바랏두르 반지의제왕 웨타 WETA - Barad-dur Environment Model

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BARAD-DÛR

- Price : $699.00

- Limited Edition of 1000

- Dimensions : 18.11" x 20.86" x 12.2" (W x H x D) 46 cm x 53 cm x 31 cm

- Weight : 22.04 lbs (10 kg)

 

Torn down after his defeat at the Last Alliance of Men and Elves at the end of the Second Age, over centuries the Dark Tower was rebuilt even greater than it had been before, for while the Ring survived, the foundations of Sauron’s power would always remain intact and his power grow again.

 

Looming three-thousand feet over the parched plains of Mordor was the vast and terrible fortress of Barad-dûr, the home of the Dark Lord Sauron. Held aloft by the iron will of its master, the great tower was the ultimate testimony to the might of Sauron. From its black stone summit the Dark Lord would cast his malevolent gaze across the desolate stretch of Gorgoroth to the west, seeking the return of the Ring that held the key to his dominion of Middle-earth.

Our authentic prop replicas and collectibles are designed by the very same artists who have worked on the three films, so effectively they come straight from Middle-earth.
Richard Taylor- CEO & Co-founder, Weta Workshop

A behemoth

Weta's most elaborate and intricate environment from The Lord of the Rings, Barad-dûr - Fortress of Sauron is the crowning glory in a line that contains such icons as Orthanc - Black Tower of Isengard, Bag End, The Argonath and of course the magnificent Rivendell.

Soaring from the base, the ominous dark tower reaches an impressive total height of more than 20 inches (530 mm) and weighs in at a staggering 22 lbs (10 kg).

The menace of the Dark Lord is perfectly captured in every detail, this piece is an EXACT model of the Shooting Miniature (or BIG-ature) used by director Peter Jackson in The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Every crag, buttress, rampart and pinnacle has been expertly reproduced by Weta Senior Model maker David Tremont and his team of model makers, mould makers, sculptors and painters.

Baraddûr - Fortress of Sauron is different to other environments in that it will be made from a combination of polystone and polyurethane. Being such a complex structure, the use of polyurethane ensures the smallest and finest details can be accurately reproduced with reduced risk of breakages.

The terror

Barad-dûr - Fortress of Sauron has been a labour of love and terror for David Tremont, as you can read in a series of articles he has written for you on our website. Read them and get an idea of the effort involved in making this model. More than 1,500 hours of sculpting and modelmaking, moulding and painting.

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Building the collectibles master of Barad-dur for Weta Collectibles.

1. This is the Barad-dur collectible we built for Weta, getting close to eight years ago now

2. This was completely hand made over nine months

3. Measuring up the shooting miniature and trying to figure out how to make this. Very daunting when we first looked at it

4. Making small sections out of styrene plastic

5. Another section. A lot of these pieces were replicated so we would make patterns then mould them. The tiny pieces next to the knife are bricks ready to go on

6. We made around 100 small detail sections and cast out close to 1000 pieces that all had to be fitted and blended together with more detail to make the final tower

7. All the rock was sculpted around the finished tower

8. Here is co-worker sculpting rock

9. Sculpting rock and landscape. The final piece was in 41 sections so it could be moulded

10. We made 3 paint masters and here is Dordi Moen painting them

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The Making of Barad-dûr by David Tremont Senior Model Maker at Weta Colletibles!
This first installment of a series of articles for a book written by David Tremont!

David is the Senior Model Maker at Weta Collectibles and he wrote a journal while in the process of creating Barad-dûr ~ Fortress of Sauron

We here at the Land of Shadow.com are so excited about the creation of the Dark Tower designed by John Howe, created at 166th scale by the folks at Weta Workshop for the films and NOW the folks at Weta Collectibles have made a miniature we can all get out hands on!

The first article begins with a forward from Richard Taylor as he discusses the making of the original miniature or ‘Bigature’ for the Lord of the Rings films! However, it’s the words of David Tremont the really get you into the process of this daunting task. I love reading about the creative work of other artists as they search and struggle within themselves for that spark of inspiration that sets them on fire for the next project! The overcoming of self doubt and fear that all artist feel from time to time! David is like an open book and fearlessly shares his feelings and thoughts on the task of bringing the Miniature Collectible of Barad-dûr ~ Fortress of Sauron to life.

Exciting reading and this is just the first article. Weta Collectibles is going to be posting PDF files of the entire series for us to read! Excellent!

Here is an excerpt from the writing of David Tremont!

In the meantime Daniel had gathered more reference images of the miniature that I printed out large to give me a better look at the detail and complexity. I pored over these to try and get my head around it to work out a budget, but the biggest part was trying to understand the shapes and details… it is very complex and impossible to understand from the pictures but I had to start somewhere and get an idea of time and a budget. This has to be perfect, I was not going to settle for anything less and to achieve that level will make this task even more difficult but I was determined it will happen… I was very concerned because the first look at the images was… tricky… this is going to be my biggest challenge yet…

… OK… I was scared shitless…

 

… very scary and very exciting at the same time and as much as I want to build it as a model making exercise, I have to be responsible and consider the use of rapid prototype printing some, or all, of the model. Going through the process of building the digital model (from the films digital version) was going to take a long time by itself.

The digital Barad-dûr is the skin only and is a hollow model; we only see the surface so it does not have to be solid. To do a print would require re-building the digital model to make it solid (watertight) and this takes a long time on something this detailed. Once we had an idea of how small the pieces were going to be, it was clear that artefacting, on the prints, was going to be impossible to clean up while retaining the tiny detail… I would be better off building it. Yah!… I’m going to build it… Oh!… grief, I’m going to build it.

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The Making of Barad-dûr ~ Part Two
Weta Senior Model Maker David Tremont gives us another thrilling chapter!

 

Last month we brought you excerpts of the first chapter of the new book by David Tremont! Now we have Chapter Two!

Here are a few selections pulled from this months installment for Chapter Two of the making of Barad-dûr ~ Fortress of Sauron from Weta Collectibles! You can pre-order your very own Dark Tower of Mordor HERE!

We love getting a sneak peek into the mind of a world class Miniature Model Maker! In this installment, David talks about his first day on the project and the enormous responsibility he feels to get the Dark Tower of Mordor just right! I was thrilled to find out that he had the actual Barad-dûr bigature delivered to his location to examine so that he could do his best creative work. It’s amazing to see just how bit the real ‘Bigature’ actually is… it’s enormous in scale and we are treated to a great set of photos showing the beautiful detail in this huge miniature! Hereare a few excerpts from his book…

“Holy crap, this is daunting… the first day of such a complex task. The job ahead of me is probably… no, definitely the most complex piece I will have done to date and the real scary thing is that I have no idea how I am going to do this.”

“The people that built this did a fantastic job but it was the first, so they could ‘make it up’ as they go, they could ‘fudge’ the panel to fit into the next, they could make up a piece of detail to fill in the gap… they created a fixed point and I have to now copy that fixed design. The detail is going to be extremely tiny which gives rise to technical difficulties, as in; it has to be mass produced and some detail will be so tiny it will be lost under paint or too fragile to pull out of a mould. The miniature is built up with layer upon layer and to look at it as a whole is overwhelming so my usual technique is to break it down into sections and basic geometric shapes. Until the way forward is very clear in my head I will focus on the small components that make up Barad-dûr and look at these small pieces as individual model making jobs.”

Read more excerpts from this book along with more amazing images of the Lord of the Rings screen used Bigature of Barad-dûr!

“It was clear as soon as I saw the model that this will be the most difficult challenge that I have faced yet… it is terrifying and exciting at the same time but I can’t dwell on this and need to focus on getting started or, more to the point, figuring out how to get started. The first thing is trying to understand the shape and figure out how to measure it. It is basically a cylinder but has flat sections, raised sections and recessed sections and at different levels, so getting a base point to measure from is very important and could mean making many mistakes if I don’t get it sorted now. This is going to be a long term job so any plans such as ‘which detail to measure from’ have to be written down because in a couple of months, when I come back to that point, I won’t remember what I planned and mistakes can be made. I know it is easy to say that you would not forget but in the sheer size of this job and the time scale, it is impossible to remember everything so you have to assume details will be forgotten. A good way to sort plans on this specific job is to take pictures and print them out on big bits of paper and write information on them. The rest is simply being organized enough to not lose those bits of paper.”

“We are very excited by the idea of having the landscape going down into the base which always adds another dimension to the collectible. To do this properly means a thicker base as in we have to build it up as the main base plate has to be of certain thickness so it does not become a break point. Barad-dûr is also part of a rocky outcrop and we weren’t keen on having a large section of cut of rock that just gets painted black, it limits the sides to view it from and can look a little clumsy. We have done this before and in most cases can’t avoid it with landscapes. So we decided that Barad-dûr should be parked at one end of the base, reducing the mountain cut off, and showing more of the plains which really is part of the story this collectible is telling. A quick alteration to the cardboard mock up showed that this would work and the size of the building footprint is big enough to limit the flat plains and rock giving us a nice balance. Another part of this environment is the road and lava river, so angling the model to show some of this is important. In the evening I would look at the DVD and familiarise myself with the layout but usually get involved in the movie and forget why I put it on in the first place.”

“My workshop has a few windows along the front and is now filled with the view of Barad-dûr so for the next bunch of months I look out into Mordor… just no volcano… well, if Jordan vents his spleen at something… could be a good stand in for Mt Doom… Jordan works just opposite me.”