Building a Volcano - part 4

So quite a big update on the Volcano.
The previous post for this build can be found here

http://shedwars.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/building-volcano-part-3.html

So first up I had to finish cladding this beast. In the end I used two whole tubes of cork bark. Total cost about £18.

You can see in the picture below I am trying to step the volcano to allow for at least some playability

Eventually with all the cork bark fixed I could fill and cover the exposed polystyrene areas. I added black acrylic paint to the filler to give it a grey colour.

I left one small area of the base exposed for a temple entrance...

I needed to build the crown of the volcano, scratching my head for ideas I game up with this option.

A circle of hardboard (roughly the size of the summit)...

then I fixed a piece of polystyrene on top with adhesive and one dry used the trusty foam cutting jig to make the crown.

This was then glued to the summit. I began playing around with some lighting affects

Whilst waiting for the frown to dry I glued in the temple entrance at the bottom of the mountain. This is an Egyptian tomb entrance sourced from Scotia Grendel - link below

http://www.scotiagrendel.com/Products/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=227_40&products_id=2649

The entrance was then built up using filler and odd pieces of cork.

Elsewhere I finished off the filling around the rest of the mountain. Black paint was added to the white filler hence the grey effect.

I then turned my attention to the summit and built this up with filler.

Still loads more to go ...

Part 5 can be found here

http://shedwars.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/building-volcano-part-5.html