- Malachi Brown(Malachi)United States
Hermitage
TN
It's turtles all the way down.
“Questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for oneself.”
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Another shortcoming of my copy of Pandemic is that the research stations are the same basic shape as Power Grid or Settlers houses, but they're way too long. I decided to make my own version of them out of polymer clay that would be smaller and match the theme better.
I won't go over tools and materials in this post, but if you want to know more about what I use and how I do my work, check out my other posts:
* polymer clay track markers for Age of Steam
* polymer clay cubes for Pandemic
* polymer clay Code 777 postmortem
My original idea was to create a modern looking glass building with a helipad and maybe a satellite dish. After a little bit of experimentation, I realized that the satellite dish would be too difficult and tedious to make at the right scale, so I scrapped that idea. I also thought about making them kind of cartoony and distorted but I decided that rectangular would be more realistic and simpler.
The first set I made were just black rectangular prisms that I applied thin strips of a blue glittery clay to in an attempt to emulate the appearance of glass. I then tried to create a helipad design. The descriptions I found indicated a white circle with a white cross inside and a red "H" on that, but at the size I was working with, that was too small to be reasonable and I didn't want to make a complex cane like that just for a half dozen little buildings.
v1.0
For my second attempt, I mixed some white and black clay to make gray clay to simulate concrete and I did layers of clay (on the thickest setting of my pasta machine) alternating the gray and the glitter blue. I decided to just skip the additional detail of the helipad, although I could go back and add that later... I'm just not sure it's really worth the additional effort.
v2.0
I guess next I should make better/smaller player pawns...
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