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<td>Dave McCallum had a terrain making competition at his local
games stockist. He managed to win best in category for 40K and
best overall with this impressive ruin...and bagged himself a
new Land Raider plus some other goodies as a prize.</td>
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The only unfortunate thing was that part of the entry criteria was
that the terrain became the property of the shop, so these piccies
taken just minutes before he delivered it are all he has left.
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<td>The plywood base board dimensions are 2 foot square, with the
construction being mainly from the end packing from a computer
monitor. Part of the trick I have found in using poly packaging
is to sufficiently alter the original shape. The second story
was made using the section hacked away from the ground floor.
most of the other chunks are large broken off chunks of the same
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The whole piece was "painted" in watered down polyfilla
for texture, before a mix of small stones, ballast and sand were added
to give rubble.
Not readilly aparent from the photos is that thin wire was pushed
into each broken section and weathered rusty to look like the metal
support rods you get inside concrete. (Ive noted to use thicker stuff
next time).
External girders were made using the backing strip plastic of old
windscreen wipers. A few other odds and ends of small computer
componentry can be seen around the place.
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<td>Ground flock (from memory) is a mix of dark and lite green
fine ground railway modellers turf, sprinkled and set over a
brown undercoat. All paint is normal matt household paint (test
pots are brilliant and just soo cheap). I normally water mine
down to half paint half water.) The concrete was drybrushed a
lighter grey shade.</td>
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<td>To give depth to the water filled craters, the plywood at
these points was left smooth, then painted enchanted blue. With
the paint still wet, I started using green ink and swirled it
out to the edges to blend it. If it comes out too blue, just add
more green ink at the centre and swirl outwards. A quick coat of
gloss varnish kept it wet looking</td>
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The whole thing took about 2 weeks of solid evenings to complete.
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