Terrain - New Games and old
Skaven Gnawhole - Building
I made a mix of PVA, plaster, green paint and green flock and laid it down as a puddle in the middle of my CD bases.
I tried to keep the circle at about 8 cm as prescribed compared to the official ones. I can have the stones hang off the edge of the CD to take the overall size closer to the official size and painted the rim grey.
I cut away at the foam squares from miniatures storage boxes. Trying to make it look more natural. I dry fitted the stones in rough circles.
I soon realised that any runes and things were going to be difficult to cut into the spongy foam, so I found a denser foam material.
Before and after some cheap grey spray. This denser material came from packaging for something electrical and should look OK amongst the more spongy stones. It's a fantasy game, if anything looks odd I will come up with a headcanon reason why that's what I intended all along.
I kept a lot of MDF "sprues" from old kits. I don't have a shed with a stock of off cuts of wood or ready access to balsa wood. When you want something more substantial than coffee stirrers I reach for these. 
There's potential for these to fall apart and be a real problem. Once the PVA dries I am going to wrap thread around the joints or find some bits of sprue or something to look like iron. The official stuff looks very ramshackle so I am not to worried about this looking the same. The triangle is already the wrong kind but I am not particularly concerned. I also have some hobbying chain as per the example from GW. I think the incense burners and braziers might be difficult to replicate but I feel I need to have a nod towards that somewhere on each one.
The packaging of my insulin needles looked like it could be cut into the shape of a brazier. When I began to cut it the plastic was more brittle than I expected. I made an attempt at greenstuff flames.
I painted up the brazier and the flames. I will persevere with 2 more of these but know now that I should add more greenstuff and fill out the cage more and then add the lapping flames at the end. Also get more height on the flames because at the moment it looks more like tentacles than flames.
I finished my first structure but need to fix up some legs and see how to position them amongst the stones.
The gnawholes have some runes and a dry brush and are approaching completion.
I made some legs for the makeshift ceremonial frames. Kebab skewers cut down and bundled into 3s, bound with strips of thick paper.
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