Final Group construction 2

For the second session we started to shape the polystyrene so it would look like like our chosen space, the main part that needed the detail was the main column at the side of the steps so this was the part we had polystyrene on. We needed work in the detail of the bricks, the shaping at the top and all the angles of the column. Alot of the shaping and detail was done with sandpaper and rasps, this meant we could shape the structure quickly and give a good overall finish.

 

 

The polystyrene wasn't very thick in places once we started filing it down so we have to be careful that we didn't ruin the detail or lose parts when shaping. The polystyrene was stuck on with an adhesive called copydex which took a while to dry so we had to wait for this initially.We had to put in as much detail as possible at this stage so that when we started painting it we could add colours into to pick out some of the detail just by dding highlights rather than having to paint them in completely.

 

The last stage before painting we needed to add a plastic paint called idenden, this is used to make the polystyrene stronger so that it is not easily damaged and to make it look less like polystyrene to be able to give it the effect we need during painting. The only thing we found with the idenden was we didn't realise how much you needed to put on so we felt we lost some of the detail within our bricks, other than this i think it gave a good overall look and a good base to start painting.