Posted: 5/24/2011 11:15:34 AM EDT
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I haven't put a model together since I was a kid so I'm not really familiar with them anymore. I might be involved with a low budget sci fi film and I was wondering how to start if I wanted to build a futuristic citiscape. ie George Lucas before he went CGI. Or maybe Blade Runner is a better example.
My local hobby store has lots of planes, tanks and cars but no city scape stuff except for model train sort of stuff. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Does any one sell building type models? I see they sell molds for mountain rock for the train sets where you pour yourself a few boulders. Anything like that for buildings available? |
I think most people build these entirely themselves, I know I did when I was building cities for Epic Scale WH40k battles. 
Usually I'd just wander the toys sections in the department stores (or go to toys-r-us) and look for futuristic type stuff that was approximately the right size, buy cheap stuff, then attack it with the hacksaw, hobby knife, glue, and paint to build my own buildings/cities. |
| Here's a link to a great source of information and techniques. Per Olav Lund is a Norwegian modeller, a wizard of landscaping IMO. His work, however, is not usually futuristic, but take a look and see if you can find some useful ideas. |
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I would suggest visiting a local university's architectural model shop.
I build scale model aircraft. While you can find a lot of the environmental stuff (trees, grass, dirt, etc.) at the standard hobby shop. An architectural model shop will have all of that and then some. Pretty much every last thing you need. When I was a student at OU I used to walk past theirs and was amazed at all that you could find. Very well stocked. My sister is an architect and still builds all her models by hand. I think any structure is scratch made and I doubt you would find any 'ready built'. Kind of the point for architects. |