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Terrain Crafting

Most of my spare time is spent crafting terrain, I will post pics of various projects here

This small modular cliff set has been made while waiting for paint and glue to dry on my current large project.

















All levels are individual pieces, larger pieces are sized to fill the end of a minimum sized AoS board.

Looking spiffy! Interested to see more.

Looks nice and functional. How did you go about crafting it?

Nicely done... I'm scheming something similar in a urban setting. I'm assuming all hand-painted, no sprays?

 CaptainWaffle wrote:
Looks nice and functional. How did you go about crafting it?

XPS foam, textured using a knife and wire brush. Hand painted and flocked with my own hand made flocks.


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 MacPhail wrote:
Nicely done... I'm scheming something similar in a urban setting. I'm assuming all hand-painted, no sprays?

yep, hand painted, I do some air brushing but not on this piece.

cutting coconut fibre in prep for building pine trees, the black board underneath is waiting for texture to be applied when it stops raining outside. (my workbench is on my verandah while my workshop is renovated) spreading dirt, sand and grout is not a good activity on the dining room table lol

Step 3 of making pine trees, mist taking a pic of just the coconut fibre branches, go cranky not having good light and to lazy to get a light box out to use.

undercoated brown ready for foliage, while drying trunks need to be cut, textured and painted.


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Textured modular board drying before next stage.


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trunks for pine trees.


this afternoon my static grass applicator arrived in the mail, ready to apply swamp grasses to my large project board.

dry brushed pine trunks.

another hold up on major project, need to order some longer static grass

Coconut fiber for the trees works out very well. How durable are they, or will they be?

Yes, sand is something to be used outdoors, or in the garage. Never the dining room, or kitchen, table Messy stuff.

 Red Harvest wrote:
Coconut fiber for the trees works out very well. How durable are they, or will they be?

Yes, sand is something to be used outdoors, or in the garage. Never the dining room, or kitchen, table Messy stuff.

the fibre feels fairly stiff now, when the foliage is glued on and sealed it will be more durable but will still need some care in handling, no tossing it in a box with the hope of it not breaking but should handle normal use.

Thanks. I may give it a try.

Welcome to the P&M section... and the forum.

quick build today

painted 1 board in base colour, need to get more paint from the hardware store to do the rest of this set of boards. Also completed first layer of flock on pine trees this morning.


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Starting to add vegetation to major project

After flocking 6 X 4 worth of boards I was down to 1 tub of each colour flock so time to make some more today.

sitting on my craft table drying, also in progress plaster rocks sitting to cure, they will be embedded in 1200 X 900 mm modular river board and sitting on another table is a heap of grass tufts, also drying

River progress pic

Adding texture