Small Hill

By John ‘Scarab’ Salmond

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I am just making some simple terrain pieces for gaming at home. Why not take some pictures of it. This is made from some pink foam I picked up at Home Depot. I used a foam cutter to cut the piece out and shave the edges. Once the edges were cut out I use some 220 grit sand paper to smooth down the hills cut edges. On a couple of edges I wanted some obstacle (small cliffs) just to change things up a bit. I worked those with a small dental tool but I imagine you could do the same with a hobby knife. After this was complete I took some rocks and random rubble pieces and glued them to the foam with some white glue.



I should have did this when I attached every thing else but I didn’t. After looking at it I wanted more sand to be added for exposed earth.



After it was all dry it was now time to paint. I mixed some brown with a little bit of black, then added water to make it easier to apply and run into the crack in the rock.



The next step was to dry brush the rocks and sand. I used three different colors of brown. Medium to a light sand color as the final highlight. This is one of my standard methods for earth. Why go away from an easy thing. After the earth was done I painted the ruins a dark gray. I then did two lighter colors of gray as a dry brush.




I mixed three different colors of static grass and threw in some moss pieces for random texture. I applied white glue and pressed the static grass mixture onto it. I then flipped the terrain piece upside down and tapped the bottom to make the grass stand up and to shake off the extra.



This was fairly quick and easy to make. I need more terrain like this at home. We are starting to game here more and have painting nights. I hope you enjoy and can take something from this. If you have any question you can e-mail me or jump on the forum.

Later,

John Salmond…