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I have been making these little bunkers for many years. I had plenty of the blister packs left over and figured I could use them for something, then one late night while high on mountain dew and 40+ hours of no sleep it hit me....BUNKERS!
So here's a really simple how to for transforming your blisters into terrain.


Start with marking a line and then cutting the blister as shown. I use sharp medical scissors.

Next flip the cut out piece and glue it to the main piece with superglue.

Next superglue it all down to a base. I used regular cardboard because it's all I had hand but you should use 1 ply card stock (it looks better) Then paint it. I used cheap acrylic grey.


Lastly add details like flocking and maybe some bullet holes. I also made barbed wire using aluminum gutter mesh cut into strips and twisted , then super glued into place. My flocking job looks like crap here because my flock is 10 yrs old and clumpy :(


And here's what it looks like with ragnar in it.


These things can be slapped together in under 10 minutes once you get the hang of it.

EDIT
A few asked about the barbed wire so I added the how to for that.

Here is the gutter screen I used. It's very cheap. This roll cost me $6.99

Here's a piece cut off the roll for easy viewing. This cut is 6x2 inches.

Now cut a thin strip with barbs sticking out just like this. You can use side cutters,scissors or a hobby knife, This stuff is very easy to cut.

Last give it approx 1/4 twist between each barb. You can do more or less depending on personal preference.



Hope you liked my first tutorial here. Thanks for reading.

Thats pretty genius.

Now I feel like a total slacker for delaying making terrain.

And I feel like a total idiot for throwing out all those blister packs over the years...

Wow, simple and effective! Genius!

Brilliant use of what would otherwise be trash. Excellent.

that's awesome - I love making junk useful again. . .

one silly note though, on your ragnar. . . logically, wouldn't ragnar blackmane have darker hair?

-werewolf space vikings! what's not to like? well, I guess they could be teenage mutant ninja werewolf space viking pirate zombies. . . .

Ragnar Blackmane received his last name for killing a blackmaned wolf as a asparent. They are the toughest and largest fenritian wolf not because he has black hair.

Ingenious, gd work.

Only thing I'd suggest is a bit of texture paint over it with a bit of flock/sand and pva glue If anyone was to follow your guide, just to make it look a bit more rock/concrete like.

Deffinate kudos sir, almost too easy it's mind bogglin.

sonofruss wrote:Ragnar Blackmane received his last name for killing a blackmaned wolf as a asparent. They are the toughest and largest fenritian wolf not because he has black hair.

oh. that's kinda lame. I always thought (based on the name) that he was some sort of weird fluke in the geneseed.

phooey.

Hahaha! Nice GD! So simple that i feel silly


//Edge

Thank you, oh grand diety of the spinning piston! Holy Terra shall truly be a cleaner place with the reuse of such nonbiodegradable petrolium dirivitives!

Not really a bunker, more of a concrete platform.

!? wrote:Not really a bunker, more of a concrete platform.

And your comment was helpful how? It could simply be the top of a bunker sticking above ground (as most bunkers are built).

Again kudos the OP for the quick and sleazy bunkers!

Agree, nice stuff. I've looked at blisters for years wondering if I couldn't make something from them.

I think I know what you're doing here. I tried something similar but never followed through.

(I say think because your images don't show up at work)

I used to stick them to a base, paint them and call them bunkers. But that 'cut and flip' is genius!
Well played sir!

very original
NICE !

You could also cut off the sides and link them together to fit more than 1-2 models. Anyways one man's trash or so they say. Good work.

Thanks for all the kind words guy's!

whatwhat mentioned textured paint, I did that on a few other ones and they came out nice. It depends on the look your striving for, concrete or steel.

Maybe I can get this added to the modeling and painting articles section.

yea thats a brilliant idea really. The best part is it actually looks good, and its REALLY simple. Thumbs up man

How did no one come up with this before?

Excellent! You may have a cookie.

Like Faux Pas pointed out, you can cut out the sides, to create entire "ditch lines" of concrete runways, adding as much extra detail as you see fit It's such an easy base material. I sense a whole new market for trading used blisters!!

Very nice....I think it would look better though if you based-coated it with the GW-Roughcoat spray -it gives a much better concrete-look.

What did you use as barbed wire?

P.S. I feel very stupid now for throwing all that blister packaging away too, but I guess that almost any plastic packaging can be used for this purpose for diffenent shapes and sizes.

The barbed wire is aluminum gutter mesh. Look at the words right above the 5th picture.

Where was this thread 8 years ago?

aunshova wrote:Where was this thread 8 years ago?

Sadly enough I have been making them for over 8 yr's, problem was I lived far enough out in the country that I couldn't get internet even if I wanted it. I only got internet last year and I just got back into 40K last month.

PS. I'm going to edit the original post to include the making of the barbed wire since a few have asked about it.

Joyous_Oblivion wrote:And I feel like a total idiot for throwing out all those blister packs over the years...

Not as dumb as I feel temple guard and grave guard used to only come in blisters. I used to mix paint and washes in them now I am just sad

Ok this has been added to the articles section.
Thanks again guys for the great feedback on this how to!