So hey! Welcome to the second part of the prop/ set build of my project! I'm not going to go through too much and I'm not going to show the actual final images of some of the props as if I do you'll see too much of the final thing - and it's not time for that just yet!
The Lamp!
Okay, so it's a little bit cheeky but I was running out of time so I brought this polystyrene piece that was shaped like a lamp. It was the perfect size and shape for my set and working with it would save me so much time! If you can find something that would work better for you than if you were to make it yourself, I say by all means go for the easy option, you'll save yourself a lot of stress and time by doing so!
So I took the polystyrene lamp and cut out the centre-ish part using my trusty Stanley Knife - this is actually a second lamp as I got a little too knife happy with the first one! I then painted it red using acrylic paint. I found that painting straight on to the polystyrene surface just left the paint flaking off and patchy, so to stop that I sprayed the whole thing with Spray Mount first, which seemed to do the trick!
This isn't the final image, for that I've painted more detail on it and added a tiny bulb inside. I've also added a chain to the top so that it can hang from the side of the hut. I'll show you that when I've shown you everything else first!
Life Preserve Rings!
Okay, again a little bit cheeky but I brought these polystyrene rings to use for my Life Rings! (I brought all the polystyrene products from a shop in Cardiff called Inkspot if you were wondering). I'd been searching for ages for something to use for these rings, my first thoughts were to use some plastic rings off one of those children's ring stacking toys but I couldn't find any! Anywhere! So when I found these rings I was happy to say the least. I then cut out strips of red Funky Foam and wrapped then around the two rings and glued them in place.
I made some hook type things from these little gold jewellery parts and pushed then in to the tops of the red parts of the rings to hold the 'ropes' in place. The 'rope' is just some string that I got to add a bit more detail to the rings.
The Fishing Rod!
I think the fishing rod is probably one of my favourite props. I made it by using a balsa wood rod, cut to the right size, a bobby thread, and some Funky Foam. To create the basic shape I wrapped and glued a strip of Funky Foam to the bottom of the pole and glued in a small piece of the balsa wood rod in to it for the thread to slip on to. The toilet roll tube in the photo is slightly misleading as I used the Funky foam to wrap around the bottom of the pole instead of that in the end, though I did try it will the roll first but it just didn't work.
When that was all done I painted the whole thing in different shades of brown acrylic paint and drew on some details. I glued on a small card disk to the end of the small pole holding the thread, once it was slotted in place, to stop it slipping off. It also means the tread can spin freely so it sort of is an actual working fishing rod (ish!).
This isn't the final look of the fishing rod, I've also added a golden coloured handle to the thread/ wheel part and then similar golden hooks to the ones on the life rings, up the fishing rod itself for the string to thread through. I also tied on a little fishing hook to the end of the string, which was just a piece of metal that I bent in to shape.
Sorry for the lack of final pictures, I only seem to have them whilst they're apart of the final set, and I don't want to be revealing that just yet! Thanks for taking a look though! More to come soon!
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