The problem I had once I’d built the snooker table, was the Station was now complete with the roof permanently fixed in place. To add more insult to my dilemma, the model is illuminated, and when the lights are on, there is a huge space where there would have been a snooker table. The only solution I could find to solve the problem, other than cut off the roof and try and fit it back in place, which would never be the same again in my eyes, was to build a second Fire Station. So, it was decided a second Station it is. This wasn’t a problem really because I enjoyed building this kit, and I’m sure I could find another home for the original one.
Anyhow I digress, I happened to show the snooker table I’d made on the Facebook Scalescenesmodelers group, and I was asked by a member, on how I’d fashioned the table? So here you are.
Firstly, I found a piece of 2mm white cardstock. Marked out a rectangle 48mm x 24mm, which in my experience is the size of a full-size snooker table, 12 x 6ft.
With green and brown marker pens, colour the playing surface
green, and the underneath and the frame brown. Take a fine tip pen or pencil
and mark the playing surface with the snooker table markings.
Once the glue is dried, take a bullet tip marker and colour
the pockets. Taking care to apply light pressure, as you don’t want to the surface to take too
much ink and bleed out, like it has on this one!!
The legs are next. These are made from a stash of orange
sticks, I obtained from a well-known online auction site. These are used by
women for manicuring. If you are brave enough, you may want to raid your good
lady’s make-up bag. (You’d be braver than me).
I cut six of these to 5mm lengths and coloured them with the
same brown marker. I nearly tried to
carve in some detail, to make them look like turned table legs, but I thought
that that was going a tad too far.
Fashion a couple of snooker cues from whatever you have at
hand. I used a paper clip and coloured it brown.