Building Pikku’s house with foamboard and cardboard
Building Pikku’s house
Pikku’s house is an old and creaky Torne valley house with kitchen and livingroom on the first floor. Second floor has a Bedroom and a Nintendo room. Everything has become a bit crooked over the years, but Pikku keeps the house in good shape.
Pattern for Pikku’s house
I will build the house of foamboard and cardboard for details like windowframes and corner moldings. But I start by creating a pattern for the house using Light Wave 3d, just as I did when I made Pikku himself.
Just like when I created Pikku I make an UV-map of all the parts in Light Wave 3d. I save the UV-map as eps and print it out. I then copy the pattern to the foambard and cut each part out. Then it is time for glueing.
Glueing and detailing Pikku’s house
One by one I glue the pieces together and start creating detils like the windowframes (that I cut from the cover of Yuki’s sketch book). After many hours of glueing, cutting and piecing togeather, I have this:
Now it’s time to start painting the house. I use acrylic color and a rough bristle to get a lot of texture. I also paint each layer in a slightly different shade to get a nice shift in colors.
Next I start with the front door and the porch. The door will never be opened in the film, so a glued door is good enough. The porch pillars and fence are made of cardboard and the broom is made from a wooden roasting stick (for shishkebab) and some balsa wood. The ligts are made with a battery powered light chain from Rusta that I duckttape to the right places.
I also paper the walls with cutouts from a magazine to give some more life behind the windows. I also cut some curtains from some old cloth.
Finally I glue in place some gutters that I made from paper straws i found at Clas Ohlsson.
Next step is the hill and area around the house.