Mistakes were made....

With all this time I have on my hands with Covid, I've have wanted to try this for a long time.

Making molds for terrain. 

Now I bought a starter kit.  It was pretty simple after a bit of research.  But I did make a couple of  mistake that effected the silicon molds. One was what I used for a release agent, It was a spray on oil for cooking which I had seen others use but it may have gone on to thick even though I wiped off as much as I could. So I think I lost some detail because of that. One other mistake was that it wasn't sealed tight so there was some leakage.

But all is not lost, you live and learn and I will try again.

First attempt at weathering

I wanted to try new techniques that I really haven't tried before.

I bought 2x 1/48 airspeeders, which were more like 1/60-1/72 but still nice models. So I decided to make one into a terrain piece or an objective marker.  This is a WIP at the moment.

Landing gear made from spare parts

 

The falcon I picked up as well from a toy store whish will get painted at some time as well.

28mm obstacles

Terrain is always important to most games but more so for skirmish games.  I want to do a lot more terrain for Modern and or Sci-fi settings.

I'm a big WW2 fan, drawn in by many movies I watched as a kid in the 70's and 80's.

Here are some Generic obstacles and hopefully more to come.

 

  

Battletech Map moving forward

Another project that has been on the back burner was the 3d Battletech map.  Now its not 3d printed but I would like one but all done by hand so far.

I haven't done any rivers or lakes but its all testing at the moment.  I was concerned about putting acrylic paint on the foam matting but added PVA glue to help with adhesion. Not exactly happy with the map paint job but passable.

I highly recommend the Coarse Pumice Gel I found for the cliffs. I think they came up well. and it slightly strengthens the foam.