dude, thats pretty wicked! the paint job on the rocks is amazing, and the way it went from step one to finished is a pretty wicked process, and i really like how the box was carved out so nicely too, works perfectly. keep up the work!

[Walrus]

That is a beautiful work of art you have there... It's amazingness is extreme ;D

However it would be cooler if you painted the base of the satellite tobe like the rocks...

[RejectionHurts]

lol i totally missed that Walrus =P

oh oh! what if the dish had like... solar panels inside it or something too?!

[Walrus]

Hmm... I like it as is.

The gate built into the rock is another smart addition

[dcrabb]

I debated on painting the base of the radar dish like the rock but decided not to because it is built to be a separate piece and I wanted to make it look like it was able to rotate on the spot. The latter effect might have worked better if I had sunk the base down into the surface a bit.