07-29-2010, 12:16 AM
Hold the phone!!!
I probably need to roll back the thread to discover what material you are using for those concrete "ex-footers" but as I sat here looking at the pictures ... right ... the pictures
:needpics:
I got really close to the screen and put my glasses on top of my head ... and really looked at the picture ...
... I bet you could get that look if you used a piece of white foam "bead board" and encased it sheet styrene with the beadboard slightly hanging out of the bottom. Make the styrene joints very tight, softening the mating edges up using copius quantities of Plastruct Plastic Weld or toluol (lacquer thinner) and working with one joint at a time, soften and press together. If you've done it correctly, you'll get a little "ooze"squeeze out at the joint. Let it harden, totally. You can do another joint in about ten or fiffteen minutes if you are careful (yeah, yeah ... I mean the one where two pieces of styrene come together to be "welded" together.) When it is fully hardened, scrape or file the "ooze" off and the seam will have disappeared, yielding a nice smooth, seamless corner. When you've gotten the "box" completed, "Chew up" the edges with a square and rat tail jewelers' file and then slide the hunk of white beadboead, with the bottom edge "roughed up" with a fork or something to pick at the beads and make them totally uneven and then paint and weather with water based paints.
Does that sound at all like it might do the job ... or have I stayed up too late again? I used to do some of my most creative problem solving in the middle of the night when I was having trouble focusing my eyes on what I was doing because I was so thoroughly exhausted.
You know what I mean by beadboard, right? That white stuff that seems to be made from compressed little white styrofoam beads. You can most likely get it in a craft store or a building supply.
I probably need to roll back the thread to discover what material you are using for those concrete "ex-footers" but as I sat here looking at the pictures ... right ... the pictures
:needpics:
I got really close to the screen and put my glasses on top of my head ... and really looked at the picture ...
... I bet you could get that look if you used a piece of white foam "bead board" and encased it sheet styrene with the beadboard slightly hanging out of the bottom. Make the styrene joints very tight, softening the mating edges up using copius quantities of Plastruct Plastic Weld or toluol (lacquer thinner) and working with one joint at a time, soften and press together. If you've done it correctly, you'll get a little "ooze"squeeze out at the joint. Let it harden, totally. You can do another joint in about ten or fiffteen minutes if you are careful (yeah, yeah ... I mean the one where two pieces of styrene come together to be "welded" together.) When it is fully hardened, scrape or file the "ooze" off and the seam will have disappeared, yielding a nice smooth, seamless corner. When you've gotten the "box" completed, "Chew up" the edges with a square and rat tail jewelers' file and then slide the hunk of white beadboead, with the bottom edge "roughed up" with a fork or something to pick at the beads and make them totally uneven and then paint and weather with water based paints.
Does that sound at all like it might do the job ... or have I stayed up too late again? I used to do some of my most creative problem solving in the middle of the night when I was having trouble focusing my eyes on what I was doing because I was so thoroughly exhausted.
You know what I mean by beadboard, right? That white stuff that seems to be made from compressed little white styrofoam beads. You can most likely get it in a craft store or a building supply.
biL
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Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln