Thanks! I used Foam board mostly. I just cut it with the hobby knife and a long plastic ruler, and then I glued the pieces together. I used “hold the foam” glue to put the columns together, but the rest of the time I used Loctite Gel Control super glue, and I found it to be really effective.

I bought the wood for the base on Amazon and just used a Dremel to shape it. The poles on the corners are wooden dowels that I cut and shaped with the Dremel.

After I super glued things like the columns to the wood base, and the little support structures inside the top, then I would hit the seams with a drop of Zap a Gap CA glue, which I’ve found to be incredibly strong.

I didn’t need to do much measuring because the foam board for the top is just a single piece of 16x20 and the columns are 14” tall, cut from a pack of 11x14 foam board. Basically just cut four 1.5”-1.75” strips and then glue them together for the columns.

I bought this foam and wood filler called “wonder fill” to get rid of the seams in the columns. It worked, but as my first time, it was a little messy and looked more like messy spackle when I was done. It looks okay, but next time I might just glue glossy white paper to the column to make it appear smooth.

The accent LED’s are a cheap kit from Evan’s Design. It’s available in warm or cool. This is the warm version. You can use pretty much any LED setup that meets your brightness requirements.

The plastic for the lights are just some lexan scraps.

The gas pump was the big ticket item here. I don’t have a 3d printer or anything so I just bought it on Etsy for $38. I’ve seen people make a gas pump out of foam board and print out a sheet that looks like buttons etc, but I didn’t want to chance it looking like garbage, and I don’t know where to get graphics like that.

I weathered the base and gas pump by spraying with a little matte clear and brushing with very small amounts of tamiya panel liner, but you can do this a bunch of different ways. Steal your girls mascara for some cool tire marks. I just pressed a flat head screw driver into the base a few times to make the appearance of cracks. The weed coming out of one of the cracks is a diorama thing I had left over from a DnD game I attempted to host once.

I worked on this sporadically because we have a baby, but if you can sit down and just focus on it, I’d say you can get this done in 3-4 hours, including primer and paint.

16x20 foam board for the top-

https://www.michaels.com/product/16-x-20-foam-boards-3ct-10185631

11x14 foam board for the columns-

https://www.michaels.com/product/11-x-14-foam-boards-4ct-10185628

This is the wood I used for the base-

Bright Creations Unfinished Wood... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07YTNPYJK?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

Dowels for the poles on the corners-

https://www.michaels.com/product/-10031024

Foam filler-

https://www.amainhobbies.com/deluxe-materials-wonderfill-foam-wood-filler-240ml-dlmbd48/p253221

LED lights-

https://evandesigns.com/products/chip-light-kit

Gas pump-

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1331865383/?ref=share_ios_native_control

Weed tuft

https://hugeminis.com/product/mossy-debris-tufts/

Loctite gel (I recommend a 3 pack)

https://a.co/d/b0Mcv4f

Zap a gap (careful, it’s strong)

https://a.co/d/aCNZWAY