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Crystal terrain!

Posted by yansick on March 26, 2015
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A quick project for the gaming table: desert rocks with crystal formations.

I glued pieces of gardening cedar bark to small masonite bases with the glue gun. With the same hot glue, I placed plastic “gems” bought at the dollar store. For painting, it was easy: a basecoat of rusty brown, dry brush of ochre on the sand and dry brush of sand beige on the rocks and sand for the highlights. I also built an altar from a larger piece of bark, to which I added some of my homemade resin skulls.

Crystal formations…
Dollar store plastic “gems”
A sacrificial altar stone slab (with some of my homemade skulls!)

Easy, and a cool addition to my terrain pieces.

Yeah!

You want some desert?

Posted by yansick on March 17, 2015
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Recently, I’ve built some desert terrain for tabletop use. Simple pieces, mostly made from foamcore boards and stryrofoam.

The interesting thing here, is the use of cake decorations, namely wedding cake plastic columns, to create terrain. I used my trusty Dremel rotary tool to damage them and carve some grooves to suggest individual blocks. I used a piece of plasticard to close the top part, and used scrap parts of metal figures embed in putty to add weight to the bottom (so the columns would be less prone to fall once on the gaming table). The painting was kept to a minimum: yellow-ochre basecoat, followed by a wash of dark brown, then a drybrushing of sand beige.

Boom! Quick and simple!

“The cake is a lie…”
Simple but effective architecture.
Just another brick in the wall…
Wall closeup.
All the pieces together.

Enjoy the pics!