Dough terrain

I cooked this ugly pan of salt dough weeks ago. Lots of grreat crackly texture. Finally painted it with the usual gray rocky colors. Can you guess what's next?

Hab block

This is similar to the dust tactics tenements i see for sale. Made the blueprints myself although i need to adjust them and i need a better way to cut clean edges. Use a sharp razor. Found out i could plunge the tip of my craft knife through a wall while it was lying down, catch the tip on the cutting board and move the wall instead of the blade to finish cutting out the windows. That technique might allow me to cut some very fine designs later.
This building will need a. Lot of detail work but making multi story ruins sounds easy in comparison. Time to hit walmart for more Elmer's foam board ... and new razor blades.

Two trios of terrain

Here are the makings of three wooded discs and three rocky outcrop discs. We use old CDs (classic rock i am tired of) as the bases. Pine cones as trees and lumps of coal and other random rocks as ... rocks. More pics later.

Update: 4 discs look like something now. Loving the old rasp i nabbed at a yard sale for 25 cents. It made a great texture of porous rock on the all foam disc. Worked in some trees and maple bark rocks for the others. Gluing ...

Finished ruins

Wow. I think this turned out fantastically. Fantasy? I admit it's not very sci-fi but that's fine. Again, this is based on miniwargaming's great video tutorial. Foam board. I used two kinds of static grass because i do not have fine turf (ground foam). Base made from paneling because i do not have masonite. Painted with cheap craft paints from Walmart (Apple Barrel - made in the USA). Now if only my bark would dry out so i can make rock terrain ...

Molding and carving

Still working on terrain although a bit of life has happened lately. Here are some photos of easy modular gaming hills made from high density foam and some molding experiments using salvaged food containers. The joint compound was waaay too thick to dry properly if at all. I am hopeful that this paper mache pulp will for good pieces but i don't even know what it should feel like sooo i will let you know.

Hope from the mayfly

I created this meme a few weeks ago. Didn't go viral on Facebook like I was hoping but I still like it. Enjoy.

Ruins terrain for 40k

Finally got around to whipping up some ruins terrain from foam board and hardboard (masonite). It was as easy as miniwargaming made it look in their video and tons of fun. All u need is a razor knife and elmer's glue.