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| In this continuing series, Joe Aquino tellss us how he built walls and created grass in his Dragon's Lair. Check out his other articles on guard rail and tree building. Visit Joe's Dragon site, too. | ||||||||||||||||
| Beautiful detail of overpasses | ||||||||||||||||
| Shows the two TYCO Trucks entering the canyon. For the bridge I cut a piece of 1/4" plywood the shape of the track adding a 3/4" to each side. The concrete walls are made from rubber base molding I cut and sanded to shape. Then I hot glued them to the plywood, fastening them flush with it's edge. Inside the canyon, the wall is made from light weight spackle and hand carved while still wet. (I'll be doing the other side soon) A wire brush was used to carve the terrain in wet spackle. | ||||||||||||||||
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| Nice grass and wall detail | ||||||||||||||||
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| Looking over the Dragons tail at the castle (below). I just put the grass down and painted the castle, the area left of the castle will be turned into the Batcave. For the grass I choose to use the Woodlands med. green turf as my base coat. I followed that up with some weeds turf scattered around, then locked it down with a thinned white glue that was sprayed on. I will be adding shrubs and smaller tree's, rocks, etc., later on. | ||||||||||||||||
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| Into the Dragon's Tail | ||||||||||||||||
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