Re: Presenting my Hot Toys Stark Mansion
SUNDAY UPDATE
I concentrated on the kitchenette area this week. I wanted to accessorize it to look like this scene from IM2
And I think I did a pretty good job
The appliances, dish rack and dishes are all Barbie accessories that I bought pretty cheap and then painted to the have the look of the items in Tony’s kitchenette. The knife is from my Amber Figure and I have some limes on order but they could take a while to get here. The liquor bottles are easy to find, I just have to figure out which brands I want but the pill bottles are going to be a chore. They are expensive and not very realistic. I may end up making those myself.
I know this isn’t a perfect copy of but it’s close enough for me.
I wanted to add some ceiling lights in this area and didn’t really know what type I wanted to use and then I noticed the set designers figured it out for me. As you can see there is a square soffit with 4 can lights
This is what I came up with. I built and painted a soffit and used 4 LED panels that cost less the $1 a piece.
As you can see in the first picture it provides a very natural looking illumination to that area, not too bright and the light washes the area just as it would in a room.
The more I work with this, the more I realize that if you use multiple scaled down multiple light sources the environment looks a lot more natural.
The next area I plan to work on is the Armor Assembly Bay which is going to have some very interesting features
Beautiful work. I love all the little details you've put into it. So cool!
Thanks. Its the little details that makes this fun for me. Sometimes I make them, some times I hunt them down on the net but either way it's like a mini win when I get something new. F
or example, the Jukebox was a little bit of a challenge. I could find a variety of them but they were all too small, then I thought maybe some company made an clock of radio that looked like a juke box and that's when I found a couple "vintage" British radios on eBay and was able to get one for about $10.
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