Terrain – Page 11

Posted on April 30, 2018April 30, 2018 by maenoferren22

Greenstuff World Roll Maker

I have looked at these for a while….

and eventually bit the bullet.

I had a quick play and am rather impressed with the results.

In the pack you get six ridged plates and two edges.

The ridged plates are large, medium and small. I only had a go at the large plates.

There aren’t any instructions on the box but to be honest the pieces fit together in only two ways.

Straight:

And angled (45 degrees)

Make a thinnish roll of Greenstuff…place on the bottom plate, slide the top plate back and forth until the desired result is obtained.

My results were pretty good straight off. Once or twice I pressed to hard and flattened the roll. This meant I needed to take it out and redo.

The bottom left was the first attempt.

The rest followed.

The nice thing is…you can redo it!

I did find the angled way a bit tricky…this was user error rather than equipment error.

I simply removed one edge piece and obtained instant success. It may be the case that this is what you need to do.

After playing with the kit for 10 minutes I had a hunt on YouTube and there is a fair bit out there to help. This is the first that came up.

Greenstuff Roll Maker

Am I happy with it… Yes I am. If pushed to give it a score out of 10 I would give it an 8 just on my initial play around. The third video in the series above shows how to make longer wigglers. There is however a larger version.

I got mine from the Greenstuff EBay shop at the price of £11.99. I am wanting to make Alien hive scatter terrain so it will be used quite a bit. In hindsight I should have got the larger version, which is only a pound cheaper, but at the time Of purchase I didn’t notice it..

My wife, however, is convinced that I have lost the plot. She can’t work out why I have purchased a tool for making caterpillars!🐛🐛🐛🐛

Posted on April 25, 2018 by maenoferren22 · 2 Comments

More Lunchtime Crates

I spent a bit of time this lunchtime getting some more of the crates ‘built’

I still have half a dozen of the larger ones and one of the smaller ones to saw the planks into. I have two sitting there half finished too. I imagine they will look a lot better once they are painted.

By the time I am finished I will have 10 of each size. I was, however, considering making a double length one to see what it looks like. If I had thought about it earlier I would have done it with the smaller ones too.

Posted on April 18, 2018 by maenoferren22

Lunchtime Crates

Making crates – production line method

I decided to do some more crafting this lunchtime. I had sawed lines into a pile of cubes so I brought them in to get them sorted.

I found that the index cards are an ideal thickness as well as having a pile of lines on them. This meant that I would only have to measure the inner widths.

The first time I did this, I used a single length of card and then when it ran out I cut some more.

Each cube uses twelve lengths of card… I can get 6 x 20mm out of each piece of index card. Luckily I can also get 5 lengths of 25mm card.

I did a whole card to start with. I cut the strips out and folded each.

Once they were all folded I measured the required length of each cube face and cut these out.

It was then a simple case of adding them to the cubes with PVA. I like this glue to affix the card to the wood as it soaks into the card making it easier to bond them together.

Although seeming to be tedious, to begin with it actually meant that I did the four cubes in not much more time than I did two.

I am still to add cross pieces to all of the faces, however, part of me wonders whether I should bother.

Posted on April 13, 2018 by maenoferren22

Objective Markers

I decided to get these finished tonight.

I am really happy with how they came out. All of the items are GW plastic components saved up over the years.

I still think my favourite is this one.

It tells a sad little tale of someone being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Poor soul was having a rest behind the chest when a cannon ball spilt him in half.

Next up is another mini diorama

What information does the book hold or what lurks in the chest behind the wheel.

Here we have a scroll left on a barrel. Is it an important communication or simply a list of items sold at market. Perhaps the barrel contains something of value or is a booby trap to confound the unwary.

Finally is the way to Bogenwald…

This is a bit of a wierd one. When I started this blog I wanted a name for it. Rather than my name I thought I would come up with something a bit different. In my Wierd war campaign many years ago the heroes had to infiltrate a secret base near the town of Bogenwald. The name evidently stuck as it came to me when contemplating a title. Roll on a few months and as I am mooching around in my bits box I come across the sign showing the way to Bogenwald, oh and Schwartzhelm too.

To be honest I think I need to do a bit more work on the drum. It wasn’t the easiest thing to paint as there was very little detail.

Because of these my painting of figures has dropped behind tonight.

I managed to add a wash to the greatcoats and that is about it.

I hope to get them a lot further on tomorrow night.

Posted on March 29, 2018 by maenoferren22

A Great load of Crates

I love watching the crafting videos on YouTube. They are often on in the background whenever I am doing anything.

There are many very creative people out there. My Crates came about after watching Gareth over on DMG. He built a crate, which I thought was a cunning idea, and made my own version of it.

A few weeks later DM Scotty showed an even easier way to make a crate – a wooden cube painted to look like a crate. I thought this was rather cunning so ordered a set of 10 x 20mm cubes and 10 x 25mm cubes to give it a go. The two sets cost about £5.50 with free postage. They came all the way from China with free postage (I still cannot work out how that is financially viable).

Anyway, move forward a few weeks. The dreaded flu struck and my various bits and pieces sat there. Whilst in the recovery phase I watched Dungeons and Gluesticks. John was making crates too (all three videos probably spanned 3 years).

John also used the basic wooden cube but instead of just painting it, he used a razor saw to cut grooves into the cube. He then added the cardstock around the sides. It did look rather good.

I decided to give his version a go last night.

Mine are a bit rough and ready but they do indeed look like crates. I could probably use narrower strips of cardstock on the edges. However, seen on a table a metre away I don’t think it will really matter. I didn’t bother sawing into the sixth face of the cube as I am going to base a lot of them in groups to act as a line of sight blocker and/or cover.

I made another one today on my lunch break.

They are indeed very easy to do; they take a bit of time but look the part and in my mind well worth the small amount of effort it takes to build them.

Below are links to the channels I mentioned above.

Gareth, Scotty and John

https://www.youtube.com/user/TheDMGinfo

https://www.youtube.com/user/theDMsCraft

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZvZvalRLgkGXmFTpHEJBiw

Another couple of channels I watch a lot are as follows:

Vannessa on the Crafting Muse https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC92IlSbAqZY-TQv5pa4V1nQ

Black Magic crafts https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2Rlv-ug-mtnXuMwlpcqFgg

I have just started watching the following

Wyloch’s Craft https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrKJd7jQ989DZvtf5C69mYA

Posted on March 15, 2018March 15, 2018 by maenoferren22

Five Minute Makes

I was waiting for my daughter to get home so I made a speedy packing crate.

To be honest it isn’t the most elegant thing ever. But there was no measuring involved. It is made from a tongue depressor and some paper from an exercise book. Once the PVA is dry I will get it painted.

I used a second depressor to mark out the 4 sides.

These were cut out and placed on a piece of masking tape

Planks were etched into the pieces of wood (not shown here)

The tape had a tab left on one end and then folded in on itself so the tape was on the inside.

A bottom was then glued on and trimmed once dried.

The edging was folded in half and glued onto all edges. Cross pieces were cut out and added.

A lid was made and edged as above.

Posted on February 18, 2018 by maenoferren22

Even More Stamps

I decided to have another go working on some stamps.

I did three different ones, these were basically to test a theory.

The big tiles were pretty naff to be honest, the joints were too large. I was happy with the crazy paving and the cobblestones, which to be honest, I didn’t think would work.

I made a 9×9 tile with just cobblestones – giving myself a bit of a blister in the process!

I was quite happy with the results. There were some errors, but not bad for a first attempt.

Some of the indentations need deepening as can be seen by the joined up stones in the bottom left above. There were some worse bits but I painted in the cracks as well as added some cobblestones where the gaps were too large.

I might have a bash with the house paint and see how that works. It works out a whole lot cheaper than the Pebeo acrylics. These run at around £4.00 per 100ml tube. The house paint is a bit over £3.00 per 250ml. So a definite saving there. I probably drive them mad in the paint shop with my individual tester pots, on the up side, they have loads of colours to choose from.

The original idea came from DM Scotty

Posted on February 17, 2018February 17, 2018 by maenoferren22

Stamps Again’

I tried out a stamp on foam board. Sadly it isn’t Dollar tree stuff. This the paper won’t come of style. Sadly I couldn’t find any black or grey card to test it on. By the looks of it, it does work well in the table 🤪.

There might be something in this… However I am not really sure what I would use them for. A few things I have learned from this is to make sure the paint goes on thick enough to leave a mark. I am using extra thick paint, I might see how a thinned down version works.

It looks better if there are no large splodges of colour. I tried colouring individual stones, but to be honest it doesn’t really work.

I painted a dark background and to be honest it looks much better.👍

I am pleased with the results so far.

Thanks DMScotty!

I blasted off another stamp which can be seen at the top of the photo below.

The advantages of the 10mm blue foam is that it is waterproof and can be washed under the tap. It is a bit sturdier too being twice the thickness of the foam board. It also has the advantage of not having to have the paper removed.

The advantage of the foam board is that I can get it locally, it is easier to put even pressure on too.

I will have to make a 3×3 tile and compare the two types.

I do particularly like the planks.

Posted on February 15, 2018February 15, 2018 by maenoferren22