We had finished the lava and air moon, so now we had to do the metal moon, the tracks for the trains and the central “earth”.
We had been told by the others that the tracks would need some type of system to slow down the trains. They were worried that the audience would want to move the trains extremely quickly, which would then cause a small delay to the data. We decided we would use wooden sticks and then secure the foam board sides to the sticks so the tracks would be separate, and thus easy to transport, but also create sort of speed-bumps for the trains.
Yanis focused on the metal moon, using a balloon as a template to bend the metal wire to a spherical shape. He made it quite abstract and added small dangly parts.
Here they are all done:
Lastly, was the central planet. We used one of the transparent balloons and stuck our fake grass on top of it. We used some paper and kitchen towel to create a watery texture. We also put some UHU glue over this to create a layered, squiggly texture to look more like waves. We painted over it to represent grass and water, and the let it to dry for a while.
All of our models are very crafty, and slightly look like a primary school project. But that’s not to say that the process was very enjoyable, and Yanis and I in particular are very proud of the result. We had to do a lot of rethinking about how we were going to make them. We went through so many different ideas and had to constantly be problem-solving, which I would say is the real thing we took from it.
