Creating Props and Assets

For the shop scene I needed some props to make the set more full, so I used Sculpey to create various can, tin, fruit and box shapes. I painted these with Citadel paints according to what they were going to be and tried to use various colours to make it seem like more of a variety.

I created the shelves in the shop from cutting and glueing together thin pieces of wood and then at first I painted them white but this didn't work too well and looked very uneven and the wood was visible underneath, so instead I spray painted over them to make the paint evenly coated..

The tables and counters were all made from coloured card that was then scored to give it nice clean bends, I also painted where I scored the card to hide the white. The radiator below the window was painted with a metallic Citadel paint so it would be more obvious it was a metal-like object. The bin prop was made by making the basic shape out of wood and then moulding over it in Sculpey and painting over it to make it look more refined. The till was originally going to be 3D printed but because this cost so much I decided to make the top part from Sculpey, then realised I could use a matchbox as the bottom draw part of it which ended up working really well. I painted the whole thing black as a coat then repainted the top part silver and added detail to it for the buttons and sign.

To make the glasses prop I researched ways of making small glasses and found many guides that said to use paper clip wires or pipe cleaners, and I settled on using silver wire to make them. I tried multiple styles and shaped them to Sams face before I finally felt like I had made them good enough, and to disguise the fact they were just wire I painted around the rims which also made them look more realistic.