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2021 so far has been about two things hobby wise, a substantial commission taking up most of the miniature painting time, and a flurry of terrain building for the games studio, now I have the luxury of a permanent gaming space and plenty of storage.
So to breeze through the terrain:
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| American run down house |
This is one of the Renedra plastic kits, easy to build and really quite big, also different enough from the Perry American house that the two are not visually identical.
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| Mausoleum |
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| Dread Statuary |
These are from an Endertoys 3D print set, I got from Amazon for £20. Lots of parts and good value. But yes, you can totally see the printer lines; these are done from a plastic extrusion (?) style printer - the older type. Still no complaints for the price, and super quick to paint.
All these pictures are pulled from my Instagram by the way.
@Dean_AKI_UK.
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| Ancient Mediterranean Village |
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| Pig Sty, my favourite piece! |
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| Two storey house detail |
These were made from Foamcore, as you may be able to tell, but I used Wills plastic Pantiles for simplicity. The foamcore is skimmed with a wash of heavily diluted wall filler, the wooden beams are bamboo skewers; and the pig sty roof - my favourite piece - is a little bit of genius (humble, much?). For that I picked up a bamboo sushi rolling mat and cut out a section to cover the roof, making sure to superglue the bindings where I was to cut them (well before cutting) this made a simple roof suitable for a low quality farm building. To add to the effect I snapped a couple of beams. The fence is made of more bamboo, just chopped up and glued togerther.
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| 12 feet of 5" wide River |
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| 9 feet of 3" river and some specialist pieces |
Okay so maybe these are the pride and joy; and if I get round to it, totally worth a full tutorial. My makeshift foam river was a real let-down; so I undertook a major renovation, shifting to MDF rivers sections in two widths.
Well, that feels like quite a lot actually! So much so, that I should save the figure painting for another day.
A-bientot!
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Very nice, especially the Mediterranean village
ReplyDeleteExcellent. like all of those a lot.
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ReplyDeleteWhat an excellent range of terrain pieces. Those various buildings are particularly marvellous.
ReplyDeleteRegards, James
Beauty all around, great terrain pieces!
ReplyDeleteThose scratchbuilt buildings look splendid. Thinning down wall filler is nothing I had ever thought of before! I usually just slap the stuff on, which always poses a risk to window sills. So am definitely looking forward to trying this out.
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