I just bought an FSM kit of an old, abandoned factory. I thought it'd be interesting to add some scale cobwebs to it. Anyone have any ideas on how to make 'em?
I remember reading somewhere that in the old days, movie studios made cobwebs for their "haunted house" and horror movies with a device like a cotton candy spinning machine that spun rubber cement. You might experiment with pulling strands of rubber cement. Rubber-cement-like material also under to make peeling paint effect, both models and full-size movie sets. This "old" building was put up on a movie location to hide modern businesses from camera view:
You have probably already considered this, but a correctly-scaled cobweb would be invisible, except under very special lighting conditions. Normally, modelers use selective compression to make real-world objects fit into our layouts. With a cobweb, you would be using selective expansion to make it visible. It might look really neat, so be sure to post photos if you figure out a way to do it. - Jeff
ok, will do! But I've decided that I may not do it. Because in HO scale it'd be so small it wouldn't really be worth making.
You said it was a old model....didnt it come with them?? Busy kicking Hobo spiders out of the boxcars...........
could be why the townspeople were in horror. I found a petrified tree frog in my train room...now sits on top of the theatre...TOADZILLA
