Farin
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@Dan
you know ..evertime i look at the team-toulouse website,i think to myself : \"why must all these great articles be in french \"
well, my day at university was a bit crappy and i feel like i have to do something usefull for a change, so here\'s the translation:
wolfgang\'s vampire castle:
1. he starts with cutting rocks out of the styrodur blocks thast are 2cm thick. it will be the socket of the castle (styrodur is a blue material that is normally used as an insulating material for buildings .. i bought mine it in a local building center, the price is fair,about 20 bucks for 1 square meter, as far as i can remember )
2. for the start, he only adumbrates the sructure of the rock by roughly cutting stripes out of the surface of the foam
3. later he will finish the structure with finer cuts using a scalpell. this picture gives you an outlook at what it will look like
4.he cuts away one side of the rocksocket to have room for a tomb he will add later.
5. he´s admitting that he´s a bit a lazy so he simply cuts the stairway that will lead to the tomb from foam, again he uses the 2cm blocks of styrodur
6. now the interesting part: the walls. every piece of wall is made separately
7. first he makes sketches on ply wood. for doors and windows he uses a template
8. now he cuts out the windows and doors. just cut from the edge trough the wood, it doesn\'t matter since you won\'t see the gap latter
9. now use the ply wood as a template for 6mm thick Selitron (again, thats expanded plastic slab, just like the styrodur, also used for insulating)
10. cut the Selitron in shape. use \"sawing\" movements for round shapes, for straight lines you can just pull the scalpell through it
11. now the bricks. use a pen and a ruler to draw lines on the selitron
12. here´s the trick: use a ball-pen or a blunt pen to press the shape of the bricks into the selitron with moderate pressure. you don´t want to cut the stuff, just create recesses
13. the result looks like this. you should do the \"imprinting\" twice to be sure the recesses are deep enough to be noticed
14. -17. to make the windows prettier he glues fly screen and cardboard
crossbars to the wood and the wood to the plastic. then just glue the wall on its place
18 - 22. curved walls are tricky, here´s his solution: klead and bend the plastic at the same time. the kleading makes the material denser,which in turn keeps it from breaking.
notice that while you can see the fingerprints from the kleading at the backside, the frontside is still pretty and smooth. once again cut the windows out and imprint the bricks. since wood is hard to bend, the round parts are made stonger by adding thick cardboard. he also cut crossbars in it.the guing is easier if you use fine sand paper to make the plastic rougher
23 - 27. to keep the wall from bending back to it´s original shape it´s fixed to a jar, cane or something similar with tape. let the glue dry. then rerun the recents with a pen for the same reason as before
okay it´s one o´clock in the night and i have to stop for now. if you like it and let me know and i\'ll do the second part tomorrow
good night
you know ..evertime i look at the team-toulouse website,i think to myself : \"why must all these great articles be in french \"
well, my day at university was a bit crappy and i feel like i have to do something usefull for a change, so here\'s the translation:
wolfgang\'s vampire castle:
1. he starts with cutting rocks out of the styrodur blocks thast are 2cm thick. it will be the socket of the castle (styrodur is a blue material that is normally used as an insulating material for buildings .. i bought mine it in a local building center, the price is fair,about 20 bucks for 1 square meter, as far as i can remember )
2. for the start, he only adumbrates the sructure of the rock by roughly cutting stripes out of the surface of the foam
3. later he will finish the structure with finer cuts using a scalpell. this picture gives you an outlook at what it will look like
4.he cuts away one side of the rocksocket to have room for a tomb he will add later.
5. he´s admitting that he´s a bit a lazy so he simply cuts the stairway that will lead to the tomb from foam, again he uses the 2cm blocks of styrodur
6. now the interesting part: the walls. every piece of wall is made separately
7. first he makes sketches on ply wood. for doors and windows he uses a template
8. now he cuts out the windows and doors. just cut from the edge trough the wood, it doesn\'t matter since you won\'t see the gap latter
9. now use the ply wood as a template for 6mm thick Selitron (again, thats expanded plastic slab, just like the styrodur, also used for insulating)
10. cut the Selitron in shape. use \"sawing\" movements for round shapes, for straight lines you can just pull the scalpell through it
11. now the bricks. use a pen and a ruler to draw lines on the selitron
12. here´s the trick: use a ball-pen or a blunt pen to press the shape of the bricks into the selitron with moderate pressure. you don´t want to cut the stuff, just create recesses
13. the result looks like this. you should do the \"imprinting\" twice to be sure the recesses are deep enough to be noticed
14. -17. to make the windows prettier he glues fly screen and cardboard
crossbars to the wood and the wood to the plastic. then just glue the wall on its place
18 - 22. curved walls are tricky, here´s his solution: klead and bend the plastic at the same time. the kleading makes the material denser,which in turn keeps it from breaking.
notice that while you can see the fingerprints from the kleading at the backside, the frontside is still pretty and smooth. once again cut the windows out and imprint the bricks. since wood is hard to bend, the round parts are made stonger by adding thick cardboard. he also cut crossbars in it.the guing is easier if you use fine sand paper to make the plastic rougher
23 - 27. to keep the wall from bending back to it´s original shape it´s fixed to a jar, cane or something similar with tape. let the glue dry. then rerun the recents with a pen for the same reason as before
okay it´s one o´clock in the night and i have to stop for now. if you like it and let me know and i\'ll do the second part tomorrow
good night
