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creating forest terrain piece
Posted: 30 Sep 2008, o 13:08
by Demi_morgana
some time ago (about 1,5 year ago iirc
) I got some cheap trees made for games in mini scale (mechwarrior, epic, cav); I didn't have any idea what to do with them until I got seriously interested in cav;
I want to make piece of forest so artillery has a place to hide in but I'm wondering about one thing: the base
I want to place trees on rather flat base (cav models are rather short after all) but I'm not sure what meterial would be the best: styrofoam (
sturodur to be more specific) is light and easy to work on but rather fragile, sheet of cork seems to be more durable but I know sometimes cork starts bending especially when there's glue on it...
any ideas? Eljot?
RE: creating forest terrain piece
Posted: 30 Sep 2008, o 13:11
by ToMaZ
Broken or old CD's + trees + sand and polyfiller (gapfiller) is what my friends and I used.
RE: creating forest terrain piece
Posted: 30 Sep 2008, o 13:20
by Nameless
PVC sheet? they can be as thick/flat as you want them to be, you can cut/phase edges so that base looks more natural, and make small holes to stick trees in it.
RE: creating forest terrain piece
Posted: 30 Sep 2008, o 13:29
by Demi_morgana
thanks for the tips guys,
CD is too small for 30 trees but PVC should to the job! I have piece of pvc but it's about 5mm thick
I think I'll drop in advert agency and as them if they don't have some pvc for devoted modeller
RE: creating forest terrain piece
Posted: 30 Sep 2008, o 13:46
by ToMaZ
You can always take multiple cd's...
RE: creating forest terrain piece
Posted: 30 Sep 2008, o 13:55
by Demi_morgana
I think I'd rather use services of Nameless' store
Re: creating forest terrain piece
Posted: 1 Oct 2008, o 16:38
by Eljot
Demi_morgana wrote:
any ideas? Eljot?
very funny, very funny Demi you malicious jester... You know I don't speak English...
very well...
at all...
...
send me mail about your modelling problems... in Polish... owkorZ
RE: Re: creating forest terrain piece
Posted: 10 Oct 2008, o 17:36
by Demi_morgana
ok, here are 2 pics: size of CAV models and wip of wood - it's crappy but if must be functional for gaming:
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apc is almost 2cm high including the turret, trooper is ~1,2cm tall + the base
RE: Re: creating forest terrain piece
Posted: 11 Oct 2008, o 10:48
by mahon
Either add bases to the APCs or mount infantry on thinner bases. The forest is a bit thin but better for gaming
Wanna play CAV?
Re: RE: Re: creating forest terrain piece
Posted: 11 Oct 2008, o 14:37
by Demi_morgana
mahon wrote:Either add bases to the APCs or mount infantry on thinner bases.
I will base vehicles - there were no bases in blisters so i had to get molds and cast my own
mahon wrote:The forest is a bit thin but better for gaming
I know it's thin - it looks more like a nursery than wood but there must be enough space for hex-bases
mahon wrote:Wanna play CAV?
I've always wanted to start playing game in such a small scale, I didn't manage to find anyone here to play epic so I hope I'll achieve success with CAV