Major Earthworks Complete

The mountains, complete

I’m back, more or less! I hope all had a great winter holiday.

As you can see, plastering is now 100% complete. A few final comments on the plastering process: Some things I have learned. Bare plaster soaks up acrylic paint, and mixes with it. Painting plaster mountains requires that, [...]

The American Who Went Up a Hill…

…but Came Down a Mountain. Nope, too long to have the right wittiness about it. I’ll keep on tryin’ though.

I couldn’t find any more RFTs, so I reverted to that old standby, Student Life (warning: PDF linkage). At a total of two sheets per issue, it took larcenous numbers to complete the job, [...]

The Mountains Gain Flesh

The time has come to begin filling in the skeleton with newspaper flesh. As you can see from the photo (sorry about the poor quality! Had to use my laptop’s webcam), I’ve added some more foamcore buttressing so that the topography of the two layout halves will match precisely. Kashirigi suggests making little [...]