Craft New Bases With Green Stuff World Rollers
June 6, 2018 by brennon
You might know of the Green Stuff World Rollers which can be used to pattern whatever material you tinker with to make bases. Well, they have some new ones on their webstore worth checking out which could be used for all manner of different genres.
The first of these is the Herringbone Design which allows you to roll out large sections of paving stones which would be good for your Steampunk games. You could see these across the streets of somewhere like Lyonesse in Wolsung right?
You could also use the Flag Stone Design for similar bases although I think they are much more multi-genre in their approach. I would use these for something Historical perhaps.
You could also work this into a Fantasy range as well I think. Imagine a city-based army or one that dwells underground like Dwarves, walking around on these. You could use them for dungeon delvers too!
Alien Worlds & Quiet Backstreets
As well as those we also have one that you might want to check out if you're a Sci-Fi fan.
The Alien Hive Design offers up some wonderful patterns that would be great for the inside of a Tyranid nest perhaps. You could also, of course, have your human soldiers walking through an infested ship looking for survivors.
Last but not least we have something which returns me to the idea of Steampunk with the Small Dutch Bricks.
There is plenty more for you to check out from Green Stuff World and we love the idea of making your own base toppers rather than going to get some of the more expensive sculpted ones. If the design matches and you're being a bit more crafty you could create some awesome worlds.
What do you think?
"If the design matches and you're being a bit more crafty you could create some awesome worlds..."
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nt release how many of the "Rollers" they had, a few have caught my eye. With Fathers day not far of, think ill have to drop a hint or four.Great stuff for scenery, greenstuff world stuff is top knotch and they are putting out some great products
The Flagstone roller would be good for my D&D figures. Up till now I’ve been using their “Brick wall” roller which is similar. I’ve got about 6 of these now, can’t recommend them highly enough.
brilliant looking stuff the alien hive bases remind me of the boards from advanced space crusade.
I’m always tempted to pick these up. i just need a project where I’ll use them enough to be worthwhile. That means starting a new army typically, which will happen eventually. I’d love to see them set up user galleries under each roller to show off finished bases.
(Extended length! I bet that went down well in the office)
Gangs of Rome 😉 😉 come on.. you know you want to 😀
Haha! My meta has currently shrunk down to me and one other person and we focus on our primary game (Warmachine) and alreayd have side games we don’t find time for. I have a friend who would be in to that, but until he returns to play there is no point even thinking about it. However, when I saw that flagstones roller I did thing of Gangs of Rome.
My issue with these are the resolution lines on the rollers. You press them into your greenstuff and they leave these horrible scan lines
Not to mention if you roll to hard the material sticks to the roller no matter how much water you use or sticks to matt that you are using. I always thought they needed like a pasta roller type of machine so they can tune for the correct depth of material and correct pressure that does not make a mess.
I use mine on Sculpey, not Greenstuff, but I’ve found cornflour helps to avoid sticking. As for getting the right depth, Greenstuff World sell some rings to go on the rollers to help getting the correct depth.
Good to know about the rings, thank you for the info
I have a few of these. They are fabulous.
I have some rubber stamps that do this as well. I can see the use of a roller design to make a large consistent pattern. I may pick some up.
Rolling pin arrived today with some of the chameleon paints. Did not realise how small the rolling pin was (about 5.5 inch wide). Not tried it yet, but expected it to be ‘rolling pin size’.