Miniature Column Tutorial

Hey guys welcome to another From the Halls post! This time I'm gonna give you guys a guide on how to make columns. Things you are going to need:

• Quick drying plaster.
• Plastic tube/conduit pipe/smarties tube (depends on the diameter you are looking for)
• PVA glue
• Thick Cardboard
• Patience

Step 1

So the first step is to prepare a the tube which you are going to use to cast the column. If you are going to use a conduit, saw it off from the middle so that it can be split to remove the cast easily. The best result would be obtained with a smarties tube because you can just peel it off. Once you have something like the ones in the image below you can move on to step 2.

Step 2:

Mark out 5 mm strips on the cardboard and cut them out.

Step 3:

Start gluing the strips to the column. Try to leave equal distances between each strip. Try to glue the last strip as equal as possible because since we are not measuring the circumference God knows what distance is going to be left.

After you glue the last strip, leave it to dry.

Step 4:

Once all is dry, start snipping off the excess left from the strips.

Step 5:

Here I mixed a paste of 2:1:1:1 of plaster:sand:water:PVA glue. Once it reach the consistincy of paste, I used a flat brush and covered the column with. Below is a picture of the column when it dried.

Well I hope you like it guys and that it's useful for you! I'll post some pics of the finished column which I'm finishing on my base.

If you have any questions feel free to leave me a message!

Cheers