Mill pond under construction
The rear compartment shows some of the construction technique I used to create a mill pond for my sawmill. First I built the perimeter out of 1 inch (2.5 cm) thick Styrofoam sheet. Then I used wadded up newspaper or catalog pages to shape a rough form. Finally I used plaster cloth dipped in water to construct the hardshell. After the hardshell was completely dry, I painted it and added ground foam for soil and grass. The front compartment is a hill in its early stages, and you can see another hill further back on the other side of the creek.
The mill pond required a depression, whereas the hill needed Styrofoam chunks to give added height and strength. If you've ever studied landforms and used contour maps, you know that depressions and hilltops are inverses of each other as are valleys and ridges.
Mill pond under construction
The rear compartment shows some of the construction technique I used to create a mill pond for my sawmill. First I built the perimeter out of 1 inch (2.5 cm) thick Styrofoam sheet. Then I used wadded up newspaper or catalog pages to shape a rough form. Finally I used plaster cloth dipped in water to construct the hardshell. After the hardshell was completely dry, I painted it and added ground foam for soil and grass. The front compartment is a hill in its early stages, and you can see another hill further back on the other side of the creek.
The mill pond required a depression, whereas the hill needed Styrofoam chunks to give added height and strength. If you've ever studied landforms and used contour maps, you know that depressions and hilltops are inverses of each other as are valleys and ridges.