Ride to ruin (February’s Snag a Normie Challenge)

[I didn’t have time this week to do hobby and post here so I’m going to dump all the posts up in one day but title them as though I was an organised human being]

Most of my terrain is sci-fi so I knew that for the games day I was going to need to get a gaming surface and some scatter sorted. The scenario booklet that comes in the box set does take great pains to note that the Pelennor is a barren land so scatter isn’t a big priority. I decided to try out Mel the Terrain Tutor’s CD scatter method to quickly get some pieces done using stuff that could just be found around the flat.

Finding old DVDs wasn’t difficult but it turns out that I am far too efficient at throwing out polystyrene! I eventually found some in the box for my printer – enough for this project and probably for making some rocks etc in the future.

I’m not going to go into much detail here as I really didn’t do much different from Mel’s instruction so I’d say just go and support a great creator by watching his videos… maybe even ding his dong while you are there.

A few weeks ago (in the middle of the Rangers of Shadow Deep project), I stumbled upon a Woodland Scenics kit for £4. £4?!?! For 6 armatures and more than enough clump flock for all of them. The instructions were simple – twist ’em, tacky glue ’em, flock ’em. I chucked prime ’em in there and at the end I gave them a good spray of cheap hairspray and used a lighter fine flock to highlight but that’s it. They look good. At some point I’ll go and work on the trunks with washes and highlights but I didn’t have time.

One of the trees is done with a different clump that I’ve had in the flat for donkey’s – I loved the colour but sadly it is really crumbly so it’s not up to much. It and one of the other trees I based on 55mm bases but treated them the same in terms of filler/spackle, texture, paint, flock, seal.

Now our two elements can be joined and BAM! Scatter done.