Egyptian Mythology Display - Spring Clean 2024

I’ve glue most of the parts together into large sub-assemblies. I guessed it would be impractical to glue everything together into one big assembly at this stage.

I also found the pyramid and large snake model that goes in the background in a storage box.

Originally I planned to mount it all in a rustic wooden crate, but shopping around I found you don’t really get them big enough. Plan B was to find some old plywood in my garage and cut it to size to make a base. It needed to be 80 cm wide and 40 cm deep to fit the full assembly.

You can see from the pictures that there a lots of mis-prints which stop bits fitting together seamlessly. These parts were some of the last prints I did on my first 3D printer just before it died. It had been from a kickstarter where they had deliberately designed a printer to be as cheap as possible. That, combined with my inexperience printing, is probably why so many parts came out deformed. Until I tried to assemble everything in the past week many of these miss-prints weren’t obvious. I’m not fussed. I’ll try to make them look like cracks and present the structure as partially ruined.

Next I need to glue the model to the wood. Does anybody have recommendations for gluing resin to wood? I was thinking a 2-part epoxy would work well.

Then I want to put something on the base to look like sand dunes. Again, any recommendations? I was thinking a filler but I don’t know if it will adhere to the wood.