Hashima Island Mini Golf Course Hole Update

So I have decided to shift my idea of a war memorial mini golf course hole to a miniature replica of Hashima Island, better known as Battleship Island off the coast of Japan. Hashima Island is a coal mining facility that was abandoned in the 1960's. It is off limits and highly fascinating due to the way that the structures are being broken down by sea water and decay. I started with the base to look like a battleship:

This will be my base that will house the buildings I will be putting on and around the mini golf course hole.


Here are a few more pictures of my Pepakura cut outs for some of the buildings as well as my original idea for the golf course hole. I decided to go with something more simple and use rectangles instead to build a golf course. So I went from this:

To this basic shape which I will be duplicating and using to put together the course in a simpler way:

Pepakura was making it very difficult to cut out the entire mini course so I had to break it down into simpler shapes to make it more time manageable.


Here are a few screen shots of my buildings that I will be using.

So basically it will be a Battleship base, with a few old looking buildings, and a course in the midst of the buildings. My idea behind this rose yet again from my fascination with abandoned cities and institutions around the world. I love the idea of bringing life back into something that has been long forgotten. Such as a mini golf course hole with green astro turf in the middle of a long lost city, or how nature reclaims these forgotten places and in time they become more fascinating in my opinion than they do when they are completely run by human beings.


Leaving off here are a couple more things I will be focusing on this weekend:
1. Spray painting my pieces.
2. Painting details.
3. Cutting out holes for the golf course.
4. Finding some astro turf floor mat.

And to leave off here are a couple of real photos of Hashima Island.

Mini Golf Hole

I decided to focus my mini golf hole around something more serious. I think a mini golf hole that reflects on a memorial for war would definitely be something you wouldn't normally see at a mini golf course. While often times there are whimsical creatures and interesting obstacles at mini golf courses, my idea stems around something more real and evasive. I decided to set it up so that there are many different holes that one must traverse through the course. Each hole has something written in the bottom of it, preferably the name of a fallen soldier, the year they lost their life at war, the place, and location the soldier was from. That way when people reach down to get their golf ball from the hole they will notice the text printed in the bottom. This will reflect on American war causalities only. The replica of the flag and gun will be a reminder of what exactly this mini golf course entails.

I wasn't sure what other decorations would be necessary for this particular golf hole. It starts out with each individual lining their ball up with the red dot and then putting from there. Each time they make it through an obstacle they must retrieve their ball line it up with any of the red dots nearby and try for another hole in one. The object is to move across the course and see the names of those who lost their lives in war printed within the courses various holes. I would also like to maybe make some kind of sign or a wall added to the back with even more causality names to make the idea more apparent, if the gun and flag doesn't already speak for itself. Here are some pictures below.

Pepakura Mario Coin

For my Pepakura 3D cut out object I chose to do something simple so that I could get the hang of how to use this software. This coin was pretty simple but tricky to put together.