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The making of Barad-Dûr

Part three

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Another frame was built to support the walls and the bastions.



To make sure we had the angles right we used the paper lay-out to fix a bastion onto each wall segment before gluing the couple to the frame. Meanwhile, three 12mm MDF pillars were raised inside the structure to carry the weight of the upper storeys.



On Barad-dûr, two turrets are flanking the main tower. On the left side of the fortress (in this picture: on the right), the wall of the outer rampart is gradually sloping up towards the left turret. There was some confusion about the direction of this wall as well as the position of the turret: at the outset we thought the wall was running in a straight line parallel to the right side but with our model next to the TV screen we concluded that it was following a diagonal course.



The last elements were produced and glued in place.



The joining between the walls and the bastions wasn't perfect: small crevices remained which were likely going to upset us once the camera started to click. Because the model was already textured, adding filler wasn't quite an idea as it took ages to lick the stuff into shape. In the end we simply poured some glue into the chinks and left things as they were to dry overnight. Black paint was sprayed first thing next morning… gone were the chinks.



We couldn't help it: we had to try out a few camera angles to find out if the miniature was going to perform. We spent a few hours photographing and were rewarded with a familiar picture:

"You've seen it before, haven't you - Gollum?!"

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