Building a House

For this one your going to need a little backstory. When I went to college, I originally was into Architecture (or Archi-torture if you will), and lasted over a year in the program.  I eventually dropped out, but over that year I spent a good deal of money on things architect students use on a regular basis.  Things like Exacto-Knifes, Foam-board and Chip-board, as well as a good bit of sketch paper, drawing paper, and what-not.

One year wasn't nearly enough to dwindle any of my supplies, so as I packed up, I had two great big bags of model-materials stashed away in the garage for years.  Some things translate easy to general arts, so the pens, pencils, coloring supplies I still use and sit in my over-sized Godot mug.  The other, much larger materials sat and sat and sat.

Until one day, I decided to build a house- no, a CHURCH! yes yes folk, think back, long long ago when you actually watched or read Trigun, Nicholas D. Wolfwood had more tools in his arsenal than just the (Cross)-Punisher,  pair of nickel plated handguns, and motorcycle with passenger pod.  No he also has the infamous Portable Confessional! How do you make money as a wandering priest?! You charge pocket-change to wear a church-shaped box and confess to the only priest around!



So thats what I have here.  Slowly but surely I'm making a show out of building a Portable Confessional from old Architecture model materials, and you get a front row seat!  Enjoy!

Foam-Core board cut and mounted.  And mind you, to get everything square, I had to make use of these little pins.  They did a nice job of holding things in place as I hot-glued everything together piece by piece.  Mind you, you can't see it in this shot, but I did make one error.  Somewhere in my math I changed the angle of the 'roof' and corrected it for the front and back, but not the sides.  Being too lazy to fix them, I just argue that the half-inch gap between the sides and the roof is there to keep anyone's long hair from getting suctioned out of control when taking off the portable confessional.

Got out some latex paint and 'thought' I had some dark blue paint, but no, just black, gray and clear (clear is actually enamel paint).  But whats the big deal, black or dark blue, it still dark enough to be the roof.  I'm using the tiny little portable confessional that the Wolfwood figure has as a refrence.  It's tinsy-weensy.

Hot-glued in the foam-core cross on top and began measuring and sketching in the front stained glass in pencil.

There we go, on colored and complete Portable Confessional for use in the near future.  I went back after looking at these pictures and used some gray-tones to subtlely enhance the 'columns' around the stained-glass.  If it looks a little splotchy, thats cause it's trying to imitate stained-glass.  We'll find out how good it works this weekend.  I mean after all, I only spent.. say, four hours working on it?

Now I've got to go pay off some of my debts to society, so untill this weekend, I am and shall-forever be That Wolfwood Guy, Signing Off.