Some color is happening!

I returned from my morning delivery and material run around 1pm. Doing Toronto runs always bag me out. I just want to have a nap when I get back!

When I got back, Jody and Anna had the mountain top all hard coated. We mixed in a dark grey latex to the durabond, to help with elasticity and adhesion. Looks pretty good for a base coat I think.

The girls also textured the base plate the mountain top sits on as well. Very little of this will be in frame, so we don't have to have a lot of detail to this part. Most of the detail will come from real gravel and rocks. No hard-coat on this stuff either, just painted foam.

I started the last files for the Sponge Bob set as soon as I got back as well. These ran for pretty much the rest of the day. Our Techno cnc worked through his lunch, and didn't take an afternoon break either, damn I love that guy!!

While I was out, I picked up a 24" styrofoam sphere that will hang on the set as the moon. This basically comes as 2 halves that you have to glue together. I used sprayfoam for this, taping the seams to keep the foam from pushing the halves apart. Before I glued them up, I placed a 4" disk inside, bolted to an eyelet that sticks out the top for hanging. A little overkill, but the moon crashing to earth would be a story passed down for hundreds of generations! This will get textured tomorrow, and painted(I hope)

This was the disaster area at 7 pm! I've luckily rented the neighbors shop for the weekend, so we will have a place to store all these pieces until we load them up Monday at 10am for their trip to the Studio.
The next couple of days is going to be interesting I think!
8)
JWO