A new traveller in Anyaral

I was inspired by the tent templates on the official site and decided to make my own.

I’m waiting on my miniatures form World of Twilight arriving, The Fubarnii Empire and the Dhogu Raiders. In the pics I’ve used a couple of Burrows and Badgers minis to provide scale for now. (The tents also make good camps for Wildbeasts for Burrows and Badgers too 😉

First steps:
-Make a cardboard template for the tent shape that fits on my base with some space for the material to flow down and some basing.

-Using a hotwire, make 4 hexagonal prisms with the template. Trim 2 down from the centre to the sides to make the pyramid shaped roof.

-Hotwire sculpting lance is use to pierce guide holes and carve out a door cavity.

-Add toothpick tent poles and a centre support from something thicker. I used a craft stick about the thickness of a bamboo bbq skewer.

Next up, the tent material was supposed to look like oil skin and hides rubbed with resin to waterproof them.

-Apply a layers of PVA to the foam.

-Refold a strip of napkin and wrap it around the tent, soften the paper with watered down PVA, 50/50 and poke the rent poles through.

-Smooth out any texture printed on the napkin paper with a finger and leave them to dry overnight.

Finally some paint.

-I coated any exposed foam with modpodge matte to protect them from spray paint, like the door cavities.

-The tents were given a two tone scheme, lighter tan on the roof but it doesn’t look any different after the wash. They were dry brushed with a pale bone and then washed.

-The door cavity was painted black to simulate the shadows within, the tent poles picked out in a warmer brown and some feint spots stippled on here and there to simulate natural patterns and markings on the hide.

-Some basing grit, flock and some flower tufts and It’s done.

Here are some handy Wildbeasts from Burrows and badgers for scale beside the tents. Those are 30mm bases the minis are on.