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Post by Ah crap it's him on May 14, 2015 0:27:01 GMT -6
Hey question for the lot of you who have cool looking area terrain for buildings. What did you use to make the bottom of the base out of? Not the rubble bits, but the actual flat base board?
Mdf? Plastic? I just remember it being a thin material which nicely didn't warp with paint or basing.
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2015 0:44:22 GMT -6
MDF is great, but be sure to get some that is coated on one side otherwise it warps.
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2015 21:03:34 GMT -6
It all depends. I use MD for some terrain and foam core for others. It depends on how durable you want it to be, how quick and easy you want to get shit done, and what tools you have access to.
What are you looking to make?
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Post by Ah crap it's him on May 15, 2015 2:50:00 GMT -6
I got two imperial sector sets for just over $100 so I wanted to make some ruins to finally have good 40k terrain. All I'll be building tons of those and want to put them on small area terrain bases to give rubble and a good defined area of terrain effect.
MDF is fine but always seems so thick. Where as foam core just isn't very durable. i did find some MD that was thin, less than 1/4 inch but I wasn't sure if at that thickness you risk warping too badly to make it worth it.
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2015 20:51:52 GMT -6
The Imperial Sector buidings are great. If you're doing a city board you can put them on 1/4" MDF and just do straight cuts on a table saw. You can do foamcore if you're doing small stuff:  This building was on shaped foamcore. To toughen it up and give it some texture I put a thin layer of Elmer's Redi-Spack down before I put down my sand. The advantage of foamcore is it is really easy to shape. The important part of working with foamcore is limiting the opportunities for it to warp. Like most of the NDG terrain, this piece of scenery is on 1/8" MDF:  Another option is the "building movement tray". This is what I did for my home city table.  I put my buildings on pink foam bases and those bases are dropped onto a a movement tray of 1/4" MDF, with a 1" wide foamcore "sidewalk" lip. This allowed me to Have a swapable city structure.  This is a snippet of what that looks like. Lots of options. |
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2015 21:32:46 GMT -6
Shit nick, can you just teach me how to paint everything like a badass
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Post by Ah crap it's him on May 18, 2015 1:46:34 GMT -6
"finished" painting my first one. Going mat spray it and finish the second in the morning. I'll post the painted final product then  |
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Post by Ah crap it's him on May 18, 2015 13:00:28 GMT -6
Quick and dirty paint job  |
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Post by Nick P on May 18, 2015 13:20:11 GMT -6
Looks awesome man!
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Post by Ah crap it's him on May 18, 2015 17:26:07 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2015 18:25:00 GMT -6
Looks great man! Glad you threw down some tile in the middle too. The sandbags, tiling, and the ladder linking the platforms... That stuff adds so much.
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Post by Ah crap it's him on May 18, 2015 18:50:28 GMT -6
Haha especially because I'm doing the whole "two CPR spray" and "3 dry brush" and done speed terrain. But really having as basic as that looms amazing.
Especially considering before I had cardboard boxes...
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