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Here is the progress so far on my crawler course, building it for 1/24th, but the itty bitty Acsent32 and SCX30 are a blast on it too.
Basically put together a frame to fit 4ft X 8Ft 1/4" plywood, want to keep it light as possible for portability. Using a big hunk of mold making foam I've had laying around in my shop for years. As I've cut it up, able to use the all the pieces to build other parts, so hardly any waste. This foam is very dense, but still really lightweight and super strong.
Heavy pics ahead..
Frame and main mountain feature
Carving, gluing down, more carving
Wood ladder bridge thingy and a few foam trangles
Figured I should add a " Pride Rock" for those into Lion King. Cut a slot in both the rock and mountain and installed a 1/4" piece of plywood for unternal support
Thought it needed a balanced rock too. It does have internal supports as well. And for kicks, I ordered up a miniature Wile E Coyote figurine to put on top
Pretty much have all the obstacles complete, and happy with the layout so far. Next step is to coat it with synthetic stucco to keep weight down, and it will be very durable. I will paint details with flat paints with some sand mixed in, add some trees, moss, pebbles, etc. Should be sweet.
Basically put together a frame to fit 4ft X 8Ft 1/4" plywood, want to keep it light as possible for portability. Using a big hunk of mold making foam I've had laying around in my shop for years. As I've cut it up, able to use the all the pieces to build other parts, so hardly any waste. This foam is very dense, but still really lightweight and super strong.
Heavy pics ahead..
Frame and main mountain feature
Carving, gluing down, more carving
Wood ladder bridge thingy and a few foam trangles
Figured I should add a " Pride Rock" for those into Lion King. Cut a slot in both the rock and mountain and installed a 1/4" piece of plywood for unternal support
Thought it needed a balanced rock too. It does have internal supports as well. And for kicks, I ordered up a miniature Wile E Coyote figurine to put on top
Pretty much have all the obstacles complete, and happy with the layout so far. Next step is to coat it with synthetic stucco to keep weight down, and it will be very durable. I will paint details with flat paints with some sand mixed in, add some trees, moss, pebbles, etc. Should be sweet.
Using a flat elastomeric masonry paint. Went with a tanish red base to match the rocks out here in Western Colorado, I'll add in some flat earthy accent colors with airbrush or rattle cans. Used about 60 lbs of stucco patch over the foam, so all in with paint and build materials, probably going to wiegh around 90 lbs. Not too bad, and still very portable. Hoping to also come in at under $175 for the whole project, but granted I already had the foam and wood.
