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Thanks, guys!

@RW - The bed and drink machine are from Black Cat Bases - great products and really cheap, but be prepared to fill a few air bubbles

@LDD - Good call! Some scattered broken furniture would fit well, will have to see what I can do. Thanks for the tip!

@Vik - Cheers man, hope you like what I'm working on with the cookie stuff.

EDIT: Realise that almost all the guys who read this are =L=, but on the offchance anyone hasn't seen it yet, go check out Vik's terrain comp! The challenge is to use all of the parts that come with a packet of biscuits to make some terrain - there are some great ideas in there, and I'm really looking forward to seeing how it turns out. Here are a few teasers of mine so far:




Get on over there!

oh... sweet looking...

thanks for the link scarp! And I LOVE that door.. seriously its awsome

Nice fluff story for the dome there. How did miss that? I must have been skimming to find the picture updates.

You will make great terrain I'm sure - I remember the miniature bin bags.

Nice start on the hoboville mate.. those barnacle pics are fantastic..

Looks good so far.....I love the little bottle thing and the wind turbine.

Really looking forward to seeing this terrain project completed.

Thanks a ton guys, really appreciate the kind words, and the votes of confidence! Hope I can get it up to standard

A bit more of an in depth view today! The setting I'm going for is a storage centre / pipeline control platform on a floating industrial platform. It's fallen a long way into disrepair, and may have picked up a squatter or two over time! Still very WiP, but here's how my cookie terrain is looking right now:


I'm planning on using it for necro terrain, so single models can pass behind where Scratch is standing to utilise the pipes for cover, or climb up on top of the storage building for a better, though more exposed view. The whole lot will be floating in a swampy sump when I'm done!

Here's what I still need to do before painting:


A - A rubber band fan belt for the generator. Is it clear how it's supposed to work? I didn't think wind would be too reliable a resource in some areas of the hive, and this seemed to me like a fairly reliable power siphon

B - A proper fitting for attaching the water wheel to the platform - it's just tacked in place for now so that I can paint it seperately.

C - Tons of gap filling - I've left sorting the edges til last because I wasn't sure where i'd be attaching platforms until recently!

D - Entrance walkway

E - Basing! Hopefully a sump full of detritus in the style of Neil's recent amazing work, though it sounds like it'll take some doing...

F - A tatty awning over the doorway - bet you thought I'd forgotten the plastic, eh, Vik?

G - Cabling to attach the generator to the storage centre. Gotta do something with all that power!

And finally, a little more progress on a den for the owner's pet!


So lots still to do in my few days off, but I hope you like it now that you can see a little more clearly where I'm going!

Well err I think I will give up now then Nice bot of terrain,what part of the cookie is the pipes from

lone dirty dog wrote:Well err I think I will give up now then Nice bot of terrain,what part of the cookie is the pipes from

the crunchy bit


hey scarper... i am so glad you joined the comp... that truly seems to have you inspired quite a lot!!! it looks totally awesome... and i mean it...

the amount of detail... and most specially the tubes/pipes... simply stunning.... if you can pull off the base to look a bit like neils swap/sewer big terrain... the competition gets quite hard !!!

also i like the combo of generator/ turbine the addition of the rubberband will be sight for sore eyes!

With everything in place it takes on a totally new life.

This cookie competition looks and I imagine tastes good.

This is wicked .. really great.. i want ! reminds me of water world.. but in a good way .

lone dirty dog wrote:Well err I think I will give up now then Nice bot of terrain,what part of the cookie is the pipes from

Im not going to lie I did think of giving up.. but what kind of guardsmen would I be! This is an amazing peice of terrain scarp, and its going to be tough to beat.. but I have my ways

Looking good. I love a good Cookie Carton terrain piece.

Love it, Scarp! You can't see the component parts very well and it's not even painted! Keep up the great work

neil101 wrote:This is wicked .. really great.. i want ! reminds me of water world.. but in a good way .

It isn't possible to remind one of Waterworld in a bad way

Now the question is how do you shape water effect into a curved stream falling from the pipe onto the wheel?

Falling water can easily be created by using kids hobby glue, the stuff thyey use in schools... Its a bit thick, and it dries out bubbly-transparant. when it is semi-dry you can use whatever tools you like to pull it apart, stretch it, shape it, whatever. Build it up in layers, and you can make waterfalls out of the stuff even. Or you use woodland scenics waterfall effects...

nice tip maus.... consider this saved for further use...

Wow, thanks so much for the response, everyone!

@LDD - Your cookies didn't come with piping?! How on earth do you pump milk and chocolate sauce onto them?! You Southerners with your crazy cookies I'm glad you like, and no bloody giving up!

@Vik - Thanks a ton man, I really appreciate that! I've been meaning to do something like this for a while, and your contest just tipped me off the edge, so thank you. And I do not envy you for having to make the decisions at all, looking at the quality of entry that's popped up over the last few days on the main thread...

@Peter - Thank you! The cookies were indeed delicious, the plastic less so. I'm really glad you feel like its coming together!

@Neil - Thanks, man! You know I still need to watch that movie? I've heard some... mixed... reviews, but I feel like it would be a great source of inspiration if nothing else. Onto the to-do list!
Thanks again for the sump recipe too - it's a lot of fun to play with!

@Rogue - Having seen the world you built for the Himlen boys, I've got no doubt that you do! Thanks a ton for the compliment, anyway

@The Good Green - Thank you! It is kind of a classic in terrain making, isn't it? That, bean cans and pringle tubes.

@Rawson - Thanks so much! Hope I can keep it together until the end of the comp!

@Weety - With extreme difficulty? I'm still working on sorting that bit out

@MauS - That is a fantastic tip, thank you! I'll have to see what I can do with it when I eventually get round to doing the water. Will probs have to leave that till after painting though.

Sort of relevant update! Neil very kindly gave me the recipe for his awesome sump, and I've been trying to do something similar. This is a test piece - not the base that my terrain will go on, but a test ground that will do as a mini pool for some later terrain. I've got the first few layers down (still 3 or 4 to go!). Hope you like!

Sort of relevant update! Neil very kindly gave me the recipe for his awesome sump, and I've been trying to do something similar. This is a test piece - not the base that my terrain will go on, but a test ground that will do as a mini pool for some later terrain. I've got the first few layers down (still 3 or 4 to go!). Hope you like!

now that is a direct refference to neils work... and a very well executed one...you nailed it pretty damn well... those sloshes... convincing is only the half of it... looks totally livelike and as i still remember your inspitational pics... very much to that point too!!!

nicely done there scarp!

Very inspirational! What was the recipe for sump goo?

Ghosty - Bud you can see it in one of the spoilers at the top of this page in Neil101's blog http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/1440/318718.page

Looks great. How did you make the piping and valves?

Scarper, definately wait till after painting before adding the water, and just in case, make sure you seal the paint with a layer or two of Pledge wood floor polish. That way the paint does not copme into direct contact with the water, and it will not absorb color you dont want in it... I learned this the hard way once... Got me a big scare when my vietnamese PT boat suddenly turned my murky muddy vietnam river PT boat grey :S

I always seal stuff with pledge. It gives a nice shiny layer thats ideal to add washes to, and after a layer of matte varnish the shinyness is gone.

Works great too if you add a bit before decalling, that way your decals will never silver...

I use Pledge Vinyl floor polish with Future, it's semi-gloss where the wood floor stuff has a bit more gloss to it. Yes no one should EVER fear gloss coats, they are your friend.

You put floor polish on your minis?!? Well that's all new to me. Household cleaning products are so useful to the hobbyist!

Wonderful stuff Scarp!

SIdekick and Ralston were great, the woodgrain and the colour palette looking fantastic.

Nice terrain, matress and couch were superb. And the cookie-sump-a-rama is crazy cool man

I've seen white parcel string used as falling water effects, but I suspect it's not easy to get right as I've seen a few really good examples, and lots of not very good examples I think it basically involves teasing out the strands of string and giving it a good few coats of your chosen 'water effects'. If you inserted a bit of fine wire at one end you could shape the initial curve....

I'm a fan of Johnson Wax Klear, which was really hard to get hold off for a while, until I discovered that it had become Pledge with Future Although I've started to see Klear around again now.

It's just clear liquid acrylic, not much different than any other sealer or 'ard coat, or varnish, only a LOT cheaper

Thanks so much for all the comments guys, I really do appreciate them. Will write some proper replies in the morning though, cause it's 2am and I'm too knackered to do em justice.

Here's the latest on the terrain piece I'm doing for Vik's contest. This is still WiP, but it's coming together:




I'd love to know what you reckon.

Dude... that looks amazing!