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Tr Nd Terrain
From an old, backyard cactus.

Cactus recovered:
Seems pretty sturdy, but brittle in some areas, will need few layers of wood glue I think.

De-Needled:
Needles are stored for safety and later use.

Cactus cut:
Cut into ("Aegis defense line") sections. Very nifty sponge texture inside and mesh like casing around the cactus.

Molded:
Sculpted around the cactus with Air-Dry-Clay

So far so good.

Progress has been made!

After everything is dry one coat of light-beige dry-brush, and a one wash of watered-down raw-umber.

Flat bases need bit of spackle and colored flat. These are turning out pretty nifty.

Pretty cool idea. Having spent too much time working in the desert though, cactus give me the jitters.

 Elbows wrote:
Pretty cool idea. Having spent too much time working in the desert though, cactus give me the jitters.

Hope the whole set will turnout awesome.
Oh, you gave me a cool idea, Cacti AND Spiders! Together, somehow.

Update and finished.
Multi layers of dry-brush and washes.
2 coats of varnish.
Bottoms matt black, and as flat as i could make them. However not perfect.
Alien cacti are from aquarium plant, drilled, cut, glued.

Tyranid Hive spines covered in layers of time, with only the alien cacti cling to where nourishment still lingers.

Enjoy.

Nice. I use the same orange pieces, only purple on my nids terrain. Cacuts has the organic look on the underneath part to.

That looks great. A really nice spinal effect coming from the dried cactus. Thanks for sharing.

 Dynas wrote:
Nice. I use the same orange pieces, only purple on my nids terrain. Cacuts has the organic look on the underneath part to.

Thank you
Nice. Those orange pieces are very useful for terrain, I just hope there would be more of a size variant. I have tried to use yellow-orange flock to build up the moss around the plants but it did not look good.



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 Flinty wrote:
That looks great. A really nice spinal effect coming from the dried cactus. Thanks for sharing.

Thank you.

It did turn out quite nifty.
There is alot more of that cactus that is still around, perhaps enough for 60 of these terrain pieces.
Perhaps in future will try something else with the husks.

 Mothsniper wrote:

 Dynas wrote:
Nice. I use the same orange pieces, only purple on my nids terrain. Cacuts has the organic look on the underneath part to.

Thank you
Nice. Those orange pieces are very useful for terrain, I just hope there would be more of a size variant. I have tried to use yellow-orange flock to build up the moss around the plants but it did not look good.



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 Flinty wrote:
That looks great. A really nice spinal effect coming from the dried cactus. Thanks for sharing.

Thank you.

It did turn out quite nifty.
There is alot more of that cactus that is still around, perhaps enough for 60 of these terrain pieces.
Perhaps in future will try something else with the husks.

You can get artificial moss, granted its green, but you cold airbrush it various shades of orange and yellow, light brown.