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Contest: Cold Stare
slodder
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North Carolina, United States
Joined: February 22, 2002
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Posted: Friday, November 01, 2002 - 05:48 AM UTC
Cold Stare
1944 Ardenne, Hotton, one lone sniper has setup shop on the cold stone balcony on the second floor of a city building.
Snow has recently fallen and covered everything and the wind has blown the snow in through a broken door and window.
The sniper stays low out of the wind and out of sight, searching the cold winter horizon with a pair of cold field glasses in a cold stare ready to do a cold job.

That's was my 'Shazam'. I hope it holds up.
Eagle
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Posted: Friday, November 01, 2002 - 06:05 AM UTC
By the reactions I just feel this contest is gonna be a succes !!

Love your input Slodder, I really can feel the cold already.
slodder
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Posted: Friday, November 01, 2002 - 08:51 AM UTC
Eagle,
I agree, this campaign is great. I love the competative goodnatured same goal driven enthusiasm everyone is putting into this.

This is great

slodder
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Posted: Monday, November 04, 2002 - 03:34 AM UTC
UPDATE:
Over the weekend I was able to make decent progress
I have my wooden base well under way. Scrap wood from an old shelving project. Cut it down, routed over the edges, filled in any nicks and dings. Cost me about $0.25.
I had made a mold of a stone face last week and did my first pouring of plaster. This is going to be the primary wall face. That came out well. Cost me round $0.75 for the latex and plaster.
I did scale architect type drawing of the building components to make sure it will fit. I cut them out and 'placed' them together to get a visual representation of how it will look.
I scratch built a couple of chairs for the interior (not sure if I'm going to use them).
I tested some snow affects, More testing to come!!!
I have put my figures main components together (legs and torso). I have a base coat of flesh painted on his head.
I started scratch building the door this morning out of balsa wood bits and pieces.
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