Miniature Battles Terrain

RyanDarkstar · Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2019 10:15 pm Post subject: Miniature Battles Terrain

Here is some of the scatter terrain I've been assembling for miniature battles.

First off, I present palm tree scatter (click for larger image):

To make, I shaved down 1/2" insulation foam, hot glued the palm trees to the foam, and then PVA glued white sand. After the glue dried, I painted the sand tan and dry brushed an off-white. Lastly, I hollowed out the bottom and hot glued in some 1" fender washers for support.
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RyanDarkstar · Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2019 10:28 pm Post subject:

Next up, some jungle scatter.

I started off with caulking some old CDs, shaping the caulk into some uneven ground.

After that dried, I PVA glued on some Quikcrete and flocking and hot glued some aquarium rocks and plants. In the last two pics are some palm tree cake toppers with some Quikcrete glued on.

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RyanDarkstar · Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2019 10:42 pm Post subject:

More of the same only this time more temperate terrain.

Assembly was the same as above, though instead of caulk, I used spackle to similar results. The trees were purchased at various hobby stores over the years. Leeroy Jenkins is a 30mm mini used for scale with the bonsai tree, while my 28mm stromtrooper officer roams the deciduous and conifer trees.

edit: fixed URL
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RyanDarkstar · Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2019 10:51 pm Post subject:

Back to the 1/2" foam, I shaved down some lumps and PVA glued on some aquarium gravel. Took forever to dry. Then I set to work making tufts of grass out of cheap Dollar Tree twine. I unraveled the string, looped the strands around my fingers, and then snipped all of the loops. A dab of hot glue and voila! (I made the mistake of cooling them on plastic...which melted. I switched to baking paper later.)

The tufts were trimmed and then attached to the rock piles. A wash and drybrush and I called it complete.

The nice thing is these rocky lumps work in just about any terrain - desert, tundra, hills - anywhere vegetation is sparse.
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RyanDarkstar · Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2019 11:04 pm Post subject:

Lastly, I went to the Dollar Tree and bought some ninja sticks.

I chopped off the handles and hot glued the "wood" part to some more CDs. Then it was spackle, followed by Quikcrete, and finally touching up with some paint to cover my sloppy spackling.

The bases look boring, but I ran out of hot glue, and then bought the wrong size, so I'll update when I have the rest of the greenery attached.
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Whill · Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2019 11:18 pm Post subject:

Ryan, thanks for sharing, but going forward please make sure that images or combination of images side-by-side are no more than a total of 750 pixels wide. For these images, more than two beside each other makes the thread page too wide and requires right-left scroll bar usage. I went ahead an edited your posts this time, but FYI I lost one of your hyperlinks in the process.

Thanks.
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garhkal · Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2019 2:36 am Post subject:

Nice work. Though you must have a large collection of old CD's for doing that.
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RyanDarkstar · Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2019 8:53 am Post subject:

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Glad to see someone else doing something with SWMB!

RyanDarkstar · Posted: Sat May 23, 2020 10:24 am Post subject:

Modular Hedge Maze made from ScotchBrite scouring pads mounted to coffee stir sticks.

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RyanDarkstar · Posted: Sat May 23, 2020 10:27 am Post subject:

Tatooine-style Homesteads made from styrofoam ball, foam and caulk.

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RyanDarkstar · Posted: Sat May 23, 2020 10:41 am Post subject:

Crates - Dollar Tree foam counting blocks. Indentations were made by pressing a Bic pen tube into the middle of the faces and then drawing lines with the reassembled pen. I'll probably paint them and add stencils and/or labels at some point.

MadCatTog on eBay sells some nice decals.
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RyanDarkstar · Posted: Sat May 23, 2020 10:53 am Post subject:

I added foliage to bases of the big trunks.

Some action shots with Wizards of the Coast minis and Hot Wheels speederbikes (which scale very nicely):

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RyanDarkstar · Posted: Sat May 23, 2020 11:02 am Post subject:

Mining Guild TIE Fighters - trimmed wings of Micro Machines Battle-damaged TIES, added Green Stuff to fill some trim, repainted and super-glued tiny laser-printed emblems. (Note: these were painted without my magnifying headset and with shaky hands. They looks okay on the table, though.)

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RyanDarkstar · Posted: Sat May 23, 2020 11:08 am Post subject:

Kerestian Bounty Hunter (from modified Duros Scoundrel mini)

(edit: added picture of mini with Green Stuff)

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