First the ingridients... as per regulations it must come with a CD as a base...
an old copied version of the first Hitman game... and a tissue..

then cover the CD with PVA and wrap the tissue around it so to have a covered CD that never lets loose of the tissue again...cover everything with watered down PVA... let it dry...



then to the glowy stuff and the main ingridients of the terrain piece...i took an old illumiated picture holder... added gemstones i have in abundace to the body...



and what you currently cant see in preperation is an old clear plastic egg i got from a fleamarket... i scribbled some lines inside...and then roughed up the inner surface with a dremel tool... now it has an almost flowery or crystal like look to it... added a wash of puple wash to it... done!...
then i added four lego bricks of a nice shape and inserted tooth picks into them... gloed them also to the body...done...

the still unprimed WIP is here:





next... add a carboard control panel to the back...

this is all the wood so far

The long poles are the uprights for the hut (the two slightly longer ones for the front and the shorter at the back).
And two "flavours" of plank; the thinner ones from the upper half of the sprue trapezoid and the thicker from the lower half.
I'm aiming for as much variety as possible

Just a quick tutorial on how I make my sprue wood:
1.
First find yourself a piece of sprue and remove all the sticking out bits (clippers will be fine for this as it'll be tidied up later).
Then, cut it to length. I use a Number 10 blade in my scalpel and this allows me to use a rocking motion to cut the sprue, little by little, into two (Don't try to go all the way through in one go as you'll likely end up snapping your blade and/or cutting yourself).
Clean up any rough edges from where you removed bits before continuing.
2.
This is probably the most difficult step (yep, it's downhill from here).
Using the same technique that you used to cut the sprue to length, cut the sprue in half, lengthways (the shorter the plank/sprue the easier this step is).
There's two ways this can be done and will give you the results shown in the diagram (I'm cutting along the green line as this leads to a variety of sizes of wooden planks. The red line will give you all identical pieces. Probably just a matter of taste).
You have to be careful to get the cut as straight as you can, but a little unevenness can be solved afterwards with your scalpel and/or gives a bit of variation to your wood.
3.
You pieces will likely end up bent after this but can just be straightened by hand.


4.
The texture is built up by successive scratches with the side of the point of your scalpel (this gives thicker lines than using the "front" of the tip).
Starting at one end, make many small scratches of roughly the same length and try to cover the whole width of the sprue, the more lines the better the result.
5.
Moving further up the sprue, keep making small scratches of even depth to the same length, making sure that you fit in as many lines as possible.
However, continue your scratches to the bottom end of the sprue and allow the scalpel to follow whatever path it likes. This will deepen certain grooves that were there from the previous step and eventually the scalpel will only fall into those grooves and will therefore leave some of the grooves as smaller scratches.
6.
Continue this way along the sprue.
Once the grooves are deep enough at the lower end of the sprue you do not need to keep going over them and you therefore work your way up the sprue, all the time keeping the leading end of your scratches as evenly spaced as possible and allowing repeated passes to deepen grooves at random.


7.
Keep this going until you reach about half way up the sprue, then turn it around...
8.
Using the same technique, start at the other end and work your way towards the middle.
9.
Make sure to go over the middle, where the two halves meet, until the grooves are an equal depth and appear to continue the whole length of the piece.


10.
Repeat this for each side of your piece of sprue.
Then paint in your desired manner.