For this 10×10 diorama project, I wanted to challenge myself and build the famous Mystery Shack as featured in Alex Hirsch’s cartoon series Gravity Falls. The cabin was built using clapboard sheet styrene, and all of the detail parts were 3D printed. The roof shingles were made using brown paper, and the spruce trees were a combination of bamboo skewers, florist wire, and ground foam. The interdimensional portal was built using a variety of 3D printed parts and acetate sheet stock. Twelve volt LEDs were embedded in glue gun-filled cylinders and tinted using translucent blue sandwich container lids to created the glowing transporter beams. The entire model was painted with inexpensive acrylic paints and weathered with an India ink isopropyl alcohol wash.
The project took approximately two weeks to complete and was a lot of fun to build.
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