Set Details - No Mans Land

For the No Mans Land set, everyone made a crater out of plasticine on a wooden board, these were to be vacuum formed, holes were then drilled around the inside and outside edges which allows the air to be sucked out around the crater. Once these were vacuum formed in plastic we were left with a replica of the original sculpt. These were then cut out from the plastic sheets and covered in white texture paint.

Myself and Rob started making the two big trees that would be in the for ground of the set, we started with two wooden basses, each with a hole drilled in the centre, we glued some thick wire into these holes. We then padded out the bottoms of the trunks with tin foil, this was then covered in plasticine, branches were added on and the trees built up. 

We then painted the trees with PVA glue to seal them and then sprayed them white.

The group designed tree silhouettes on paper, which Kane put into illustrator and cut out on the laser cutter, we also did ruined buildings in the same way. 

I then cut out lots of small triangles which rob glues to the back of each tree, stump and ruin. These allowed the 2D cut outs to stand up. We also made all these cut outs in various sizes to create a false perspective, the smaller one going at the back and getting larger the further forward they come.