Well, there are times when you are trying to visualize something to build and it is not quite coming together. Previously, I was planning to take my skull decoration and make a skull spire of rock.
I did a rough sketch and at first I thought it was decent for a starting point, the sketch on the right of the paper. The spire of rock was going to have a spiraling staircase from the top to the bottom of the rock.
Then to the left I sketched a tower with the skull near the top of the structure. Just for fun of course and I trashed the tower idea.
I was stacking some foam together with my skull decoration, pictured to the left, for a visual of a skull spire before carving. As I mentioned earlier a stair well would spiral from the top to the base. After looking at my 28 mm miniature for scale and the stack, which was not nearly high enough, it was evident I needed more material for this to work.
I realized that this spire was going to be enormous. It was probably going to be three feet tall when I was done. When you are going to sculpt extruded polystyrene or colored insulation foam, that is a lot of foam to go through with scraps left over.
So, after some careful thought I did not scrap the project totally. Instead, I decided to make the skull decoration as part of a dungeon entrance, carved into a hillside.
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