Mosslanda: Defiance - Deserved day off…

I can’t remember the last time I took a day off and just spent it on myself. Well, I can, it would have been last Christmas. Yesterday I woke up and decided I needed a break and had a lovely day pottering about, taking the dog for a few walks and working on Defiance…

Defiance has been a real focus / distraction in recent weeks. Not much time goes by without a post or two about work on one element or another. Yet, here, in these photos, you could be forgiven for thinking we’re nearly finished - such is the transformation some focused energy spent adding details has made…

Largely styrene, my preferred material for sketching in 3D, even in N. Pipe runs, grills, conduits and doors all added and random details added. Where photos were possible, guided by reality. Where not, just some artistic composition.

This scene, this prototype has long held my attention thanks in part to its Santa Fe GPs (and the Gettysburg red GP9) - they were the gateway, but this prototype in Ohio offers the perfect ‘industrial’ Mosslanda setting and being guided by memory of photographs and video, of the feelings and emotions that they evoked is proving to be a powerful medicine.

So colour next - and a backscene / sky. I’m thinking a nice blue to contrast with the off white structures but I’m not sure what I have ‘in stock’ so we will see what is possible, using materials to hand. For now though, a few moments to enjoy what has emerged from those initial sketches - and a commitment to finish this in the next week or so, before I’m distracted by a Christmas project - more on that at the weekend.

Until next time more soon… 

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