Space 1999 Alpha Moonbase Diorama help needed

Hey Guys!

Your advice is great.  Thanks so much.

And Doog - that Hetzer diorama is mind blowing!

Rob

You could very easily fill this in with Celluclay, and it is perfectly safe. It will remain moldable for several hours afterward. You'll be able to patiently texture it exactly as the rest--even smooth, if you wish.

For a quick tutorial on how to use it, see here:

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Use the expanding foam with caution.  Some expanding foam will swell and shrink with a change in temperature.  If you get it in a can, from the hard ware store, buy the kind that goes around window and door frames.  I believe it is more stable.

Also, if you would like to make the layout of the moonbase more accurate, check this site.

http://www.space1999.net/moonbase99/technical_section.htm

Click on the image of the moonbase near the bottom of the page.  But, making it more accurate means chucking the vac parts and sculpting your own.

Good luck!

Wow! 

I've used a lot of the self expanding foam to close up rat holes on a brick wall outside.  The foam tends to take on a life of it's own and can become huge.

One would probably have to sand it down.  I'll see if I can find advice on the forum about working with it.

Thanks AJ and Big Duke!  I really appreciate all of the advice.  PicOodle worked well for my photos.

Both solutions seem great - resculpting the base and trying to fix the vaccuform.   I may try both to see which looks better.

for a free image site, I use www.picoodle.com

For the vacuform, if you want to use it, just take the excess vacuform stuff, or some scrap plastic, and put it udnerneath like butresses. 

Thanks for responding guys!  Would you fill in the concave underside with some sort of cement or just glue it to something solid and flat? Thanks for the epoxy tip.

Sorry that I don't have a bigger photo!  I've been trying, with no success, to get a free image site to host them.