As already said, I wanted to create a scene that is different from what I did before, so I decided that this time it will be an indoor-scenario, taking place in a sort of abandoned space station.
Therefore, I started to build this hexagonal structure; it is called The Hexagon:
Three of the walls are fixed for stability; the other three can be removed for taking pictures. But of course it cannot be so neat and tidy, there has to be derelict equipment, sci-fi gear, strange machines etc. inside. Here is some of the stuff to be placed inside The Hexagon:
And The Hexagon has a movable door that can open and close, which will give rise to some veeery dynamic and dramatic effects in the yet-to-come movie:
(Sorry for the picture out of focus).
But then I realized that this door must lead to somewhere, there has to be some exterior room next to The Hexagon. So I hastily created another structure, which is a long tunnel and is officially called The Tunnel:
At this time I began to be really concerned that the project is getting out of hands somehow.
And actually it got worse: After I had obtained all the figures and accessories and started work on The Hexagon and The Tunnel, I remembered that there were those two Space Battles sets by Dark Dream Studios in 1/72 scale. Now I couldn’t ignore them, but I couldn’t integrate them in a reasonable way in the existing 32 mm scale scenario either.
So I decided to build two separate and independent dioramas, which finally – i.e. in the movie – have to be integrated into the story. These are the
Mystery Island and
Planet of Deserts scenes which I have already finished last year.
The latest twist of the story of this project was then that I felt I would need some exterior shots of the abandoned space station, too. The result is what you see in the first post of this thread.
And now the *only* steps that remain are to paint and assemble this huge heap of extraterrestrial crap somehow…