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Hi all
As Junior and I have very little terrain for our battles, this spring and summer wedecided to do some roads.
We got the idea from someone on a YouTube called Mel Bose aka The Terrain Tutor (link here). His techniques are simple and generally use inexpensive items you find at home or DIY stores, rather than expensive modelling supplies.
He's got an interesting back story - ex-army, suffered serious mental health issues meaning he had to give up work but his terrain modelling and associated channel have helped him a lot with his recovery. He also comes across as very genuine and is not afraid to show where it goes wrong unlike a lot of people I've seen, which I find invaluable. He must be doing something right as he's got 12+million views(!!!!), 127k subscribers and has crowdfunded for a terrain making book that is 500% funded.
Obviously being for wargaming these are very styalised and not meant to be super realistic but for us they are perfect
In terms of making the roads the process goes like this:
This was a real joint effort between junior and and we had a great time.
I've included a couple of progress pics too so you can see how it went (Mods - hope that's ok as I know this is for completed work only)
ACW as usual!!
Andrew
*Look out for the rabbit hole, for which I have a cunning plan!!
**For the road we used the underside of black roofing felt. I have 6sqm of it lying around after re-roofing the shed last year, which works out at a round 31,000 sqm scaled up from 1/72 (just over (1,000,000 sq ft)
*** Si, Bob sorry for boring you with this again.....
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As Junior and I have very little terrain for our battles, this spring and summer wedecided to do some roads.
We got the idea from someone on a YouTube called Mel Bose aka The Terrain Tutor (link here). His techniques are simple and generally use inexpensive items you find at home or DIY stores, rather than expensive modelling supplies.
He's got an interesting back story - ex-army, suffered serious mental health issues meaning he had to give up work but his terrain modelling and associated channel have helped him a lot with his recovery. He also comes across as very genuine and is not afraid to show where it goes wrong unlike a lot of people I've seen, which I find invaluable. He must be doing something right as he's got 12+million views(!!!!), 127k subscribers and has crowdfunded for a terrain making book that is 500% funded.
Obviously being for wargaming these are very styalised and not meant to be super realistic but for us they are perfect
In terms of making the roads the process goes like this:
- Find a basing material - in our case 3mm mdf and fibreboard.
- Cut to desired width - straights in our case are a 3.5" strip cut width-ways across an A4 sheet of the basing material.
- Glue lollipop sticks length-ways to the sides to stop warping.
- Cut road surface** to measure - 2.5" wide - and glue on.
- Cover lollipop sticks with filler to create the base for the 'verge'.
- PVA and grit to cover the filler as a first pass, then paint dark brown.
- Cover in green flocking (home made by moi [still needs some refinement]), add some bushes and job done. (see below)
This was a real joint effort between junior and and we had a great time.
I've included a couple of progress pics too so you can see how it went (Mods - hope that's ok as I know this is for completed work only)
ACW as usual!!
Andrew
*Look out for the rabbit hole, for which I have a cunning plan!!
**For the road we used the underside of black roofing felt. I have 6sqm of it lying around after re-roofing the shed last year, which works out at a round 31,000 sqm scaled up from 1/72 (just over (1,000,000 sq ft)
*** Si, Bob sorry for boring you with this again.....
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