Skyfall lodge model
IceQ
Posts: 301MI6 Agent
Lockdown boredom project, haven’t done model making since I was a kid so had to re-learn lots of stuff. Weathering is based on the final VFX not the set shoot as the latter is far too new looking. Had issues finding accurate plans to get dimensions correct so there’s a few bits that are ‘off’ and some stuff I would have done differently but overall fairly happy with how it turned out. No idea what to do with it now!
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Forgot one aspect!
That's stunning!
Wow!!!
That's amazing!
WOW It would look lovely on display, Im guessing that its to big though.
Oh wow - how cool is that. Fantastic work, well done
Thanks all, very kind! I may pop it on a display base, not sure if I’ll do just plain or terrain with scrub and stones etc.
Looks superb, excellent job.
Fantastic work!!
I love it.
Excellent work 👏🏻
If you do that it'd be too tempting not to park a DB5 outside! 😁
There's also a 1:72 scale model of the Augusta helicopter used in the scenes too - perhaps you could add that as well?
Amazing work! reminds of the Spyscape model that was used for the CGI work
Not sure if scale is quite the same but here you go @emtiem
wow, wonderful model. How an earth did you make it?
Marvellous! 😁
Don't worry about the scale; we can put it down to perspective!
I echo the post above: how did you go about it? Did you copy the design by eye or do you have some drawings for it? I remember there were actually some plans for it made public on the Surrey county council website I think!
I tried to dig up plans, had the internal ones (which don’t match external) and some dodgy external ones with whole room bits missing! In the end I had to eyeball most of it and roughly guess measurements hence some stuff a bit off. It is mostly foam board, plastic and balsa hand painted with acrylics and some pigment powders.
Where did you get those from? Were you on the film?
Lots of google rabbit holes and blowing up crappy quality images! Nope don’t work in film unfortunately.
Ah cool, nice work! 😊
I did actually visit the house when it was standing: I wish I'd taken more photos. Maddeningly I didn't take a selfie with it!
Literally the day after I finish it and Spyscape has free online access with guess what, external schematic... to be fair even that isn’t completely correct to on screen version though but would have been helpful! Almost tempted to make another now...
Haha! No way! Is that the 'online exhibition' part of the website? Worth signing up to?
Yep it is free and nicely put together
I’ve got all the original plans and schematics somewhere. I’ll see if I can dig them out.
That would be amazing, would be good to do one that is 100% SA
Being an avid modeler myself - I am simply stunned at the textural accomplishments with this as well as the weathering and scale realism. Fantastic job !
It won’t be 100% spot on as they went off piste slightly with the design when they were actually building it due to construction problems.
That's very kind, thank you!
Yeah I can see that from some of the design stuff already, I'd just cross reference both the plans and visuals rather than eyeballing it all!
What a wonderful piece of work. I doff my hat sir.