The Hills

Now that the basic town setting is complete I've started construction on the second of our sets, the park. The park will feature two hills one of which should be far more prominent than the other. This kind of deformed balance is a frequent theme in Tim Burton's settings, For example the spiral hill in The Nightmare Before Christmas. To show the isolation of the setting there will be one tree and a bench on the larger of the two hills.

Here is my final design for it:

On Friday I drew out the base of the hill on a piece of MDF. I then created the hill shape by stapling chicken wire to the wood and shaping the hill accordingly.After stuffing the shape with newspaper I covered the wire frame in Modrock to solidify the shape and provide a base which can be painted and support the models that will be placed on it. 

Pictures of my progress are shown below:

Wire frame stuffed with newspaper

The hill after being coated in Modrock