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@yournamehere: Very nice!

This is an awesome idea and I must now go out and buy something so I have sprues to use!

Joe! respect man thatsso awesome and gorkamorka looking cheers mate

This is actually far better than building my stuff out of strips of foamboard. Why couldn't I have found this sooner???

The only suggestion I might have for using the old sprues is to shred them and use them as rubble. Easiest way to do this is to find an old crank style meat grind and put the sprues through it.

Didn't read most of this thread, but you could use them as the frame of your building only and then possibly using plasticard to avoid the log-cabin look?

GoldenKaos 2011/02/21 22:22:36 Subject: Tired of Throwing Away all Those Piles of Sprue? Turn it into Very Cheap, Yet Effective Scenery!

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Didn't read most of this thread, but you could use them as the frame of your building only and then possibly using plasticard to avoid the log-cabin look?

That..... actually seems like a really good idea... Some have suggested plastering it with putty filler, but plasticard is thin enough and easy enough to work with to make this happen....

I just found an enormous stack of sprue! hurray!

you'd be surprised at what you can recycle if you just stop and look at things in a different light, for instance:

i built an Ork fort out of old styrofoam, foam board, sprues, cardstock from cereal boxes, and spice bottles, and cardboard.

A number ten can of coffee, some sprues, and some plasticard or foam board, can be used to make a quonset hut type machine shop,
http://www.agr.state.il.us/spacerental/facility/images/misc/quonset.jpg

and canned veggies can be used to make quonset hut barracks.
http://learnsustainable.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/quonset-hut.jpg

twist ties like the ones you get in boxes for garbage bags can be wrapped together and made into trees or just about anything, zip strips can be used for moulding on buildings, the plastic crap that stores put items into nowadays can be turned into weird alien buildings, windows, cockpits, lakes and ponds, etc, etc.

all you need is an imagination and a different perspective when looking at stuff, and you'll be surprised at what your mind can come up with.

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I know my Gargant is made of an insta-milkshake cup, sprue, half-dome tops of veggie containers, and a whole heap of chopstick.

Nice, I'm so glad I saved all those sprues. Thanx awesome tut.

I really like that!! And I've got so much sprue lying around!!

Aw man, I find this just days after I throw all my scrap sprue in the recycling bin! However, anymore sprue I get, I am most definatly going to hang onto until I have enough to build something! Brilliant. =)

*runs back to trash can* time to screw GW

very nice tread mate, I used spure bits every once and a while but I'd never thought of anything like this. This will GREATLY improve the feel of our games. Goodbye megablocks and video game cases


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I've never been so happy digging through the recyclables I just built a land raider, khorne berserkes, a hive tyrant, and genestealers.

Now I'm going to build some ruins, low walls, and buildings, without spending any more money. This tutorial is a savior to all low budget 40k players.


Praise be to you sir.

I like it!! You're awesome to come up with something like this! ;D

This is what I managed to build xD

I thought walls were to easy to build so I made a guard tower. Well it's a wip tower ;D

That looks awesome, DiDDe! I was wondering what to do with those center-spoke sprue bits. And the Rhino door bit is a great idea!

Anvildude wrote:Wait, you mean people actually throw away sprue? what madness is this?


(Why yes, I am an ork player. What's that? Oh, yeah, I'm scratchbuilding everything... why?)

**COUGH** Sparta **COUGH**

I am in the process of building barricades and other such gubbins and a small fort/watch tower, I will post pics once done!

Hey.

Thanks for the excellent tutorial, now I finally have something to fill my time and use my immense amount of sprues I've been hoarding.

Thought I'd share my watch tower I've been making, by no means done; shall post it when its finished and painted





Roof is removable so you can put mini's in it and get some use out of it.
Anyway, yeah, thanks a bunch =D

--> Grayspear

that is freaking cool...and your design would work for guard too...

When I went a battlefield tour of Normandy in 2005, I saw quite alot of the Concrete Casemates and bunkers. An interesting fact and relevant to this, was that the the Bunkers were built with Wood Planking forming the "Moulds" into which the concrete was poured layer by layer. The result is a wooden imprint finish for some Bunkers, I will upload some of pictures to demonstrate this.

This isn't my Photo, I will upload my own later.

Possibly Point Du Hoc but cannot be sure, You can see the lines clearly on the roof of the Bunker.

It would interesting using Sprue pieces make the bunker and then fill the model in with model filler. Then rub it down to a nice finish and it should leave those long lines in the "Mock Concrete".

Love the overhang on the slits too, that's a 'real' bunker right there

Grayspear wrote:Hey.

Thanks for the excellent tutorial, now I finally have something to fill my time and use my immense amount of sprues I've been hoarding.

Thought I'd share my watch tower I've been making, by no means done; shall post it when its finished and painted





Roof is removable so you can put mini's in it and get some use out of it.
Jesus just spilled awesome sauce over that tower
Anyway, yeah, thanks a bunch =D

--> Grayspear

Grayspear wrote:Hey.

Thanks for the excellent tutorial, now I finally have something to fill my time and use my immense amount of sprues I've been hoarding.

Thought I'd share my watch tower I've been making, by no means done; shall post it when its finished and painted





Roof is removable so you can put mini's in it and get some use out of it.
Anyway, yeah, thanks a bunch =D

--> Grayspear

Dude, this is freakin awesome.

Sweet

Without meaning to sound disrespectful when I read the title I wasn't expecting sprue scenery to look too hot, I think I had better pour bbq sauce on my words and start eating them!

This really is a great idea and the photos of your sprue terrain look great, I'm never going to throw sprues away again, really looking forward to using this as inspiration for my own sprue terrain.

Good job dude

Not quite scenery but I used sprues to make the frames for my grot's crows nest and the frame for my screaming bell.

Thats amazing! I love those Orks.

This is something I've been working on this last week. Thanks for this topic, and the inspiration. Awesome post.

Holy guys great work LOVE the wood plank look

Very nice. I dug in to the forum to find this. I saw it once and then forgot about it till one day I was like; HEY, what the hell am I going to do with all this left over sprue from painting my best buds 50 some odd orks?! Make him some custom ork terrain stuff! Hell yeah!

Oh damn. I binned my sprues a couple months ago :( I had literally hundreds. Oh well, at least I know what to do with all future sprues now.

Thanks for reviving this thread and sharing