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Thursday, 20 August 2020

Terrain Table T(h)ursday 20 August

For the past few days I have been slowly working on the terrain bases for the woodland and marsh pieces. So far I have glued 2mm (for the marshes) and 5mm styrofoam to MDF bases, removed the excess and beveled the edges with a hot-wire cutter, created dimples and puddles by heating the foam with a barbecue gas lighter, painting the MDF on the undersides, corrected the warping caused by the gas lighter and coated the foam with Vallejo dark earth texture paste.


Tomorrow (or possibly later tonight) I will be base-coating the texture and then will focus on the marsh pieces to get them out of the way.

The woodland/forest pieces will take a bit longer as I have all of these cheap trees to "improve":


Although I could just seal them to help stop the existing clump foliage dropping off, they do look a bit plain. My plan is to "highlight" the foliage with some fine flock and to drybrush and wash the trunks. After that they will get a sealing coat of varnish.



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4 comments:

  1. Dave Stone20 August 2020 at 19:17

    Off to a great start on these Tamsin, look forward to seeing them develop. Have you considered trimming the trees in places to make them a little less uniform before adding the flock ?

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  2. Herkybird21 August 2020 at 00:46

    I hope you have lots of tufts for those terrain bits!

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  3. TamsinP22 August 2020 at 18:00

    @ Dave Stone - I am considering that; it will also provide some branches to go on the ground. :)

    @ Herkybird - I'll probably apply patches of static grass rather than tufts for these. For the woodland/forest bases I will also be added dried herbs as leaf litter. :)

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    1. Herkybird22 August 2020 at 19:16

      Sounds good Tamsin! I will leaf it to you experts!

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