Re: [SG]?Styrofoam walls...
From: Donald Hosford <hosford.donald@a...>
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 21:51:25 -0500
Subject: Re: [SG]?Styrofoam walls...
Ndege Diamond wrote:
> At 11:36 PM 3/26/99 -0500, you wrote:
>
> I made a bunker for Stargrunt out of packing styrafoam recently. I
sanded
> the styrafoam down with some fine grit then covered it with a few
layers of
> my special texture mix to fill in the space between the beads. It is
1/3
> spackling paste, 1/3 Elmer's White Glue All, and 1/3 water. It looks
> better than paper or card IMO and it protects the styrafoam so you can
> spraypaint it. After sanding down the texture I made some firing
slits out
> of plastic card and free floppy disks (thanks AOL). The guide tracks
for
> the metal disk guard ready made for firing slits. The insides of the
> plastic floppy case have some interesting textures that I have used
for
> other sci fi terrain as well.
>
> Ndege Diamond
>
> We are all here because we are not all there.
> Nezach(at)earthlink(dot)net
Sounds interesting. How big was the bunker when you were finished?
Donald Hosford