I believe that Rosy and I did a good job on our oral as we are happy with the speech we wrote, both tried to speak clearly and we had a decent PowerPoint that matched our speech. Some improvements that I believe we could have improved on is that we could of had more slides on our PowerPoint so that the audience had more to look at and maybe have gotten more information on our resort. We also felt that the speech might have gone a little overtime. My personal performance I think was pretty good but I did stumble on a few words. I also talked rather fast. However, we had a great response from the class as people were involved in what we were saying and asked a few questions at the end.
I thought Ally and Bridget's presentation was really good as they had an interesting and informative speech with a PowerPoint that included really cool and interesting pictures of their resort
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Our Finished Product - Pictures
An overview of our finished model
Close up of the waterfall and waterwheel
Whole view of the lake and waterfall with the houses to the side
Monday, April 29, 2013
Reflection
Creating the lake and waterfall
Rosy and I are extremely happy with the way the water for our resort model turned out. After we had finished both the homes, mountain and all of the other landscape extras, we then finished off with applying the water features. We created the water by mixing a lot of pure glue with some small drops of blue paint. The more blue paint you added, the darker the water would become. We made the lake a light blue and poured it into the spot that the router made. We then made a darker blue for the waterfall. To make the waterfall was realistic as possible, we started at the small dint in the mountain where the waterfall started and just let it pour naturally over the edge of the mountain and into the lake below. Thankfully nothing went wrong and to be honest, Rosy and I thought it looked really amazing and that it was one of our models best features. To finish it off we main the water wheel with bits and pieces we could find in the work shop and stuck that into position just where the water starts falling down the mountain. With both elements together, our resort looks incredible!
Rosy and I are extremely happy with the way the water for our resort model turned out. After we had finished both the homes, mountain and all of the other landscape extras, we then finished off with applying the water features. We created the water by mixing a lot of pure glue with some small drops of blue paint. The more blue paint you added, the darker the water would become. We made the lake a light blue and poured it into the spot that the router made. We then made a darker blue for the waterfall. To make the waterfall was realistic as possible, we started at the small dint in the mountain where the waterfall started and just let it pour naturally over the edge of the mountain and into the lake below. Thankfully nothing went wrong and to be honest, Rosy and I thought it looked really amazing and that it was one of our models best features. To finish it off we main the water wheel with bits and pieces we could find in the work shop and stuck that into position just where the water starts falling down the mountain. With both elements together, our resort looks incredible!
Water Wheel type we wanted to use
Picture of a similar Water Wheel
Reflection
Creating the houses
While I was doing more of the landscape for our resort, Rosy mostly built the homes, and we are both very happy with the way they turned out. What we did first was evaluate our house designers that we drew in planning and discussed what we could actually make with the materials we had. We went with just using plain cardboard as the plain white really captured the modern style we were trying to achieve, and also because it was the easiest material to make them with. We first measured out all of the sides of the houses and while I cut all of the pieces out, rosy would hot glue them together. Unfortunately this process didn't go as smoothly as planned as I managed to cut myself with the Stanley Knife I was using, nearly faint, and had to have it wrapped up for more than two weeks to let the cut heal. Because of the accident, Rosy kindly suggested that I should leave the cutting for her to do while I go off and start on the landscape for the model. I thought that was a good idea as we could get more done that way and to be honest, I don't think I was going to go near a Stanley Knife for a little while. At least until the cut healed. But in the end Rosy did a fantastic job with the homes and they look great on top of the mountain.
While I was doing more of the landscape for our resort, Rosy mostly built the homes, and we are both very happy with the way they turned out. What we did first was evaluate our house designers that we drew in planning and discussed what we could actually make with the materials we had. We went with just using plain cardboard as the plain white really captured the modern style we were trying to achieve, and also because it was the easiest material to make them with. We first measured out all of the sides of the houses and while I cut all of the pieces out, rosy would hot glue them together. Unfortunately this process didn't go as smoothly as planned as I managed to cut myself with the Stanley Knife I was using, nearly faint, and had to have it wrapped up for more than two weeks to let the cut heal. Because of the accident, Rosy kindly suggested that I should leave the cutting for her to do while I go off and start on the landscape for the model. I thought that was a good idea as we could get more done that way and to be honest, I don't think I was going to go near a Stanley Knife for a little while. At least until the cut healed. But in the end Rosy did a fantastic job with the homes and they look great on top of the mountain.
Side View
Front View
Reflection
Creating the mountain
Before creating the mountain we had to draw out on the base where everything needed to go and then router where the lake was going to go. To create the shape of the mountain, we stuffed scrunched up pieces of newspaper into chicken wire and created the shape we needed. When we finished with stapled the wire down, trimming the sides and started working on the plaster. The kind of plaster we used was called, 'Plaster of Paris'. All we did to make it was we mixed the powder with water until it was a perfect. The plastering took a long time as our mountain was very big, but we finally finished it and after waiting for the plaster to dry I started painting it. To make the paint job look as realistic as the plaster felt, we brought in spunges so that the mixture of colours would be more suttel. Mixing the paints to get the perfect colours took a very long time, but after I'd gotten the perfect colours, I started layering the paint on and mixing them together. The feedback we got for the mountain at our presentation was very positive as they sayed that it looked very realistic. Rosy and I are very happy with the way the mountain turned out. After the mountain had dried, I then started straight away with the extra landscape features. My mom and I found a great Christmas shop on our way back from school where they sell really cool miniature trees and model accessories. While I was there I bought a few fake small trees and some fake dirt. I first applied the dirt to the bases surface by painting watered glue down onto the base and pouring the dirt onto it. I gradually and carefully made my way through the whole surface (making sure I had covered as much wood as possible and that the dirt was set successfully so that it wouldn't fall off). I then started gluing on the trees with the hit glue gun (which was easy enough), and when Rosy had finished the the homes I hot glued them into place as well. Overall, I think the landscape for our resort turned out great.
Before creating the mountain we had to draw out on the base where everything needed to go and then router where the lake was going to go. To create the shape of the mountain, we stuffed scrunched up pieces of newspaper into chicken wire and created the shape we needed. When we finished with stapled the wire down, trimming the sides and started working on the plaster. The kind of plaster we used was called, 'Plaster of Paris'. All we did to make it was we mixed the powder with water until it was a perfect. The plastering took a long time as our mountain was very big, but we finally finished it and after waiting for the plaster to dry I started painting it. To make the paint job look as realistic as the plaster felt, we brought in spunges so that the mixture of colours would be more suttel. Mixing the paints to get the perfect colours took a very long time, but after I'd gotten the perfect colours, I started layering the paint on and mixing them together. The feedback we got for the mountain at our presentation was very positive as they sayed that it looked very realistic. Rosy and I are very happy with the way the mountain turned out. After the mountain had dried, I then started straight away with the extra landscape features. My mom and I found a great Christmas shop on our way back from school where they sell really cool miniature trees and model accessories. While I was there I bought a few fake small trees and some fake dirt. I first applied the dirt to the bases surface by painting watered glue down onto the base and pouring the dirt onto it. I gradually and carefully made my way through the whole surface (making sure I had covered as much wood as possible and that the dirt was set successfully so that it wouldn't fall off). I then started gluing on the trees with the hit glue gun (which was easy enough), and when Rosy had finished the the homes I hot glued them into place as well. Overall, I think the landscape for our resort turned out great.
Base with rough sketch of where things will be placed
First Design
Second Design
Third and final design
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