#harbour wall

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Harbour wall, La Palma, Spain, Georgie Jerzyna Pauwels, 2017

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Leeuwin 2 / Western Australia, July 2017

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Hello! Here is a tutorial I’ve been working on recently, hope that it all makes sense to y’all.

So I wanted to make a set of harbour walls for my game boards. Originally I planned for the harbour to be set up along one board edge as in the first picture. (obviously the green squares are the boards, the grey bits are the harbour walls and the blue’s the water.)

I decided that it was easier to do each harbour piece maximum 12″ long as that’d make them easier to store. So for the first set up I’d need four 12″ sections. 

I would have preferred to use 40mm thick Styrofoam but here in the UK it seems horribly difficult to get hold of Styrofoam, so I defaulted to my standard of using foam board. In picture 2 I’ve just detailed the tools etc I use when making terrain - sharp hobby knife, cutting board, PVA glue, nice steel rulers, and also pins.

Anyways, I decided that each harbour piece should be 12″ long, 40mm tall and 2″ wide. To start with I cut out eight 12″ x 2″ pieces of foamboard for the top and bottom of each harbour piece. Then I cut out eight pieces of 12″ x 30mm for the front and back. (with the added thickness of the top and bottom that’ll add up to 40mm tall). Finally I needed eight end pieces that are 30mm x 40mm. In picture 3 you can see the three different sizes of board I cut.

Because I want the harbour walls to have a stone effect, I took four of the 12″ x 2″ pieces (the tops) and four of the 12″ x 30mm pieces (the fronts) and peeled the paper off one side. This exposes the foam as you can sort of see in picture 4.

Finally in picture 5 I scored some stones into the exposed foam using a craft knife. When the walls are stuck together I’ll deepen the scores using a pencil, but for now I find it’s better to leave them like this.

In my next post I’ll show you what I did next! Hope you find this useful! :D

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Harbour wall at Laukvik, Lofoten Islands

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Leeuwin 1 / Western Australia July 2017

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Overflow by Sue Rowlands Via Flickr: Portwrinkle is a small coastal hamlet in south-east Cornwall. It is at the western end of Whitsand Bay. It was traditionally a fishing village and the old 17th century walls of the pilchard cellars are still standing, although they have now been incorporated into housing. The village has two beaches and a harbour. The first quay was built at Portwrinkle in 1612 to support the local pilchard fishing seines. The quay and harbour were rebuilt in 1792 – much enhanced with the new two storey Pilchard Cellars for processing and packing the pilchards. By the mid 1800’s pilchards had been replaced by mackerel and this fishery continued up to the early 1900s. As the old seine collectives wound up at the start of the Great War, fishing was continued by just a handful of local families and visitors to the hamlet. Commercial fishing slowly declined in the latter half of the twentieth century and the final commercial boat completed its last season at Portwrinkle in 2020. www.cornwallharbours.co.uk/our-harbours/portwrinkle

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Margate Harbour wall with the Turner gallery at the end