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Cobra Lab Diorama
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12-23-2009, 02:00 PM
Recoil84
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Durham, NC
Posts: 278
My latest effort to build decent looking displays for my figures: the COBRA LAB.
I was trying to create a glossy black floor and I sort of blundered into a technique that worked pretty well:
-spraypaint a piece of corrugated cardboard with gloss black paint
-cover with parallel strips of clear packing tape
-rub over the tape with something hard (like a credit card or plastic tool handle). This makes the corrugation somewhat visible and gives the floor sort of a tiled effect
The rest was pretty simple: cardboard, foamcore, glue, and paint.
Graphics for the walls and the print-and-fold Cobra crates came from
Joedios.com
and were printed on a color laser printer
The gas tanks are 2 empty CO2 canisters from a bike pump,
The little plastic fins are missile racks from a TRU F-22 (I customized the jet to be in "stealth mode" with missiles stored internally so I didn't need the racks)
The ladder and railings are made out of wooden kabob skewers and elmer's glue
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