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Title: Card Board Ruins
Description: well not all card board


Sotek - January 20, 2008 06:58 AM (GMT)
hi every body
just thought id post som picks of a small terrain set i made not to long ago. so enjoy!
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extra bits i made for it
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the cannon
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all together
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so thats it
untill next time
Sotek

Digits - January 20, 2008 05:43 PM (GMT)
Not bad mate! A table full of this stuff can look very effective.

One tip though which I've seen done. Fill the corner corrugations with tetrion (or any builders putty) then give the whole cardboard structure a coat of textured masonary paint before colouring it. It then looks a lot less like cardboard and helps it to hold it's shape better.

What have you made the bricks from?

Sotek - January 21, 2008 12:42 AM (GMT)
Thanks for the reply mate. im planning on making some more ruins with trenches in between them of sorts
thanks for the suggesting the builders putty and Masonary paint i'll look into it.

oh and the bricks are individualy cut bits of foam.(because i have 0 Greenstuff experience :( )

Digits - January 21, 2008 10:57 AM (GMT)
Don't worry about that! Trying to make that amount of bricks from GS would cost you a mint! lol

If you are going to make a lot of them, it could be worth investing in a simple brick mould from Hirst Arts (about £20) and casting them in plaster.

Good luck with the rest of the buildings.

bram kuijpers - January 21, 2008 11:09 AM (GMT)
instead you could use a mix off white bird sand and wood gleu, it looks good on bases and it should work maybe you should try it?

Severian - January 21, 2008 05:10 PM (GMT)
Nice idea fella, To cover the corrugation on the edges you could mask it with ... wait for it ... masking tape. Then give it a base coat of paint to seal it. Then apply some polly filla with a small bit of fine sand mixed in(don't know what it is called in the UK but you use it to fill in cracks and small holes in walls). this gives a nice texture and hides the cardboard. Also works well with polystyrene.

Oh, nice gun. ;)

Easy E - January 21, 2008 07:57 PM (GMT)

Sotek - January 22, 2008 12:46 AM (GMT)
thank you every one for such useful advice and help with how to improve my terrain.





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