Monday, April 12, 2010

Mining colony

Hi, I finally started with some terrain for my "chaos on the red planet" project. I decided to build a mining colony colonised by dwarves and other creatures from outer galaxy are testing their luck, a bit similiar to the great Californian goldrush in the West.

The colony's bar (name not found yet) it's here were the miners gather after an exhausting day of mining. They gamble into the night and drink the bars own brewed beer. The beertank on the roof is also used as watchtower, you can never be too careful on the red planet!


The back of the bar constructed from lollypopsticks, cartonboard, corrugated cartonboard and bits and pieces.


The front of the bar with the beertank situated on the rooftop with beer flowing directly into the cafe!

In an earlier post I told about a shed with ventilationvans now I will tell a bit more about this building. The ventilations vans are used by the miners to supply enought new air into the miningshaft of which are 750 meters deep! In case of attack this building is the first to protect because if the vans are destroyed all the miners deeper than 450 meters are doomed to die as they can't escape the shafts fast enought.


The back of the ventilation shed. The entire shed is build around a plastic candy box covered with corrugated cartonboard, lollypopsticks and canvass.


The front of the shed with an alarmbell on the roof, ready to be used in case of scavengers and other creatures from the depths.



A small mill I've build to supply the colony with electricity, this mill is constructed from bits and pieces like plasticcard, styloparts, wheels, ...

Greets,