Everytime I think I'm about finished I decide to do something else or to try to correct a mistake (in some cases only to replace one mistake with another). Its been fun but with some frustrations aswell.
So, still not my proper photo series but heres how its looking right now.
You might notice in the first and third pics that the corridor section and elevator section aren't flush with eachother - at the moment its on the floor, an uneven surface, they do line up properly on a hard flat surface.
I went ahead and redid the wall panels on the part of the elevator that Maxx replicas built. The foil he used had air bubbles underneath it which was spoiling the look a bit and also I wanted it to match my new walls more closely.
I added a metallic looking section between the elevator door and the actual elevator - it had just been the blue floor of the corridor and the white wall underneath there. Not a mod that I planned but I had bought some aluminum tray for something else and it had this feature on it that looked somewhat 'elevatory' so I used it. Those are the only changes I made to Maxx's work. The floor that I added over his part of the elevator is removeable, I didn't want to glue anything down on his original floor as it looks really nice in itself. Ideally I could have matched the rest of my floor to what he did but alas I didn't know what I could use.
The grey panels going all around, again I couldn't perfectly match what Maxx had done, mainly just the colour but not the texture but they're passable. Cutting them (and all the wall panels) was a pain in the arse. Glueing the stuff to the walls was an even bigger pain. Thats where I had a lot of mistakes with things glueing down in the wrong position and having to either accept them like that or redo them. I'd also get glue on my fingers and get them stuck to the panels which would leave unwanted blemishes some of which are still there on the walls....but it is an elevator, I guess not every surface needs to be perfect.
Its not super-accurate. The walls are far too reflective and the matte grey panels actually look more white in the film and were placed lower down but since the diorama overall is intended more as an impression of the hospital than a perfect replication and a huge appeal of this dio IMO was the mirrored walls of the elevator I decided to keep that. Making the walls a flat silver as in the film would maybe have been a bit boring looking.
