[GZG] A scratchbuilt Ringworld/Halo

For your Full Thrusty pleasure:

http://home.comcast.net/~kudby/ring5.jpg

http://home.comcast.net/~kudby/ring1.jpg

http://home.comcast.net/~kudby/ring4.jpg

http://home.comcast.net/~kudby/ring2.jpg

http://home.comcast.net/~kudby/ring3.jpg

This was my attempt at making a Ringworld/Halo for the tabletop.  It has
no real value except as scenery, much like any custom planet.  It was
made using the inner hoop of a wooden 4" embroidery hoop, available at
Michaels craft store for around $2.

I started by texturing the inner side of the ring with spackle (the
paste used to patch holes in drywall).	I tried to have a good variety
of mountains, ridges, and flat spaces for water.  Two coats of white
primer followed once the spackle was dry.  I used solid colors for the
base -- dark blue, dark brown, etc.  Then Iightened the paint by cutting
it with white and did successive layers of drybrushing.  The forests
were made using a stipple method, while the bodies of water were lightly
drybrushed with white to give them some depth.	I finished by
drybrushing the peaks of the highest mountains/ridges with white to make
snowy peaks.  

The whole ring got a coat of Dull-Cote, then I glued on a strip of
printed circuit plastic sheeting I liberated from inside an old Dell
keyboard.  I figured that a lot of renderings of Ringworld/Halo showed
all kinds of industrial greeblies on the outside of the ring, so I used
the printed circuit sheeting to make an effect of that nature.	

The ship in the picture is Brigade Models' Dortmund-class battlecruiser,
included for comparison.  Sorry that the photography is gawdawful -- I
think my Kodak digicam is on its last legs.

Thanks,
Andreas
Spokane, WA, USA

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