spyrothedragon
Member
so basically gonna copy what i wrote from rfuk xD
i know there are loads of these about, but i thought i would post my own.
xD
i've not finished yet, just have to seal it with waterproof pva glue, throw some sand over it, and seal it again xD
i was going to do a step by step thing, but i accidentally deleted some of my photos on my camera on accident, i still have a few left. xD
so i'll just show you a few photos and a little bit of how i did it. xD
What i used/will use:
polystyrene, b&q 10 sheets for £10.
Tile Grout
No Nails (gun)
cocktail sticks
sand pva glue.
i did the build in two parts that would come together inside the vivarium and look like one big rock build.
i measured my tank, and made sure i could fit everything through the glass sliders xD
i cut out peices of ploystyrene into many different shapes, after about half hour of piecing them together i finally got one that looked pretty good.
it's a cave sort of thing, but he can also sit ontop of it to bask under the uv lamp.
i added cocktail sticks to strenthen it, then glued it with no nails.
i then needed to add more rocks to the far left of the cool end. glued them down.
and gave the cool side it's first coat of grout, i watered it down a little, to get into the parts where it would usually be hard to grout.
while this end was drying i got started on the hot end and basking site, while the first coat of grout was drying.
i pieced more pieces of polystyrene together, untill i came up with a design i liked and glued into place, i also gave the hot end a coat of watered down grout.
so over parts of the day, i did more layers of grout, because of the heat, it dried pretty fast, so i did around 4 coats in one day.
it's now in the kitchen drying.
tomorrow depending on whether or not i think 4 coats is enough, i will cover in waterproof pva, throw sand over it and recover with waterproof pva.
then hopefully it should be done by tomororw
i will post pictures of when it's done.
sorry for not really doing a step by step with pictures, but honestly, my memory on my sd card ran out, and i deleted some of the pictures when i started it.
so this is what it looks like now.
i know there are loads of these about, but i thought i would post my own.
xD
i've not finished yet, just have to seal it with waterproof pva glue, throw some sand over it, and seal it again xD
i was going to do a step by step thing, but i accidentally deleted some of my photos on my camera on accident, i still have a few left. xD
so i'll just show you a few photos and a little bit of how i did it. xD
What i used/will use:
polystyrene, b&q 10 sheets for £10.
Tile Grout
No Nails (gun)
cocktail sticks
sand pva glue.
i did the build in two parts that would come together inside the vivarium and look like one big rock build.
i measured my tank, and made sure i could fit everything through the glass sliders xD
i cut out peices of ploystyrene into many different shapes, after about half hour of piecing them together i finally got one that looked pretty good.

it's a cave sort of thing, but he can also sit ontop of it to bask under the uv lamp.
i added cocktail sticks to strenthen it, then glued it with no nails.
i then needed to add more rocks to the far left of the cool end. glued them down.
and gave the cool side it's first coat of grout, i watered it down a little, to get into the parts where it would usually be hard to grout.

while this end was drying i got started on the hot end and basking site, while the first coat of grout was drying.
i pieced more pieces of polystyrene together, untill i came up with a design i liked and glued into place, i also gave the hot end a coat of watered down grout.
so over parts of the day, i did more layers of grout, because of the heat, it dried pretty fast, so i did around 4 coats in one day.
it's now in the kitchen drying.
tomorrow depending on whether or not i think 4 coats is enough, i will cover in waterproof pva, throw sand over it and recover with waterproof pva.
then hopefully it should be done by tomororw
i will post pictures of when it's done.
sorry for not really doing a step by step with pictures, but honestly, my memory on my sd card ran out, and i deleted some of the pictures when i started it.
so this is what it looks like now.
