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Crap i just threw out like 10 of these things last night lol....

Spidey0804 wrote:Crap i just threw out like 10 of these things last night lol....

Why?!?! Why do you torture yourself????

Really, if you threw it out, you are missing only pain, torment, and anguish!

I agree with the Bringer. I built one wall, and called it a day. I have a cardboard box ruin, and a paper mache hill. Both of the those combined were easier and faster than this stupid technique.

you have a right to voice your opinion , and you have . but once was enough to make it clear you dont like it .

so rather than trolling this thread since you dont like this method so much , which seems to be the view of the MINORITY of poster on this thread , move on with your lives and let other people try it for themselves and see if they like it or not .

as it is , IF YOU REALLLLLLLLLLLY DONT LIKE this idea , you are defeating your own purposes by complaining about it since you just bump it up in the listings , which while i am all for , seems kinda rude on your parts to do it by complaining multiple times and trying to discourage others from even TRYING something new . unless thats youur whole point is to bump it up so more people can read it , which i am all for .

i have been in the minis gameing for about 20 years , and i was doing this kind of building back when gorka morks JUST came out . the only thing that surprized me is that so many people seem to have not heard of it or tried it untill this thread was started . as it is i have a mini tote bin about 9X12X18 inches of sprues i have cut down to straight legths , and a container of sprue parts i have clipped into rubble bits , so its all ready to go when i get the time to do some more terrain with it .

Really fun to do. Thanks for the knowledge Oh, the pictures a little fuzzy but if you look close I glued a Storm Bolter ftw
still have to paint though

Gona giv dis a go!

Love the tutorial, already made some fences that look great =D
Really good idea considering you pretty much are bound to have all the supplies when you buy models. (amazed more people didn't think of it really).

Where were you like 11 years ago, just to think of all the sweet things i could have made, anyway sweet tut. no more wasting for this old boy!

Man, I feel really stupid for throwing away all those sprues! Well, now I know what to do with them.
This actually reminds me of this guy who made a Necron army completely out of leftover sprue.

I laready mentioned this somewhere earlier that there is also a better way of doing the same thing. When I stop being lazy I will get on it and show y'all what im getting at.

My chaos playing friend always just melted it down slightly to create tentacles chaos spawn for free.

jadebullet wrote:My chaos playing friend always just melted it down slightly to create tentacles chaos spawn for free.

That's awesome! What exactly did he melt it with? Just a candle or something?

Perkustin wrote:Some of those look great!

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

They still use cavalry

This thread is made of win.

S**T - careful... One might suffer from Perils of the Inspiration!

What I love about this is anyone can do it.

If you’re lazy then you don't even have to file the sprues after cutting and people should have the glue anyway if they have made the models on the sprue in the first place. I agree with some of the things people have said in that wooden stirrers are better at x, y and z and this is better for that but this is a real possibility for all. If personally fin stirrers hard to use if I'm trying to make a corner and o find there uses limited.

Stirrers (or cardboard, putty or even foam board for that matter) over the sprues is my preferred method as I get the strength and stability of the glued sprue and the creative potential of my imagination.

A great and simple idea that should be shared round the hobby so that terrain and scenery is not so daunting or financially costly anymore!

Im going to have to dig mine out the bin now

I promised there was a better way of doing this, and I am delivering.

The key thing to do, is to spend that extra time shaving everything off of the terrain pieces. All of the studs and things that stick out so that you have straight panels that can lie flush. Why? You can glue multiple 'logs' together, and smooth it out to have a perfectly straight surface. After it sets, you run over it with sandpaper and smooth it down to a flat panel. The effort required for this is extensive, but you can feel good about not wasting anything, junking environment, etc.

Using the fact that each piece is curved to your advantage, you can either alternate curvature to get straight walls, or place them all facing the same way to get curves. If its orky, then twist it around back and forth: see the left spike wall and its randomness, eventhough I could have made it even orkier. The thing to remember in this instance though, is to vary the widths of the spars, and keep it random.

If you want something that looks awesome and regular; after you shaved it smooth, grab your saw. Run the teeth of the saw along ALL FOUR sides--you wont know in the end which side you will want to use--and score the 'logs' now they look like wood, and when glued together with care, they look VERY good. Obviously, use plastic glue for this, and plastic glue only. Super-glue is great for getting things done, but you need those couple minutes of gentle tweaking to get the right surface.



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One more thing: not all of the sprues are well-suited for doing this, because some, like the new IG Tank sprues, are just looooaaaaaadddeeeedd with stuff on the frame, which makes for alot of cutting. The SM tank sprues however have gorgeous lengths of un-tarnished spar.

Surprisingly effective my friend, nice work.

I have just today built a load of ork scenery from sprue and an old dvd case inspired by this thread, im just waiting on the spray paint drying beofre i paint it up n post it on here, but heres what it looks liek without detail and colour.

I like that a lot. Looks like it was made by an Ork! ( I mean that as a compliment )

thanks dude, it looks better now i have finished, well apart from the ork gunner lol.

Its some what interchangeable as well, i tried to make it so when i make more scenery i can mix n match it all.

Nice i allways saved the sprues but bro tought i was crazy but i knew it could come in handy and the AoBR sprues are reallly long also you can make some PK for orks horray for sprues!

Ok, this is cool but i use sprues for different things. those 'knobs' that you cut off, save them and they can be used for rivets on larger apoc ork vehicles, they can also be used as decoration on buildings if you line them up in rows, i recently built a paperhammer drop pod and used the knobs on the doors so that the doors wouldn't just smack full onto the table when opened, they didn't sit quite right, and the knobs evened it out so that the doors were even and flat when opened. The the longer sprues themselves can be shaved with the edge of an exacto blade to create a rod of plastic (warning: this creates a static filled shaving that will get all over the place, keep a good vacuum cleaner handy), this then can be clipped, warmed and bent and turned into axles, roll bars, flagpoles, banner poles, gun barrels, anything that you need a round piece of plastic for. Finally for those pieces that are not long enough to use but are too long to use for basing scenery, you can glue them to the insides of whatever your building as a brace, it gives you something more that you can glue to and it can be placed in out of the way areas where it is not readily seen, plus if you really wanted to you could make it look like it actually belongs there. IE, all you'd have to do is shave it down along one edge, then take a round file and file it lengthwise, then glue into place as instant crown moulding along the ceiling of a building, sandwich them between two pieces of large flat plastic, let them stick out a bit, hack them up along the tip slightly, bend them, and viola you have busted beams on a ruined building. the uses are endless if you just stop and think about it for a bit.

Here's my sprue made Ork watch tower:

Looks cool mate! Well done!!! I can't wait to get stuck into making lots of orky scenery once i get the my ork project up to speed!!!

I threw this together over the last couple days, it took a while but it turned out great, I tried getting a wood effect from Popsicle sticks but they are just too big to look like 2x4s at this scale.







By the way, I like that ork tower, I will have to give that a go.

Fantastic.

I must try this.

Digging around on the web, I found this article: http://www.heresy-online.net/forums/showthread.php?t=20556

Not sure if it's been posted, as ti seemed easy enough to find, but in light of the Orky-works, it's quite appropriate.

I will attempt it later tonight and if It works I'll post WIP pics of subsequent claws I make

Runer60000 wrote: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 :
http://secondsphere.org/index.php/topic,769.0.html

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

i make tank traps or barricades