3)Fleshing out the Details
OK so now we get to building the foot bridge that makes the piece cool. To start I ran three pieces of I-beam plasticard to make the horizontal supports for the bridge. I added the one in the middle for extra strength. I glued them in place with hotglue becuase plastic glue eats the foam base, though you would also use white glue.
I then ran a thick line of tackey glue(aka really thick white glue) down each of the beams and started to place the tooth picks in a line. This was a pain in the ass let me tell you. Once that was finished I simply ran two pieces of strip plasticard down each side of the bridge to help hide the uneven ends of the toothpicks. This also helps to give it a more futureistic look(yeah right, lol). You could jsut make the bridgedeck out of plasticard if you want a real scifi bridge and then decorate it with other plasticard dodads and scrapes.
I then started to detail the base in the middle of the lava lake. This involved adding random pieces that looked right from the command vechile sprue. I used the Ig eagle looking radar dish from ontop, the chaos piece becuase it had all the pipes on it and the space marine piece cause it looked like a small computer housing.
Then I made lava from hotglue!!! To make the crater which for me means the part of the volcano where the lava plume is, just take some cardboard or heavy paper, roll a small piece into a tube and glue it to where you want the crater. Then start pouring hoglue over it in large amounts. It will run down and form the shape after abut 3 or 4 applications. Then just fill in the rest of the lava river and lake with hotglue. Use a similar method to get the lava water fall to look like it is in motion. And remember cause its hotglue you can always go back later and reowkr the shape of the glue with the hottip of the gun.
You may be thinking to yourself now "OMFG this looks like crap, it cant be right" but your wrong. most pieces of scenery look bad before they look good. Stick with it becuase we are going to start paint soon and thats when things will really start to come together.