Friday, April 8, 2016

Strangest Scratchbuild: The Spirometer Sci-Fi Pumping Station

  A question was asked today on The Miniatures Page regarding what was the strangest object you had ever used to scratchbuild a piece of scenery.  This got me thinking about my many projects over the years.  After some recollection, I landed on the 25mm Sci-Fi pumping/fueling station I made using an old Spirometer that many years ago I had come home from the hospital with, after a bad bout of pnemonia.
     A Spirometer is used to help exercise your breathing and help you to expand your lungs and maintain their normal function.   I mounted my old one on a foamcoare base, and added a small foamcore building, as well as other bits and bobs to help disguise it.
   It's been over a decade since I built this, and it is still one of the pieces I'm most pleased with.

6 comments:

  1. Thanks for this! I have one at home and have been trying (but failing) to come up with some way to use it. Blame it on my vacant imagination...
    Chris

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  2. Terrific use of old kit,inspiring indeed!

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