Concept Bid Miniature Set Model
Domiciles Nightmare Far Fight Gameshow Dream Scene
Semester 4 - Miniature Model Making
Concept Model Intro -
This was a 1:25 scale miniature set concept model, that not only was a learning platform for this Semester 4.
As a concept model this is in full colour and highly detailed to look like a miniature version of the real thing. This is a far more advanced model style compared to white card modelling which tends to be done by hand. This had to be as close to the final version as possible, so to get the detail most of it was laser cut
This was my bid for a competition to judge by the director’s course students, to decide which to progress to being the full-size gameshow set used in the end of year production Domiciles.
Techniques Learned
Term or Semester 4 of my UAL Professional Diploma for Art Departments covered various Mininature Model Making Techniques & Concept Art :
- Details Scaling
- Laser Cutting
- Texture
- Concept Art
- Photo Bashing
- Superglue and Accelerator
- Card/Foamboard Model Making
CMS Assigned Script, "Get Out of Here" Treatment
Nightmare Right Wing Game Show Scene
Thought before we go further, I would point out that I don’t subscribe the hateful right wing xenophobic mentality at all.
If making a villain’s lair make it as villainous as possible, likewise if working on an American teen comedy based in a frat house it will hold the wildest parties on campus and a Disney princess bedroom as beautiful as possible. I put in the effort below to do the best.
I’m like the teacher in the John Lewis Christmas advert below who takes the school play to a whole new level as don’t want to do the usual boring recorder recital
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXCEiwiZAkM
- Please use the links below to read the treatment and script that we worked from, to understand how and why I interpreted them the way I did to develop my concepts to fit them.

- Please use the links below to read the treatment and script that we worked from, to understand how and why I interpreted them the way I did to develop my concepts to fit them.
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Domiciles Script
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This is the script. The model is for the scond location and scene set in a dream of twisted far right racist, xenophobic rigged game show.
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< Domiciles Treatment >
This is the treatment explaining the reasoning and logic behind the decisions to make the concept model the way I have done it.
Concept and Inspiration
The basic concept was :
Three migrants are waiting in a depressing home office immigration centre and one falls asleep watching a 70s gameshow and then drift dreams into a nasty, twisted, bighitted nightmare like far right racist gameshow.
Here the migrants have to compete in a rigged, racist, humiliating, unfair game where the prize is the right to stay, such as a green card and those who fail to score enough points are dragged out screaming by masked stormtrooper thug like ICE agents. Something I can imagine the way things are going appearing on GB or FOX news to please Donald Trump and Maga.
Host Side
The host representing nationalist mentality of this country gleefully and enjoying lording it over the 3 migrant contestants, very much thinking she’s is queen of the castle able to do as she likes, with money, power privilege and protection but really still low class, uneducated not having earned any of it. The kind who would expect to see Ferro Roche chocolates as the ultimate luxury food at a diplomat’s party. A Margerie Taylor Green like character only with an english from lower class chav wag vibe.
She is enjoying lording it over the humiliated and belittled, lower class, powerless, poverty induced 3 migrant contestants.
Thus her side is very paitriotic, jingoistic, higher up, has a football jeering chant, she is behind a castle, with a queens crown and pleasure luxuries that she thinks make her look posh and superior but are actually tackey and cheap.
Contestant Side
The contestants and forced onto what appears to be a dangerous rotton sea dock with a unseaworthy rusty ship side behind them with an utterly offiensive ship name. It has ship watertight doors lined with tacky fairground like 70s vibe lightbulbs which when a contestant failes to score enough points buzz, turn red, the doors slam open and black clad faced masked, robot-like storm trooper ICE/Home office troops rush out the grab them drag them back through the door screaming in terror which would then slam shut as the screams are cut off. I was looking for a vibe like a funnelweb spider attack.
Till the tables are turned by the smart contestant doign the dreaming and the host gets what she deserves...
Inspiration
I took inspiration from audience crowd gleeful nastiness taking delight in the suffering of those who were forced to fight, but more son how they took delight and frenzied pleasure in the creative, special and horrifically cruel execution and brutal punishment of prisoners in roman areas like the colosseum, as the crowd laughed and geared at people being fed to lions, torn apart by animals, set on fire to music, raped to death by animals like bulls fed to crocodiles etc.
Examples:
- Being Nero feeding christens to lions in the film Quo Vadis 1951 - Youtube Link
- Flooding the arena and pushing out prisoned on a sinking boat into the arena with huge Nile crocodiles in “Those about to
Die 2024 - Link - The "Human head Lawnmower" scene from Caligula - Youtube Link
- Numerous scenes areana from the Spartacus TV show
- The Boys
- Squid Game
- The Running Man - Youtube Link
- Death Race
- Hunger Games
- Battle Royal
Then combined this with the rhetoric of the likes of the
- Home Office
- Fox News
- GB News
- BNP
- Pritti Patel
- Suella Braverman
- Margerie Taylor Green
- Ron DeSantis
- Donald Trump
- Lee Anderson
- Brtiain First
- The Telegraph, The Mail, The Sun and other far right press,
Preperation for Construction
CAD Component Design Development
Component design and development in illustrator of the castle, stage, rear wall, shop and contestant dock.
Tools and Materials Used
Listing and detailing the materials and tools used to make the miniature concept model.
Laser Cutting Template Development
Prepping component in Illustrator and Lightburn for mostly laser cutting and some hand cutting.
Host and Home Office Side
Host Side - Castle Stage & Backwall
Construction of the host Amie's Castle Podium, Stage. Backdrop and Entrance.
Various problem solving construction issues.
Font Choices and Stage Front Football Chant
Detailing the difficulties in tiny manual text setting and colouring such lightweight characters. Laser cutting of components and the reasoning of the use of clearly xenophobic offensive football chants.
This was one of the hardest parts of the model to do and took the longest.
Rear Wall Flag & Logo
Rear wall of gameshow with logo design and union jack flag problems and fixes.
Placing the larger letters and dealing with errors such as not removing the film coating
Contestant Deportation Ship
Contestant Side Deportation Ship and Podium Dock Intro & Research
Intro and reasoning of the ship wall room and humilating docks, plus inspiration research.

Ship Side Doors Portholes and Pressure Door Crank Locking Wheels & Mechanism
Laser cutting of components including set up.

Door frames, painting styles. Noting how the tiny details such as portholes with tiny screw holes, pressure door internal structure and the crank wheels were created.
Score
Accumulators and
Ship Naming
Why score accumulators as opposed to digital readouts and how these were done and why.
How lighting was done.

Contestant Dock + English Channel
Contestant Dock and Ship Intro & Research
The organic build of the constestant docks, podiums.

Populating the Model

Adding people and painting them and replacing the English Channel and why.

Adding the Patriotic Guard Sharks
More unwelcoming elements, this time
patriotic guard sharks with flags in the channel section.
Our Studio and Studio Model
Actual Studio Recce
This is the studio the set model was intended for if made life size.

Making Studio Model

Here is the construction of the studio model section to place the set model into.
Finished Model
Here is the almost finished model. I will be giving the sharks warhammer lasers to add to the rediculousness of the xenophobic attiudes.
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Drafting & White Card Modelmaking
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