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grumpy_newenglander wrote:
Looks awesome. Dumb question, but where do you guys get foamcore? Found some on Amazon but I'm not sure if its legit. Going to try to pop in the local dollar store tomorrow for some cheap plastic trays to give the terrain sprue a shot.


Another suggestion is dollar stores lke Dollar Tree. It is in same place they keep the poster board.

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if you are in the Uk, you can get it from Hobbycraft. I expect you have an equivalent Arts & Crafts chain store in the US.

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Speaking of foamcore, here's a video that I put together back during the Kickstarter, showing the assembly of a basic foamcore building.



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Thank you, this is just brilliant. I really like the giftbox idea, that's something anybody could do, no foamcore required. Buy a box, glue plastic bits on, paint and done! I guess you could magnetise the roof, and then use the box as an actual box to store other terrain bits in - scatter, barrels, etc.

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 warriorpriest wrote:
grumpy_newenglander wrote:
Looks awesome. Dumb question, but where do you guys get foamcore? Found some on Amazon but I'm not sure if its legit. Going to try to pop in the local dollar store tomorrow for some cheap plastic trays to give the terrain sprue a shot.


Another suggestion is dollar stores lke Dollar Tree. It is in same place they keep the poster board.


This was an awesome suggestion, thanks for the heads up. Stopped by the local dollar store and picked up two boards. Also nabbed a couple of interesting plastic containers that looked like they could turn into cool buildings. Will post some pics once I figure out what I'm doing.
   
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grumpy_newenglander wrote:
 warriorpriest wrote:
grumpy_newenglander wrote:
Looks awesome. Dumb question, but where do you guys get foamcore? Found some on Amazon but I'm not sure if its legit. Going to try to pop in the local dollar store tomorrow for some cheap plastic trays to give the terrain sprue a shot.


Another suggestion is dollar stores lke Dollar Tree. It is in same place they keep the poster board.


This was an awesome suggestion, thanks for the heads up. Stopped by the local dollar store and picked up two boards. Also nabbed a couple of interesting plastic containers that looked like they could turn into cool buildings. Will post some pics once I figure out what I'm doing.


Please do - I'd like to see what you come up with!

Additionally, please PM me your New England location - maybe we're close enough neighbors to get a game in! :

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 Alpharius wrote:
grumpy_newenglander wrote:
 warriorpriest wrote:
grumpy_newenglander wrote:
Looks awesome. Dumb question, but where do you guys get foamcore? Found some on Amazon but I'm not sure if its legit. Going to try to pop in the local dollar store tomorrow for some cheap plastic trays to give the terrain sprue a shot.


Another suggestion is dollar stores lke Dollar Tree. It is in same place they keep the poster board.


This was an awesome suggestion, thanks for the heads up. Stopped by the local dollar store and picked up two boards. Also nabbed a couple of interesting plastic containers that looked like they could turn into cool buildings. Will post some pics once I figure out what I'm doing.


Please do - I'd like to see what you come up with!

Additionally, please PM me your New England location - maybe we're close enough neighbors to get a game in! :


I'm actually a displaced New Englander...currently living in the Washington, DC Metro area. Hopefully my wife and I will be making our way back to Maine in the next couple of years.
   
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Ha!

I'd be grumpy too if I had to move away from New England and into the DC Area!

And if you're moving back to Maine, you'll still be a ways away from me here in Massachusetts!

   
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Oh man, exalted the hell out of that post. Thanks for video insaniak.

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Alph, I expect like 90 sets of orange/blue from you.
 
   
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Getting some paint on... Setting up a salt weathering tutorial.
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One was a-salted


 
   
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That title got a groan :p

   
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Crispy! Ready salted!

Vid was great thanks, looking forward to the tut.




 
   
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Progress...
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Flakey goodness


 
   
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Looking nice

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Not where I should be

Great effect, salting is a technique everyone should have in there toolbox. It can be over done though, but you have got it bang on there.





 
   
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Been having a blast building and painting these models...they're really well made and the multi-pose thing is awesome.

Here are a few pictures of the five or six models I've finished. Certainly open to feedback, I'm always trying to step up my paint game and know it could use some work.

Links because the images were taken on my phone and are unnecessarily large...don't know how to resize.

Karist Angel/Minnows:

http://i.imgur.com/CrEP1Sx.jpg

Karist Angel alone:

http://i.imgur.com/TAk85iM.jpg

Epirian Contractor:

http://i.imgur.com/a6bRriu.jpg

   
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Nice stuff grumpy You might want to start a new thread here so that it gets more eyeballs compared to being buried in this terrain thread. Check out the dakka gallery as well, as then your images get automatically resized and can be easily embedded in posts too!

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 legoburner wrote:
Nice stuff grumpy You might want to start a new thread here so that it gets more eyeballs compared to being buried in this terrain thread. Check out the dakka gallery as well, as then your images get automatically resized and can be easily embedded in posts too!


Good call, will try to do that later today. Thanks!
   
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Models look ace! Nice basing too.

   
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A watch tower I threw together on the weekend, for an upcoming Comm Guild article...


 
   
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Neat! I have some bits on the terrain sprue in mind that would make a nice electrified fence to go with that

   
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Time for more shipping containers... enclosed one, this time


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Mostly, on my phone.

Lovely indeed. The mysterious boxes of Xmas are, I find, and source of base cardboard.

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A bunch of containers might be my next terrain project

   
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For anyone interested, there is now a tutorial on building the shipping containers here.

 
   
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I love that watch tower. I am looking really hard at the terrain sprue that came with starter, trying to pick the best idea.

   
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Something new, coming together...



 
   
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Nifty! Is that a pen for POWs?

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Nice cattle pen! I'm so inspired by how much use you can get out of these parts, it's encouraged me to make my own terrain again. Thank you for posting all this!
   
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Working on the units on the north ridge...


 
   
 
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