Since my last post our resort has progressed nicely. Shae was away for two lessons so I finished plastering our mountain and began measuring and cutting out the cabins in this time. After Shae returned we decided to only make the cabins one storey because it would be difficult to make them the way we had planned. After we made one cabin like this we decided it seemed too plain and low, and so we added a second storey but in a different way to our original design. An image of a semi-completed cabin can be seen below. We are planning on attaching clear plastic to the front and side walls of the cabins to symbolise the glass, but if this doesn't work we will probably just leave it as it is.



We have also begun painting the mountain. We decided it would be better to paint it before doing the waterfall so we could have the paint going right up to the edge of the lake without having the risk of it getting on the water. It is going to be predominantly brown, with grey around the sides and where the waterfall/lake is. There will also be some green around the top and sides of the mountain. The current mountain can be seen below:

Mountain

In the lesson today, Shae was away and I didn't want to make too many changes without her. I found some new plaster though, so I was able to finish plastering the sides of the mountain and fill up any holes. I also made it a bit less neat so that it would look more natural, instead of being really smooth. Hopefully Shae will be back in the next lesson because I'm not sure what we want to do from here.

Starting the Resort

It has been a week since we began making our resort, and so far everything has run smoothly. Our only problem was that our lake was too wide so the router wouldn't have been able to balance on the edges. To fix this we simply made the lake slightly narrower. Since then, we have made the mountain that the cabins are going to sit on using newspaper, chicken wire and plaster of Paris. Unfortunately we ran out of plaster before we could cover the back and sides and couldn't find any more, but hopefully this won't matter, and if it does we can always cover it later.