Collins builds the world of the walking dead
Basic Ground Forms
sticky backed cork board
cardboard cut to 8mm x 15mm as curb stones
polystyrene expanded foam with gorilla glue for small hill
sculptamold to smooth out the hill and add woodland scenics tree armatures
make tarmac using tile grout...grey is preferred but white is all I had
mask off the area the garage will be glued to
soak in PVA and water mix
spray grey (but run out of grey primer!)I started by trying to add some height and 3D elements to the flat board.
In the TV show we see Rick walk down a semi steep embankment, steep embankments in this game would make for unplayable areas simply because models would fall off them so I took some license and made it a gradual hill.
the base was expanded foam glued down with gorilla glue (brown expanding glue) and then I slapped a bit of sculptamold on it (for reference, sculptamold has a really long full curing time, more so than home made plaster and paper mix) to smooth it out and make a nice gentle gradient for play.
The other heights I utilised a cork board that had some double sided sticky tape/sheeting on the back of it already. That made for nice simple cuts and sticks for a bit of hight. I glued on some cut up cardboard for the curb stone effects on the edges to make it look like its meant to be there.
finally I sieved some tile grout over the area destined to be tarmac. I would have preferred to use grey but I didn’t have any and didn’t want to spend £9 on another bag for a small area so I used white left over from my bathroom and then primed it grey.
I masked off the area where the garage will sit however so that I can still have a wood to wood bond when this is all done and I’m onto the blending stage.
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