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.