The final "natural" terrain features I am making for this project are some basic hills. These are dead simple. All you need is some scrap cardboard, some styrofoam, some texture paint and other scenic material. The tools I'm using are scissors (to cut out the cardboard), my hot wire foam cutter, 220 grit sandpaper and a hot glue gun. This will round out a good collection of terrain for my desert table.
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| Some simple shapes cut from pieces of a cardboard box. |
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| I used hot glue to attach pieces of styrofoam to the cardboard. |
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| I used a hot wire cutter, holding it at an angle, to cut out the rough hill shape. |
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| I used 220 grit sandpaper to smooth the styrofoam and "erase" the cut lines left by the hot wire cutter. Sanding also helps reduce the transition from the slope to the flat top, adding realism. |
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Each piece received a generous coat of Desert Yellow texture paint.
You can see how the texture paint fills in some of the smaller holes and cracks in the foam. |
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| When that dried, I gave them a quick highlight with Desert Yellow mixed with Ivory, then pure Ivory. I got a little heavy handed here but it worked out fine. |
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| Finally, I added some scenery flock and gray ballast sprayed with a 50/50 mix of white glue and water. I spilled a big bit of gray ballast on the one but I'm not worried about it. |
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| Here they are on the table. They blend reasonably well. |
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| Closeup "model's eye view" of the larger hill. |
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| All of the desert terrain I've built for this project so far. I don't need any more "natural" features but I will do some buildings for some outposts. Eventually I might make an oasis, just to add some trees, but that won't be for a while. |
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| Monoliths and rough patches. |
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| Hill/dune and monoliths. |
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| Hill/dune, monoliths and rough patches. |
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| More or less straight down, overhead view. |
That's it for now. I hope you've enjoyed my documenting this project so far. I'm still working on making some buildings and painting figures. I hope to post my completed Earth Force platoon next week. Until then, carry on!
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