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In my position as a professional model maker at a school of architecture, I thought it might be interesting to try out some of this new material that has caused some discussion on the SFSFW mailing list. I emailed the company, and they sent out a promotional pack to me.
My initial impressions: the material has a consistency that is best described as stiff rubber. This seemed like a very strange texture to build models in, but after playing around with it for a while I must say I am fairly impressed. There are several aspects that will be of interest to everyone and I will try to cover everything as I run through the construction of the model that follows.
The Walk Through: so let’s get straight into it with some photos followed by my comments.
1. The promotional pack came with a mixed selection of the different types of sheets, one Fortress Stone Wall sheet, one sheet each of the plain 0.6, 2 and 3mm sheets and several sets of round and square section strips.
The sheets are 200mm by 120mm.
2. Having a fairly limited supply of the material to hand I wanted to make a building that tested the various properties of the material, but was also a finished piece in itself.
I decided some kind of watchtower built on top of a ruin would be the simplest way
to go so I took the Fortress Stone sheet and cut a section off that I could bend
around a tube, to represent either a large chimney or a round-
Test Model built with Reddiprene38
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