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There are many ways to make a model, some more expensive than others and some with better results than others. Although, I have to admit that I have fallen in love with this method, how fun it is to make them and the low cost of manufacturing.
Not to mention the few tools I'm going to be using, a small pliers to cut the toothpicks and a glue gun with their respective sticks.
This is going to be quite repetitive to tell the truth, so I'll be uploading the parts and saying what I'm going to do with them.
The first thing was to make 8 pieces of 4,5x5,5x3,5, with these we will make an octagon, it will be the base of our windmill
The second will be more of the same, 8 more pieces, although you are 4x5x4, with which we will also make an octagon.
This will be the second floor of our mill, we should not worry if it is not perfectly aligned with the previous octagon, since we will put some spacers at the end
Third, we will make another octagon, although this time with longer pieces. More specifically from 2,5x4x8.
These will make up the upper part of our mill and this must be perfectly aligned with the previous one.
We arrive at the point of the dome, in this case it is also an octagon, but two of its sides are longer than the rest, so there would be 6 pieces of 2,5x3x2,5 Plus another 2 pieces of 3x4x2,5, which will make the final octagon
On top of that, we will make an octagon, also with two parts longer than the others and we will complete with small pieces, which I will not say measurements because as we assemble, these spaces can vary
In the end we put everything together, in the order in which we built it. At the junction of the base with the first floor, we add some small projections, there we are going to place some crosswise shaped sticks as a floor. We will do the same in the union of the dome and the body of the structure
Last but not least, the blades of the windmill. I thought this would be the most difficult, but it was actually the easiest to do, I just made rectangles and then joined them together
And so, after about 9 hours of work, I finished my first model made entirely with toothpicks.
I honestly loved doing it, although it's a lot of work, it's very repetitive and you can improve the technique each time, that is, you start by placing the corners first, for example, and then you evolve and realize that otherwise it's better... you go thinking how to improve throughout the process
One thing that I couldn't improve on is the use of silicone. On youtube they make it seem very easy, but believe me it is not, if you add a little it doesn't stick and if you add a lot it looks ugly.
Another thing is the temperature, if it's not that hot it doesn't stick either, but if it's too hot it takes too long to dry, anyway, it was super fun and it was worth every burn