Moving inside the Sprue Hut, the broken corner is not being overcome with plants (made using a technique I found on the internet).
Further inside we find a table and small bench. A suspicious stain is accompanied by some bottles.
A broken pot or vase lies on the ground.
While it is called the Sprue Hut, it's not all plastic sprue.
The tattered remains of an awning is made from some climbing tape.
The base is a CD covered in tissue/PVA. Sprinkled with dried paint/etc. and the shattered pot is select pieces of dried paint.
The roof is sheets of card with putty rivets.
Everything else is sprue.
More views of the Sprue hut.
With some moody lighting.
Inside the wood of the hut still looks fairly fresh, but the outside is sun-bleached grey.
As part of a friendly competition to use recycled materials to build a piece of terrain, I decided to make as much of this hut from plastic sprue.
Other than the base (a CD sprinkled with dried paint) and the roof (pieces of card), everything is carved from sprue:
The wood,
The metal ladder,
The bottles,
and even the plants.
All sprue for the Sprue Hut.
To contrast with the bare interior of the Sprue Hut, I added some flowers around the outside for colour.
Again, made from sprue. This time the flared sprue carving was glued atop a rod.
In the broken corner of the Sprue Hut is a collection of plants growing around the remains.
And yes, they are all made from sprue. Using a tutorial I found on the internet.
Some moody shots of the Sprue hut.
Yes, even the table and bottles are carved from sprue.
Some views of the roof of the Sprue hut.
While the frame is indeed Sprue, the sheet metal of the roof is made from card and the rivets are epoxy putty (before I switched to plastic rod).
And a bonus picture showing the "first" cut for the project and the finished piece.
More angles of my Sprue hut.
These show the broken corner of the hut.
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Dr H