Film Set: Cornelisz's Studio, In the Past

This here is the set we've been building; it is the painter's (Cornelisz's) studio, perched upon a hill, looking ominous. Alot of the action in the story takes place within the studio, which will be another set altogether - this set will be seen relatively briefly, mostly in 'establishing shot' type material. I say 'in the past' in the heading because the narrator, now aged, relates events that have already transpired. At the time of this writing we've almost covered the whole hill with foliage, making the above image out of date. Newer pictures will follow soon. The scale is 1:7-point-something, or a 6' high figure in real life would be 10" high in our set. This means that the set is quite large, and heavy. And expensive.

The house is made of:

Hill: 2x4 four frame covered with steel mesh, plaster, and now a whole whack of moss.

House: an MDF frame detailed with kiln-dried fir and plaster. The roof is made of little fir shingles, all glued individually to an MDF frame.

The above picture contains no proper lighting; it's it looks under the room lights, with a little Photoshopping and a sky thrown in. This excites us, as the sets for our first two movies looked like ass until we lighted the crap out of them. So far, we've spent about thirty full days building the thing, and anticipate about five more to finish it off.