Tired of Throwing Away all Those Piles of Sprue? Turn it into Very Cheap, Yet Effective Scenery!

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**Runer60000**

Wanting to help as many people as I can, I thought I would bring my tutorial from Second Sphere over here. The only purchase necessary is plastic glue, and a pair of clippers if you think its necessary, because this will involve a lot of cutting. I must warn you to be careful, this process can produce flying shrapnel in the form of tiny plastic bits.

Other than that, I think this a great way to use up sprue that you have lying around, it will give you some use out of all that sprue you purchased, and less sprue being thrown away means less pollution and trash!

Everyone wins!

Now, if you're really going for a high-quality set of scenery that your willing to invest a lot of money/time/materials into, this isn't for you, but if all you want is some simple scenery for a gaming table at home(like me), or your just looking for something interesting to build(I find this is a great thing to do when I get tired of painting lots of models), this is perfect! Here's the link, since I'm not willing to put this up for a third time

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http://secondsphere.org/index.php/topic,769.0.html

I hope you all enjoy this tutorial, and get some use out of it!

**lord marcus**

I did. Thanks a bunch man.

**MiloticMaster**

GW dosn't win you don't have to buy it from them

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also great tut

**Perkustin**

Some of those look great!

It does however assume the Imperium still uses timber stud walls with lathe and plaster.

**Viktor von Domm**

very nice indee. i´m currently saving up sprues to come up one da with such clever ideas for their use as well. thanks for the tut.

cheers mate, vik

**Hologram**

Nice! Would look awesome fully painted

**Peter Wiggin**

I love the out of the box creative thinking! Looks like you make good use of the plastic clips as well. hahahahah

Bumped because its a great way to make custom stuff on the cheap.

**MiloticMaster**

you should turn this into an article

**Runer60000**

MiloticMaster wrote:you should turn this into an article

I will do that soon, then.

**crudcakes**

Thanks
ive got tons of sprus now i know what to do with them all!

**neil101**

cool stuff

**MiloticMaster**

yea really, thank you i had hundreds of sprus and i was going to bin them

then this morning i started on building a city, done some baricades so far will post WIP pics

**Lennysmash**

I'll pop some of my WIP stuff as well if you like. I'm toying with the idea of creating a modular trench system with my excess sprues now. Thanks OP for the tutorial.

**MiloticMaster**

Yea, im going to do a Battle report with my finished city when its done

**Brother Heinrich**

I like it, good shanty-town feel to it

**MiloticMaster**

very make shifty

**Runer60000**

Thanks everyone! I would love to see what you guys have done.

**micahaphone**

Nice! Turn this into an article so it doesn't disappear. Any player could use this. It looks pretty good, especially how you can put it together meticulously and fill in the cracks to make imperial defense lines; leave out the filler for hastily constructed defense lines, or haphazardly put it together for something suitably orky!

**lord marcus**

Perkustin wrote:t does however assume the Imperium still uses timber stud walls with lathe and plaster.

Its called Flakboard for a reason.

@ MiloticMaster

So have I begun some scenery, making one "frame" barricade today. How about I make a blog for everyones creative sprue-ery efforts?

**Lennysmash**

A few wip shots.

I think I'll add some more tissue paper to create more of a mound, then I'm trying out a new trick I picked up of Terrainoob's which is to collect your old tea bags dry them out and use the leaves as a free flock. Anyway looking forward to seeing other peoples stuff too. Oh and if you got any pointers let me know. This is my first piece of terrain outside of a tea towel and some books

**lord marcus**

The blog is created in the painting and modeling forum. Feel free to keep the creativity flowing here and if you want to post there as well please do!

**Mukkin'About**

Now i have a use for all those sprues I have been holding on to!! I was thinking of making terrain, but i guess i needed this for inspiration! now i Definitely know what to do with them!

**bloodaxegit**

Wow. I didn't know that this could be done so well. I might have to make an ork fort!

**lord marcus**

THat would be a sight to see! Actually, I think this could be a very good idea on how to use this article.

**Skalk Bloodaxe**

I've always used sprue as "part of" something, like railings on a building or scrap leaning against a wall. Never thought about building an entire "something" from it. I'll take a look at what I have and maybe contribute more back to this thread.

**Lennysmash**

Some really good I ideas being put forward here. As this is the tute section though probably best if we move any wip shots and finished models over to the sister thread. Link below

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/329472.page

**QuestionableStrategy**

O.O I just threw away three boxes full of these *weep*

**SpankHammer III**

I've made simple fences before but these are awesome, I knew I kept a load pf spruces in my scenery box for a reason

**Runer60000**

Wow, I'm surprised at how successful this has been so far, I'm pretty impressed at what other people have done so far. I guess I should really get working on more stuff to show off.

**lord marcus**

Awesome to see your going to continue building Runer! My wall section is 1/2 complete at the moment.