SotF's Work

[sotf]

Well, painting is done, and I attached the ferns...still need to flock and add leaf litter (And cover up the little bits that are visible hot glue to attach the ferns).

[sotf]

And finally done with the basic flocking...not entirely dry as of yet, but it's on.

Not the best pics due to the time, but, I got the flock on and it's waiting to finish drying for leaf litter additions.

[nvdberg]

Those ferns came out great.

[sotf]

Nov 11, 2015 4:42:57 GMT nvdberg said:

Those ferns came out great.

They actually look a lot less glossy in person as well...gave them a dip in a dark green wash I had. Unfortunately the pics seem to pick up more of the plasticy issues that don't seem to be there anymore.

[dragon722]

Nov 11, 2015 5:19:01 GMT sotf said:

Nov 11, 2015 4:42:57 GMT nvdberg said:

Those ferns came out great.

They actually look a lot less glossy in person as well...gave them a dip in a dark green wash I had. Unfortunately the pics seem to pick up more of the plasticy issues that don't seem to be there anymore.

I think they came out great and inspire me to make some to after seeing yours 

[bluecloud2k2]

Yeah I am tempted to make some of my own with magnetic tops so I can put a treetop village on them.

[sotf]

Nov 11, 2015 7:24:18 GMT bluecloud2k2 said:

Yeah I am tempted to make some of my own with magnetic tops so I can put a treetop village on them.

They tend to be wide enough that you might not need to do so, but extra grip never hurts

[sgtslag]

Agreed: very inspiring, and very useful for gaming. Will be filing these away for future reference. Cheers, and Exalt!

[sotf]

Well, added leaf litter and got some half decent pics...still need to seal them, but realized that I was out of the varnish I normally use, so I'll be waiting a bit there. And Photobucket seems to have been unable to keep some of them oriented correctly...

And as I haven't shown the Triceratops before, I've got a few of him. He's one of the older ones that I did and rarely get to use...mainly because until the dust coated him, he'd ended up quite sticky from the primer I used on him, but it worked out in the end.

One of the nice things about dinosaurs is that you can find a lot of them that are either on or close enough to scale to work for extremely cheap with just a paint job.

[bluecloud2k2]

And they are easily modified into other monsters.

[DnDPaladin]

those are nice trees for sure.

adding onto the addons to go on top of them in order to help those climbing people into it. i'm simply adding weight to the middle of the thing so that when i put my addon on top of it. it will not top over if someone puts a mini on the edges.

been working great.
Modular trees for the win !

[sotf]

Nov 12, 2015 7:20:34 GMT DnDPaladin said:

those are nice trees for sure.

adding onto the addons to go on top of them in order to help those climbing people into it. i'm simply adding weight to the middle of the thing so that when i put my addon on top of it. it will not top over if someone puts a mini on the edges.

been working great.
Modular trees for the win !

Actually, now that I think of it, if you add a washer or magnet into the top, and the other in the bottom of a trunk piece or a platform it there could easily be more vertical pieces for when needed while making them stackable.

[bluecloud2k2]

See? Magnets For The Win!

[DnDPaladin]

wasn't that what you were aiming for when you said you had tops to go along with this ?
huh, i thought it was what you were doing. in any case its barely ever usefull to have higher trees. but aerial encounters sometimes have their charms even if rares.

[sotf]

Nov 12, 2015 20:32:12 GMT DnDPaladin said:

wasn't that what you were aiming for when you said you had tops to go along with this ?
huh, i thought it was what you were doing. in any case its barely ever usefull to have higher trees. but aerial encounters sometimes have their charms even if rares.

I have other things that I would be using for treetops, this is for forest floor stuff where the canopy actually makes it harder to play with because you need to work through it to do anything or just concealing things that the players should be able to see.

I have a set of wooden platforms and stuff for a treetop village for an ewok village I built years ago. A few people at the local store decided that we'd play the WotC SW minis game on a far larger scale and built some terrain for it along with adding other effects to the mix.

Just need to figure out which boxes I have the stuff in since I'd packed it away. Or I might just make new ones, they were relatively easy to assemble in the first place with mainly being craft sticks cut and glued onto cardstock and I wouldn't need to disassemble the various risers off of them.

I also used to have some full redwoods that I did at one point...donated those to the game stores terrain stockpile for instore gaming because they were a pain to store and even more of a pain to use. Those needed pvc pipe and looked somewhat small in the long run anyway.

[sotf]

Working on a small frontier type settlement that ties into the trees I did earlier. Just two buildings completed so far (And the cabin still has a flourish I have ordered to finish it, but it's painted enough to use), and I have a few more of the cabins that I bought to assemble and I'm thinking of grabbing a bunch more to utilize for other things that match the looks.

The Cabin

The Outhouse





Scale Pics

[margaret]

Thanks for showing us what the cabins look like when assembled!

[sotf]

Dec 21, 2016 17:52:54 GMT margaret said:

Thanks for showing us what the cabins look like when assembled!

It's one of the things I've seen a lot of people locally use for more Colonial and Frontier games that look great and are a steal at $3.99 each. Simple as hell to put together as they largely go together like Lincoln logs. Sure the door and chimney that come with it aren't that impressive, but that's easily fixed.

If you get them though, pay attention to the roof pieces when your putting them on, they are cut so as to meet in the middle and it's a pain to pull them back off if you get one (or both) on wrong.

I've got a pack of bull skull charms that I ordered online that I plan on mounting on either this cabin or another once they're painted up.

I'm planning on using groups of the sets to also make a few other buildings such as a watch tower and water mill, potentially also a bridge. A smoke house would be a rather easy modification as well.

Corrugated cardboard with one cover peeled off and use tacky glue to attach it to the base. Make sure that when you cut the field, you need to keep from starting in the middle of a corrugation but try to keep view-able on the edges. Then take your hot glue gun and run it down the exposed corrugation to also texture it the same way Scotty does and either use a thicker bead around the piece to hide the exposed corrugation or use gravel or stones to line the edges of it in order to ring the field or garden. Take white glue and give the fields a thin layer of it and sprinkle fine sand over it and let it dry. Then paint it a darker dirt tone than you use for your normal dirt. Then along the ridges run some white glue and lightly sprinkle some heavier flock (Green tea works great for it) and let dry.

[DnDPaladin]

how did you do the field ?

[sotf]

Take corrugated cardboard that has corrugations of a size you like for your field and cut it to the shape of the field you want. Try to keep the corrugation closed on the sides along with the corrugation.

Then take the base you want to use, and you want a somewhat heavier one for it because this will warp stuff that's not nicely done and you want a base that has at least a half inch on all sides from your cardboard. Glue the cardboard to the base so that the edges of the field are towards the base with white glue, tacky glue, or spray. Hot glue is not a good idea for this step because it distorts it.

Once the glue is set, peel the top layer of corrugation cover off to expose the corrugation. You don't need to be that neat with this, but only in that if the layer comes apart it doesn't go through the corrugation.

Take your small hot glue gun and use it to texture and reinforce the corrugation. Essentially use a little bit of hot glue and keep moving your tip back and forth to spread it out and keep the basic shape but add texture as Scotty does to things and make it stronger.

Then use your glue gun to work around the edges of the field with exposed corrugation to cover the exposed corrugation.

Now, either use the glue gun as Scotty does to make a ring of stones or use pebbles/aquarium gravel with white glue to create a boundary. Let it dry completely.

Use an old brush to apply a thin layer of white glue over the field and giver it a layer of fine sand and let it dry (Adding some sand to the rest of the base at the same time is something you can do at this time as well).

Prime the piece.

Paint the field a slightly darker shade than your normal dirt, it works to differentiate the worked ground from the rest.

Once the paint is dry, use your brush to carefully run a thin bead of glue over the tops of the corrugation and sprinkle a "heavier" flock such as the stuff from the inside of cheap green tea bags over it. You don't want complete cover, but you want some on that it's noticeable.

When it dries, you've got your plowed up field.

For plants in it, for corn, I've used ones I bought from the scenics at Hobby Lobby. Corn stalks are far harder to create than a lot of others.

Pumpkins are doable with wire and some of the cheap pumpkin beads.

For cabbages, look for the small paper roses that some stores carry, Look for white or a light green and give them a few green washes, letting them dry completely between washes.