First up, the hills.
These are made from thick polystyrene sheet, with card bases. They're shaped using a (very) sharp craft knife. They are designed to fit into A4 boxes (that printer paper comes in), so have been made moduluar. Each half will fit into the box. There are four sections, so I can either have two large hills, or four smaller ones around the table edges.
To make it the hills a little more passable to troops, I've carvbed out some lower levels for them.
Next the sandbags. These have been made out of plasticine, on a card base. They are sized to hold 2-4 models. The first has made use of a chunk of exposed rock.
The sandbags were given a coat of PVA glue to give them a hard coating, as the stuff doesn't set. Then, a base coat of Graveyard Earth.
Next, everything needs a dry brush highlight. I'm planning on using a light greay for the rock faces. Not sure about the rest. The flat parts of the hills will be highlighted, then flocked. This may sound daft, since the flock will cover the paint, but I know flock will come off with time and wear - this way it won't look odd where the flock comes off.
WOOW. Beautiful. Makes me want to do that too. the hills looks great, like made of mud. i loved playing with mud when i was little. Still do.
ReplyDeleteI so very interesting, i wish i had a big place and a room dedicated only for doing stuff like that.