And now for something completely different...

As if I couldn't get any more random... This weekend I started making terrain for miniatures.

My son recently got very interested in a miniature wargame called Warhammer 40k but the cost of said game can drive a person into the poorhouse. After talking with the hobby store owner about terrain and looking at some books I decided that I could make some hills and ruins out of stuff we already had around.

The hill was my first piece. It's made from foam sheathing. I carved it into hill like shapes then glued them together. Sand was used in place of the expensive texture paint that was recommended. Then came the paints to make it more "real".  Little bits of moss as bushes helped with the allusion.



The other piece is a ruined building....at least one corner of a building.

I had a lot of fun with this one. I used molding paste to give the heavy cardboard some stone-like texture then used some paint techniques to give it definition.  Again, little bits of moss as bushes helped with the realism.