darkSpyro

Started out by laying out the figs on a piece of foam and cutting a circle large enough to fit all five.

Then cut bits of foam to piece together a second layer to build a platform.



Continued to cut pieces of foam to piece together layers





Once I'm happy with the spacing and heights of the platform I texture the foam and shape it to look like rocks. To texture it, I heat up a butcher knife and let the heat do most of the work for me



I then added some clay to the display where the lava will flow. Afterward I draped the clay with glue to create a smooth looking lava flow.



Base coat of white paint across the whole display. Why? Because when we paint the whole thing red to get the Lava effect going, the white base coat will make the red brighter.




TO BE CONTINUED

This looks awesome so far

come the 10th i will be giving this a shot

really appreciate the walk thru. My kiddos will be wanting to do this, I'm sure. Great start. Can't wait for pics.

this is awesome!

super cool of you to post all this
thank you

Thanks for the positive feedback, its much appreciated.

Next step - Paint the whole thing red



Next add black. Only paint lightly over high surfaces so the deep parts still show red.



layer on orange and then yellow to the high points of the lava flow to create the heat effect.





That's pretty much it. I will be adding an island to the bottom of this display, but thats just a matter of cutting out the foam circles, gluing them together and weathering (sort of like the lava rocks)

I think it would be pretty boring to show in pics, but I will if a few people (3 or more) ask for it.

That looks awesome. My one suggestion just to keep it looking clean on the forum would be to just edit your original post and add the new pictures there so you have a true one post of the whole process. Of course with this one its not to bad as its only done in two inputs but if you do more just a suggestion that way people don't have to go hunting through the pages to find the pictures of the process. In case you were unaware of how to do this, just look at your original post and at the bottom right there is options. for us its reply, quote and so on. but for you there will be one that says edit. just click that and it will bring all your original post up and you can add tot he bottom. it will keep it in its original place in the thread order but update the info on it. so your whole project pics will be there. I myself would love to see more pics as you go through doing other islands, if you do. I really enjoyed looking at the pictures. It helps us non creative people see wonderful concepts and ideas as they are being produced.

I would like to see. Before I try anything I like having a comfortable amount of knowledge

I would like to see more. This is just Awesome! Thanks for all that you are doing.....