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Re: Terrain

From: Michael Robert Blair <pellinoire@y...>
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 09:35:41 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Re: Terrain

Foamcore is fairly durable. The bonus of adding
buttresses and other stiffeners is that it adds detail
and a third dimension to otherwise plain walls.
If you have a look in your local DIY shop (B & Q...)
you will find strips of wood and doweling. The Strips
are plain or shaped, some into very useful shapes for
a detail strip. The dowel includes fluted ones
suitable for pillars. For cheapskates you can get bags
of dowel pegs for woodworking that are fluted.

DIY shops are wonderful places to just walk around,
seeing the many and varied products, many of which
have interesting and useful shapes. I have also been
hoarding empty laser printer toner cartridges for
terrain making. The Oki and Xerox NC-60 printers might
be rubbish [ALL Oki LED printers that I have used have
been nothing but trouble and the NC-60 bled out (note:
NEVER buy a printer that needs an oil cartridge)] but
the cartridges are nice: The NC-60 toner especially
came in little hoppers that will make wonderful silos
for industrial terrain while the Oki ones, long
cylinders with flanges need a little bit more work to
use. Don't worry, the boring ones (HP) go for 'real'
recycling.

I have found some interesting ways of detailing
terrain:
Blowtorch - fine until the polystyrene caught fire,
then I bought a hot air gun (don't do this inside). A
surform is really much better but incredibly messy.

BB Gun. My brother loves to shoot up the buildings as
part of the distressing process. Airguns don't work as
well and though I am tempted to try a shotgun I
suspect that this is an unbelievable bad idea
(remember the hypervelocity penetrators in Drakes 'At
the Sharp End'?)

Wooden spills (thank you chemistry department) are
great for tatty wood, especially for half-timbered
buildings.

Michael

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