A Long Time Ago...(A TerrainFest 2023 Blog)

This is being filed away under “Ideas that sounded great at the time”.

While at a local arts and crafts store, I was wandering about the Halloween section. There I found something I thought would make fantastic bit of scatter terrain for the project: a snake skeleton!

At 30″+ and a pretty decent scale, I was thinking of all the cool little stuff I could do to add this to my board. Bonus points for the wire going through the underside so that it could be easily posed. It was an easy purchase (especially with a 60% off coupon).

The plan was supposed to be a simple one. I was going to chop it up into multiple pieces due to its length and base it like I did the main terrain. This would allow me to use as much, or as little, of it as scatter terrain for each game.

Additionally I wanted to give it a little extra height. I was going to achieve this by sculpting some sand dunes using tin foil and milliput. Then using texture paste and my sand mix, I’d blend it in with the rest of my build.

At this point, however, things started falling apart.

I know the popular phrase in the art and hobby world is to “trust the process”, but by time I got to the dune part of the process I wasn’t liking it. It could have been the nagging thought in the back of my mind that I had so much more to do on the main project and October is almost over. It could have been the idea of sitting and mixing enough milliput to cover it all was going to drive me insane.

Ultimately, I’m putting a pin in this little side project.

I may return to it at a later date and look at it with fresh eyes. Worst case scenario is that I can just leave the chopped bones as they are and just put them on the board.

Until next time!

What is a snake’s favorite tv show? Monty Python.