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[Thanh Thuy]

Hello tout le monde!

Direct from my imagination:
To illustrate my sceneries in Indochina or Vietnam wargames, here is a temple made of cardboard from cookies package and painted.
Pillars are wooden ones, and doors from rhodoid.





I painted rhodoid back and scratched them on fresh paint to give effect of bamboo curtains.



The courtyard is surrounded by a card wall covered with brick frames from HO railway's modelling, and the soil is made of finest grey sandpaper with imitation of grass lines to give stone-tiles'effects. It's put on a cork sheet.
The statues are from key-rings!







I made a set of different vietnamese buildings (inspired from..).

Will be next posts.

Bye ,

Thanh Thuy.

[BARX2]

That's really beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

[lehcyfer]

Very ingenious. The tiles from delaminated cardboard?

EDIT: ahh, from a cookies - they come without outside layer.

Funny I never thought of that...

[Thanh Thuy]

Originally Posted by lehcyfer

Very ingenious. The tiles from delaminated cardboard?

EDIT: ahh, from a cookies - they come without outside layer.

Funny I never thought of that...

The only problem is to avoid painting with too much water : it could destroy the paper, which is very thick.
And if not enough water, you need to brush much more to have a good-looking result (it is tedious!).

Now, I have some practise and I don't do any mess!...but when I began...:( I had to eat a lot of cookies, to catch a lot of cardboard!:D

Bye.

thanh Thuy.

[cdavenport]

Very clever. To protect the paper from water, spray it with clear flat acrylic paint.