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<td>Joshua Qualtieri made this castle using cardboard and textured
paint. It is a quick and effective alternative to the modular
castle project, and a superb maiden TerraGenesis project from
Joshua.</td>
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Materials
# One really big moving box
# A couple of cereal boxes
# 2 1/16" balsa wood sheets(about 6" x 36")
# lots of PVA glue
# Textured paint
# One piece of foamboard
Method
I started out intending to build the whole castle out of scraps,
but realized I needed balsa. I figured that since I was going to be
buying things anyhow that I might as well get textured paint.
I could have got the same effect as textured paint using sand and
PVA glue, but hey, I live in the middle of the city, sand is hard to
come by.
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<td>I started by making all of the walls and towers and the
gatehouse out of heavy cardboard, each wall is two layers of
cardboard thick. I then cut up a cereal box into 1cm by 2cm
rectangles and glued them randomly onto the walls and towers to
simulate bricks(this doesn't come through in the photos)</td>
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I then filled the edges of the cardboard with wood putty, which I
smoothed out with some sand paper when dry. After that I covered
everything in a heavy layer of textured paint. Sprayed it grey and
then drybrushed white.
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<td>If I had had more time than I actually had to work on this, I
would have drybrushed in progressively lighter shades of grey,
but the single pass of white actually looks decent.</td>
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<td>The timbers on the buildings, ladders and tower tops are just
strips of balsa painted in brown ink and a black wash. The wall
walks are light brown with a black wash(I ran out of brown
ink!). The buildings themselves are made out of thin card and a
little foamboard on the inside to strengthen the corners.</td>
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Finally I glued everything to the foamboard base and flocked it
Total time in the project from start to finish is only about 12-14
hours, and it came out much better than I had thought it would for
having such a short time to work on it.