Egg Carton Castle: A Socially Distanced Project

[HonestTom]

Hullo all. With modelling resources hard to come by, I thought I’d try my hand at a project using nothing but rubbish. I thought a ruined castle would be the very thing. Using a small cardboard box and a kitchen roll tube, I made a shell. The stonework is mostly egg cartons, which have a very stony texture on the inside. My progress so far:

 

[HonestTom]

Work on Castle Lockdown continues. As a (model) stonemason, I am giving myself an allowance of beer in accordance with medieval guidelines.

 

[Edwin_m]

Hope your project isn't affected by the current shortage of eggs, and therefore of egg cartons.  

[HonestTom]

15 hours ago, Edwin_m said:

Hope your project isn't affected by the current shortage of eggs, and therefore of egg cartons.  

You can get a surprising amount of building material from one carton. I already had one box (I had this idea a while back) so I only needed one more.

 

Anyway: progress!

 

[HonestTom]

All the stonework is attached. Next up: painting!

[HonestTom]

Finished!

[Ben B]

That looks amazing, the texture from the egg box is very effective

[HonestTom]

26 minutes ago, Ben B said:

That looks amazing, the texture from the egg box is very effective

 

Many thanks. I still have a lot of card left over, so I might try my hand at a cottage or something.

[SteveyDee68]

Agreed about the effectiveness of the surface texture, but I also think the proportions of your castle are really good too.  In fact, I so like your castle that I may try something similar to while away the lock down hours!

 

Steve S

[HonestTom]

12 hours ago, SteveyDee68 said:

Agreed about the effectiveness of the surface texture, but I also think the proportions of your castle are really good too.  In fact, I so like your castle that I may try something similar to while away the lock down hours!

 

Steve S

Many thanks!

 

I’ve made a video about how I made the castle here. I have one about how I painted it coming out next week. In the meantime, I’ve been working on a fisherman’s chapel.

 

[HonestTom]

Oh heck I double-posted

Edited April 3, 2020 by HonestTom

[HonestTom]

Here's the video on how I painted the castle. I was quite pleased with the end result - I've always been a bit nervous about doing stonework.

[AyJay]

I do like the way you have used eggboxes to form the rough stones.  I guess that you just got snipping with a pair of scissors in a random way?  I would never have thought of doing it that way.   So will your next project be this :-)